Before
After
photographs/ Graham Rye www.007magazine.com
Some time ago Wotan blogged about the fascinating design history of his 007 Moon Buggy toys by Corgi. Many actual movie vehicle props, on which our favourite die-cast were based, ended up forgotten and forlorn when the cameras stopped rolling and the Moon Buggy was no exception, finding itself a complete wreck in someones field! Fortunately 007 superfan Graham Rye rescued the Buggy and restored it to its former brilliant Diamonds Are Forever glory, which you can read about on his fabulous website. I asked him if I could post his amazing before and after photographs above, to which he replied:
Hello Woodsy,
Thank you for
asking.
Please credit the two
images as: PHOTOGRAPHS/GRAHAM RYE www.007magazine.com
Please send me a link
to the page when they’re live. There’s a lot of
great fun stuff on your Blog pages, certainly takes me
back! Thank you for the
kind words about the 007 MAGAZINE website. One of the underwater
Lotus Esprits is currently on display in the exhibition ’Bond In Motion. 50
vehicles. 50 Years.’ at Beaulieu.
You can view our
coverage of it here.
Thanks again for getting in
contact.Best regards
G r a h a m R y e
Editor, Designer, Photographer, Publisher
0 0 7 M A G
A Z I N E
5 comments:
Moon Buggy resurrection! What a precious task beautifully executed.
Some years ago browsing the web I came across some sorry photos of 2001: A Space Odyssey space pod, in a derelict state in somebody's backyard (or backlot). Anyone got the link? I hope someone did the same restoration to surviving 2001 props as well.
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A follow-up, found some pictures online, of the 2001 space station (Warning! Not for the faint-hearted, myself included...)
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/faq/html/spacestation.html
I once owned a Citroen BX19 GTI in white with the rear spoiler and in my more aspergic moments fancied it might pass for a poor man's underwater Lotus!
Youth huh! H
It's a shame that these things happen to some of filmdom's most iconic props. Fortunately many of them do eventually get restored.
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