Now, it's the largest collection of Bond vehicles ever assembled under one roof. And it's proved so popular the exhibition at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu has been extended to coincide with the DVD release of Skyfall.
Martin Dowse cast his Golden Eye over the collection and spoke to Tim Egerton from The National Motor Museum
The National Motor Museum in Beaulieu has built a life-size eight-lane Scalextric track with Bond-style Aston Martins to race round it. Beaulieu is hosting the world's largest James Bond vehicle exhibition, with high-speed bikes and cars straight from the set of Skyfall.
The Bond in Motion exhibition features 50 of the most iconic Bond cars to celebrate 50 years of 007.
VIDEO: Captain Pete Barnes, pilot of the crashed helicopter, describes his role in Bond films. This item was shot in 2002.
Skyfall director Sam Mendes has revealed he initially had doubts about Daniel Craig being cast as James Bond.
Read the full storyIan Fleming, the writer of the original James Bond novels lived at St Margarets near Dover in Kent. The codename 007 was actually the number of the bus from Dover in Kent to London.
Ian Fleming died in 1964. Since his death authors including Kingsley Amis and Sebastian Faulks have penned James Bond novels.
William Boyd who wrote 'A Good Man in Africa' is to write the next James Bond novel. He has not revealed the plot but says the book will be set in 1969.
