any idea how difficult it is to lay off that last line?

I used to hunt the muskrat.

I had that Aston Martin. In gold. It may well be lying in a box in my mother's storage. Chipped and dented with hours of hard play and frequent ejections. The coolest thing was, of course, the steel plate which popped up to deflect Bond's pursuers' bullets.

I was at an auction ten years ago where a sad suicide's two houses worth of pristine, in box, Dinkys and Corgis sold for $100.00s a pop. But, the man had a new in box James Bond Attache case. $15,000 then, Lord knows now.

My mother is still digging up dinkies from her garden where my brother and I used to play -- in the late 60s early 70s. Mom used to send us out to work over a piece of ground to build construction sites, gravel pits, and so forth. When we had turned over the group sufficiently, in went the plants.

Good news, folks. I have one of those original little Corgi cars too, minus the villian. But Corgi still makes a nifty model of the original, slightly larger, with more fun features to play with. It looks like the one in the picture above and probably is. Just bought one from 3000Toys.com for something like 15 bucks plus a few bucks postage-a steal!

Round about 1970, kids used to come from miles around Halifax just to play with my dinky car collection.

As per Dave, many are probably buried. Many more met a much more violent end in the smash-up derby ring.

I still have my James Bond Aston Martin DB5 (as pictured). Jay is right, the pop-up steel plate is sweet.

We had the James Bond car as well and, while the rear steel plate is something I would like to have installed in my car, it was the red tyre ripping tri-spikes that came out of the rear hub caps that I feared most.