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ben68 ◊ 2005-11-16 20:24	1962 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, personal car of "Cubby" Broccoli himself (Bond films producer).
antp ◊ 2005-11-16 20:56	The car goes in a lake in the end, was it also his car for this scene ?
LH ◊ 2005-12-17 13:20	No it was another rolls royce
juergensmuda ◊ 2005-12-30 16:46	This was Cubbys own SILVER CLOUD II which could be seen driven around in London with his personal registrationplates "CUB1". If you watch carefully you'll see in the film that the car which is sinking does have handles to open the rear windows whether this car has electricaly operated windowlifters.
davidecloud ◊ 2006-05-27 17:49	The car is a Bentley S 1 chassis n° B287FD with Rolls-Royce radiator grille, built in 1958. This car goes in a lake in the end.
antp ◊ 2006-05-27 20:48	The car in the lake may be a Bentley, but you are sure that the one used for other scenes was a Bentley? I would believe what juergensmuda said...
juergensmuda ◊ 2006-09-17 09:44	As said, there were two cars taken during filming. The one which went into the water and another one, seen here, a Silver Cloud II, owned by Cubby himself. -- Last edit: 2006-09-17 09:50:47
wickey ◊ 2006-10-10 19:34	plate 354 HYK
kingoftheringman ◊ 2006-10-11 21:14	antp wrote The car goes in a lake in the end, was it also his car for this scene ? It was somewhere near the beginning of the film.
antp ◊ 2006-10-11 23:24	I was meaning "in the end of the scenes where that car was used"
juergensmuda ◊ 2006-11-10 09:42	However, there have been two cars used and the one shown in the mainpic is the Silver Cloud II which is the one once owned by the late Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli himself for his personal use in London. Posobly, the second car may have been a converted Bentley with an Rolls grille, but who knows it or can confirm as a fact except for the one bought it for the production? So finaly we are all sure that the car pictured above in the mainpic is a Cloud II
G-MANN ◊ 2008-10-11 20:38	Driven by Sir Godfrey Tibbet (Patrick McNee) who is posing as Bond's chauffeur. He is killed by May Day while taking it through a car wash. Zorin and May Day push the car into a lake with Bond inside, but Bond survives by sucking the air from one of the tyres, waiting underwater until they leave.
AlexPal ◊ 2010-03-24 23:05	That specific Rolls royce, with the registration CUB 1 can be seen in Thunderball too, on the right of the car lineup outside of Shrublands, the clinic where Bond "recovers" at the beginning of the movie.
G-MANN ◊ 2010-03-24 23:09	That's right, it's listed here: /vehicle.php?id=56399
rjluna2 ◊ 2010-03-24 23:57	It still exist... The vehicle details for CUB 1 are: Date of Liability 01 02 2011 Date of First Registration 24 08 1962 Year of Manufacture 1962 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 6230CC CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type Petrol Export Marker Not Applicable Vehicle Status Licence Not Due Vehicle Colour SILVER
davidecloud ◊ 2010-12-27 11:31	In the whole movie has been always used the car registered 354HYK (chassis n° B287FD), which is a Bentley S 1 with Rolls-Royce radiator grille. A car registered CUB1 (chassis n° SAE553 and Cubby Broccoli personal car) never appeared in the movie. I have a photo of Broccoli's SAE553 taken in London and it has parking/blinking Marchal lights on centre pillars, they don't appear in the car used for movie. So, in my opinion, they used B287FD only.
mitsubishi4 ◊ 2011-09-17 18:46	honda5 wrote It looks like he is polishing it. thats because he is -- Last edit: 2012-04-04 16:35:25
dsl ◊ 2011-09-17 19:57	mitsubishi4 wrote thats because he is With what? One of these new invisible cloths?
dsl ◊ 2011-09-17 20:13	DVLA details for 354 HYK (as Bentley) are: Date of Liability 01 02 1992 Date of First Registration 17 11 1958 Year of Manufacture Not Available Cylinder Capacity (cc) 4887CC CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type Petrol Export Marker Not Applicable Vehicle Status Unlicensed Vehicle Colour BLUE As far as I can tell the xxx HYK series was never issued in period, with xxx GYK being Nov 63 - March 64. I guess that 354 HYK was therefore a re-registration sometime in the 70s or 80s - interesting that it seems to have survived its swim and carried on for another 7 years.
bentleydriver ◊ 2011-10-03 13:40	On the movie, you see the "driving" car is a serie I with optional electric windows. The car that goes in the lake is an other S.1 (manual windows). -- Last edit: 2012-10-15 13:47:44
Robi ◊ 2016-07-07 12:46	-- Last edit: 2019-09-08 22:45:56
Danzie ◊ 2018-05-27 19:47	354 HYK - Annoyingly I cannot find the article now, but it has been said that this car, HYK, was exported in the early 1990's, and now is part of the massive car collection of The Sultan of Brunei, who bought it as it was a model of car needed for his collection, not bought for it's James Bond prominence.
dsl ◊ 2018-05-27 20:42	Robi wrote This seems to be the only footage with Michelin branding on a tyre. It's clearly absent on many of the other captures.
rondemarse ◊ 2020-10-28 15:14	Wondering why this was settled as a Bentley S1 and not the Silver Cloud II that so many people claim? davidecloud mentioned the "parking/blinking Marchal lights on centre pillars" as evidence that this is NOT Cubby Broccoli's Silver Cloud ... but doesn't the featured photo at the top (and several others) exhibit those exact lights? It seems likely that a different car went in the lake - probably the Bentley - but why do we doubt that this is usually the Rolls?
dsl ◊ 2020-10-28 20:49	@rondemarse - I think the clue seen in several thumbs is the way the top corners of the grille line up with the bonnet side creases - the RR grille was taller than the Bentley, so bodging an RR grille into a Bentley creates a stepped misalignment.
rondemarse ◊ 2020-10-28 23:35	@dsl I'm not seeing it. Not doubting it - just literally not seeing it (the difference compared to other photos of Silver Clouds). If it is, in fact, NOT Cubby Broccoli's famous Rolls that is featured in most of the film, all of James Bond fandom seem to have the wool pulled over their eyes. They have created diecast versions of it, featured it in car shows, and Cubby's chauffeur even seems to corroborate it in his biography: Link to "www.handh.co.uk" https://www.amazon.com/Catching-Bullets-Memoirs-Bond-Fan/dp/0956950574 Link to "commons.wikimedia.org" How certain are you that they've all got it wrong?

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1958 Bentley S1 with Rolls-Royce grille [B287FD]

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