When a small business owner bought a storage container in a blind auction for $100 he hoped he might be able to double or even triple his money by selling its contents. But inside he discovered one the world's most legendary film cars - and is now set to make at least 10,000 times what he paid for the container.
James Bond's Lotus Esprit submarine car, which featured in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me, is going up for auction in London where it is expected to reach $1million.
Its owner, who has chosen to stay anonymous, found the car after buying the storage container in Long Island in 1989. It is believed the Lotus was left in storage by the production company which paid for the container for 10 years. But when the payment ran out and nobody came to collect it, it was put up for sale. The man who bought it earns a 'very modest' living through his business which rents out construction tools.
He did not recognise the car, which is not roadworthy, for what it was as he had reportedly never seen a Bond film at the time. When he pulled the covers off the car and found it had no wheels and a dented roof, he was less than thrilled with his buy. But as he drove the car home on the back of a truck, other drivers who recognized the vehicle radioed him to tell him what it was.
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