The Aston Martin DB 5 # 261 made Corgi the dominant company in the die-cast toy market in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Aston was released in October 1965 and became a huge hit with children. To turn the subtitles on or off in your language in the movie, please press C on the computer or the three dots on the mobile phone in the movie.
In the first year of production, 2.5 million copies were sold. It was full of features and a miniature work of engineering genius. Most of the diecast cars at the time (especially the Dinky cars) had very few (if any) gimmicks or features. The Aston Martin had a sunroof, catapult seat, bulletproof tailgate, and telescopic bumpers. Including the ejected passenger, it was the only toy everyone wanted for Christmas 1965.
The victim of the packing of all these elements was the spring suspension "Glidematic" - instead, a plastic suspension was used. A pity as it was a weak point 261. With age and use, the suspension cracked or damaged.
The DB5 from the movie was silver, Corgi painted his model golden. The silver paint Corgi originally proposed looked too much like zinc metal. Not having enough time to find a suitable paint by the models' release date, Corgi painted it gold in reference to the title of the movie "Goldfinger".
Meetoy has improved the livery of the preliminary model. The Aston Martin No. 270 was equipped with even more functions and was silver in color. All functions from the 261 model remained, but in addition, the license plates rotated - as in the movie - and a pair of spikes was added to the rear wheels to destroy the enemy's tires
My model had all the features of a heavily used toy. The suspension was cracked, the tires were missing, some of them were out of this model. The plastic parts of the launcher were broken. Thanks to my friend from Switzerland, I was able to make a copy of the missing passenger and to replenish the launcher that was not working. To complete the whole, I also made a box compatible with the first version. Thank you for watching the movie, I publish videos with the repair of cars on Tuesdays and Saturdays.