The Ian Fleming Foundation is currently working on major restorations of two iconic film vehicles:
Tiffany’s Ford Mustang Mach 1 Boss 429 Cobra
In Diamonds Are Forever, 007 uses a Mustang Mach 1 to great effect to escape local law enforcement in a chase through the neon-lit streets of Las Vegas as well as sidewalks, and parking lots. The culmination of the chase sees James Bond drive into a narrow alley, only to flip the car onto two wheels and gracefully navigate the slender gap. The 351/429 Mach 1 Cobra was the perfect American muscle car for his first car chase on U.S. soil.
Sanchez’s Kenworth Aerodyne Model W900B Semi-Truck
In the thrilling finale of 1989’s Licence To Kill, a convoy of Kenworth trucks escapes from Franz Sanchez’s base of operations, laden with tankers full of petrol mixed with cocaine, with Bond in hot pursuit.
The sequence, filmed an hour’s drive from Mexicali on a remote winding mountain pass, sees the trucks being crashed, blown up, driven on their rear wheels through a fireball, and - in one memorable moment - flipped onto their side wheels by Bond to avoid a laser-guided missile.
After filming, the cab for the truck used for the two-wheel stunt ended up at a fire service training school in Oregon where it was used to train firefighters how to rescue people from a crashed semi-truck. It was later recognized and rescued by the Ian Fleming Foundation and is awaiting restoration.