James Bond\u2019s Aston Martin DB5 goes missing<\/h3>\n
One of the Aston Martin DB5\u2019s used in Goldfinger [at top], via, Mark van Seeters<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n When the words \u2018crime\u2019 and \u2018supercar\u2019 are used in the same sentence, how can you not imagine 007 trying to stop bad guys in whichever vehicle he has at his disposal? Perhaps his most famous was the Aston Martin DB5 that was first introduced in Goldfinger <\/em>starring Sean Connery. It was a gem of a car, equipped with everything from bullet-proof windows to an ejector seat and revolving number plates. With the launch of Goldfinger<\/em>, the DB5 immediately entered \u2018dream car\u2019 status, but where is the infamous auto that was so well displayed in the movie now?<\/p>\n Good question. Aston Martin actually gave EON productions (the producer of Goldfinger<\/em>) two 1964 Aston Martin DB5s to use for filming. One of the models, the one actually outfitted for the movie with all of the cool gadgets, became known as the \u2018Effects Car\u2019. Following the release of Goldfinger<\/em>, the Effects Car was returned to Aston Martin and it made promotional appearances for decades afterwards.<\/p>\n However, in 1997, the Effects Car was stolen from an airport hangar in Florida and no one has seen the car in over 17 years since. The insurance company\u2019s payout for the car was rumored to be around four million dollars. As for the second DB5 originally given to EON, it sits well preserved in a private Ohio car museum (as seen in the picture above).<\/p>\n More recently, Aston Martin officially confirmed that it has developed an exclusive DB10 model for the upcoming James Bond film Spectre<\/em><\/a><\/span>\u00a0(due for release on November 6, 2015). The car manufacturer is developing its all new DB10 specifically for the film, 50 years after first appearing in Goldfinger<\/em> with the DB5. Hopefully the DB10 will still be around in 2065 and not suffer the same fate as its ancestor.<\/p>\n This picture from Mail Online<\/a><\/span> shows the totalled Ferrari F50<\/em><\/p>\n This is a crazy story that begins with a con man named Tom Baker who had a penchant for stealing Ferrari\u2019s. Baker was an airline pilot and a pretty slick talker, managing to first get a North Carolina dealership to let him test drive a 1989 Ferrari 328 GTS that they never saw again and then later doing the same in Long Island with a 1985 Ferrari Testarossa.<\/p>\n In 2003, Baker walked into Algar Ferrari\/Maserati in Philadelphia, claiming he was the CEO of a California tech firm. He boasted that he was ready to make a down payment on an F50, providing that it met his performance criteria during a test drive.<\/p>\n The dealership eagerly handed over the keys and Baker was out the door, literally. He sped off with the F50 at 100 miles per hour and disappeared yet again, leaving Motors Insurance Group to pick up the $375,000 bill to reimbursed Algar for the stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n The car in question resurfaced in 2008, when FBI agents seized it from a Kentucky physician who bought it off Baker. When Baker was subsequently arrested, the F50 was placed in storage. Prior to his sentencing, two FBI agents allegedly attempted to move the Ferrari from one storage facility to another and in the process, ran the car into a bush and totalled the vehicle.<\/p>\n To this date, Motors Insurance Group continue to ask the Feds to repay the money it initially coughed up in 2003 and an explanation of why the two agents were driving it in the first place. The Department of Justice (DOJ), however, stands firm with a closed wallet. According to the DOJ, the Ferrari was being detained by the FBI for an investigation and they\u2019re in no way on the hook for any monies.<\/p>\n Where\u2019s the original F50 that was totalled by the FBI you ask? Good question. It was sold in 2012 to a dealership on the West Coast, who restored it to its full glory<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n Guy Fieri\u2019s stolen Gallardo was similar to this yellow 2008 model photographed by Quinn Ross Car LOVE<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Celebrity chef Guy Fieri received quite the surprise back in 2011 when he was informed that his 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder had been stolen from a San Francisco car dealership. The surprise grew somewhat larger within the ensuing months after a video was released of the theft, and the thief in action. In true Mission Impossible<\/em> style, the video depicted a 16-year-old male, Max Wade, abseiling into the dealership, cutting the vehicle\u2019s locks and driving off with the Lamborghini.<\/p>\n According to various reports on the matter, evidence shows Wade meticulously planned the heist and when the car was eventually found in a storage locker, it was retreived alongside\u00a0guns, disguises, cell phone jammers, police scanners, dismantled assault weapons and a full San Francisco police uniform. His computer history showed that he actively Googled: Lamborghinis, how to jam the \u2018Lojack\u2019 auto-theft prevention system and lock picking.<\/p>\n After the video became public, Wade earned the title of \u2018ninja teen\u2019, but was eventually arrested for his crime, along with attempted murder, in 2012. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.<\/p>\nA con man, a 1996 Ferrari F50 totalled by the FBI and a DOJ law suit<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nQuentin Tarantino\u2019s 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu turns up two decades after being stolen<\/h3>\n
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