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What would it be like to help work on and restore the actual James Bond vehicles used in the movies long before they go the public exhibits and shows, like Bond in Motion?   Well, we were invited to a work weekend to do exactly that!

THE WEEKEND

Dan and Tom recently were privileged to attend the Ian Fleming Foundation work weekend. This is one of the times that the Foundation spends working on its inventory, restoring the vehicles, and having a great time telling James Bond stories. It was a blast!

We’ll take you backstage and let you hear about how they get these vehicles and what they have to do to restore them so we can all see them in exhibits like Bond in Motion.

THE JAMES BOND VEHICLES

One of the vehicles we discuss is Goldfinger’s plane.  This is a huge and fascinating restoration job.
Steve Targosz discusses this massive project. Another one was one of the Kenworth trucks from LICENCE TO KILL.  Colin Clark walks us through this one. These are two that they are still restoring so you wouldn’t have seen them in a museum yet.

But, we also saw some vehicles that have been restored that we saw.  Leonard Johnson discusses getting
and restoring the fire engine from A VIEW TO A KILL. Colin Clark walks us through getting the plane Sanchez escapes in from LICENCE TO KILL and what shape it is in.

Plus, we talk about, Zao’s green Jaguar from DIE ANOTHER DAY, the helicopter from FROM RUSSIA WITH
LOVE, and lots more!

We’ve included audio clips in this episode from the people who make this happen.

GOING FORWARD

We will be releasing a video version of this episode on our YouTube Channel, Cracking the Code of Spy
Movies on June 30, 2023, so you see the videos and vehicles.

You can check out all of our podcast episodes on your favorite podcast app or on our
website. Our channel name is CRACKING THE CODE OF SPY MOVIES.

Ideas/Comments? Info@spymovienavigator.com

Website Episode Page: https://bit.ly/Restoring-James-Bond-Vehicles

For the launch of season 3 we’re in a safe pair of hands as we ride with Ostuni’s top and most satisfying Tuk Tuk tour guide, David 5-Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from Golapa, Ape Calessino Ostuni.

We learn some fascinating facts about Puglia’s città  bianca. Why the old town is built as it is, what the different color doors mean, and why some of those doors are so small (and it’s nothing to do with southern Italians being shorter than average).

The episode is recorded live as we go on tour around the old town with our favorite Tuk Tuk driver.

We paid for our tour and we also gave David 5-Star a big tip to show our appreciation for looking after us.

Be sure to take the tour when you visit Ostuni, it really is educational. Go Golapa and ask for David 5-Star as your guide (be sure to let him know you listened to the podcast). 

Golapa Ape Calessino facebook page has detail of their services.

Check out our blog for fuller detail on our David 5-Star Tuk Tuk tour experience.

Bruce Haxton had been travelling and living in Thailand for many years after having run tourism businesses in the region for well over a decade, when he happened upon the idea of talking his Thai friend into lending him his Tuk Tuk so Bruce could get out and explore more of Thailand.  What happened next, literally changed his life.  Bruce enjoyed such a positive experience, whereby his interactions with the locals were heightened every time he turned up to a new village in his Tuk Tuk.

When he returned from this trip, he was so overawed with the experience, he decided to set up a new company so that others could experience Northern Thailand in a more authentic way just as he had done.

I caught up with Bruce to find out more about Northern Thailand and why it’s best experienced from a Tuk Tuk in the Low Season…

This episode features Justin Herman, lead of the Emerging Citizen Technology program office for GSA's Technology Transformation Services. Herman talks about his transition from public affairs officer in the Air Force to social technologist, his passion for GSA's emerging tech missions, and how the arrival of the internet at his high school in a small town in New Hampshire led him to developing the school's first website and ultimately predicting the rise of social technologies. Plus, hear about Herman's recent 3,500 kilometer tuk-tuk race in India that he started and finished solo.