LONDON, July 26: A Lotus Esprit car which converts into a submarine, as driven by spy James Bond in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me, was sold on Saturday for 28,000 pounds (46,500 dollars).Another Lotus used by Agent 007 in the movie For Your Eyes Only went for 22,000 pounds at the auction held by maker Lotus at the Silverstone racing circuit, north of London. Both cars were bought by Peter Nelson, a 40-year-old Briton who claims to have the biggest collection of Bond cars in the world in the museum he has opened in Keswick, northern England.
An avid Bond fan, Nelson nevertheless does not turn his up nose at other cinema heroes.
His latest acquisitions will join a Batmobile and an old Ford car used in Laurel and Hardy films.
The white Lotus he bought from the film The Spy Who Loved Me is particularly remembered for being driven by actor Roger Moore off a cliff and turning into a mini-submarine, complete with propellers and rocket launchers.
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