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In 1964, the silver Aston Martin DB5 that actor Sean Connery drove in the James Bond film "Goldfinger" was sold to a private collector for about $15,500. It was tripped out with a variety of prop gadgets such as machine guns and tire-shredders, various reports said.
The original owner later sold it to another collector, Anthony Pugliese III, for about $324,000. Pugliese stored it in a hangar with his other cars at the Boca Raton Airport Authority in Florida.
"On the night of June 19, 1997, someone broke in and stole it," Coates said. "From what we can tell, the airport hangar had some molding on it and they used a saw to get in and cut the padlock and they disabled the alarm and used chains and cables to load it on a flatbed truck.”
The car was reportedly so heavy it had to be dragged from its axles. Tire marks left the only clue — that it was possibly taken to an area where it was loaded onto a cargo plane, gone for good.
"The people who had the car stolen, hired private investigators to find the car and every few years there’s been sightings," Coates said. "Four weeks after it was stolen, there were multiple sightings, but it’s never been seen again."
The car is currently valued at $10 million
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