The Bond movies are slick cinematic comic books of varying quality, but again, not one of the cars in any of them, 1962-2021, 27 movies, have anything to do with those in Ian Fleming's novels, underscoring a society better equipped to manage explosions and nonsensical car chases than literary potboilers. Even as junior high kids, the movies' primary target audience other than adult Walter Mitties, we wondered how any car's rear axle could slide out with razor-studded end and slice another car while the wheel stayed on. Or how a Ford Falcon Ranchero could haul over 3 1/2 tons of compacted Lincoln Continental and gold.
Those wanting a spy movie closer to reality might watch 1965's award-winning The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, or wanting believable intrigue with real cars, 1973's terrific Day of the Jackal. There are reasons Patrick McGoohan, the series' first choice, declined.
So, is Hagerty catering to serious car buffs, or just more me-too pop culture fanboydom?
If the former, where are the various Bentleys Ian Fleming well described, Felix Leiter's "low-slung Cord saloon" and Studillac?