With a license to drive and $4 million, you can buy James Bond's Aston Martin from 'Goldfinger'

You won’t need a license to kill – just a license to drive.

It’s Bond, James Bond’s 1965 Aston Martin DB5, to be exact.

And RM Sotheby's, the official auction house for Aston Martin, will be selling one of just three surviving "James Bond" cars – outfitted with M16 superspy guns and all – at a Monterey, California, sale in August.

With an estimated valued between $4 million and $6 million, only the most serious car collectors and Bond fans will bid on this piece of history.

RM Sotheby's will be selling one of just three surviving ‘James Bond’ cars—outfitted with M16 superspy guns and all—at its Monterey sale in August.
RM Sotheby's will be selling one of just three surviving ‘James Bond’ cars—outfitted with M16 superspy guns and all—at its Monterey sale in August.

“No other car in history has played a more important leading role on film and in pop culture,” says Barney Ruprecht, a car specialist with RM Sotheby’s.

The Aston Martin is most famous for its appearance alongside Sean Connery in “Goldfinger,” the third movie in the James Bond series. All 13 of its Bond modifications are fully-functioning, including a Browning .30 caliber machine gun in each fender, wheel-hub mounted tire-slashers, smoke screen dispensers, revolving license plates and more, says RM Sotheby’s.

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The car is also equipped with a telephone in the driver’s side door and a hidden compartment that can store several weapons.

Offered for sale in 1969, the DB5 was originally purchased by collector Lord Anthony Bamford. The Smokey Mountain Car Museum in Tennessee then bought it and made the Bond car the museum’s centerpiece for 35 years.

All 13 of the modifications made for its Bond-debut are fully-functioning, including a Browning .30 caliber machine gun in each fender, wheel-hub mounted tire-slashers, smoke screen dispensers, revolving license plates and more.
All 13 of the modifications made for its Bond-debut are fully-functioning, including a Browning .30 caliber machine gun in each fender, wheel-hub mounted tire-slashers, smoke screen dispensers, revolving license plates and more.

Switzerland-based Roos Engineering has fully restored the Aston Martin, chassis No. 2008/R. In over 50 years, the car has had only three private owners.

The Bond DB5 will be displayed at RM Sotheby’s in North America this summer before auction day in mid-August.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: With a license to drive and $4 million, you can buy James Bond's Aston Martin from 'Goldfinger'