One-Off Rolls Royce ‘Goldfinger’ Phantom Has A Real Car-Shaped Gold Bar On The Console

Long-wheelbase Phantom Extended is packed with 007-related details including a map of Fort Knox on the picnic tables

• Rolls Royce is marking 60 years of the James Bond movie Goldfinger with a one-off Phantom Extended.
  
  
• The yellow paint matches the color of Auric
  
  
• Goldfinger’s 1937 Phantom III Sedanca de Ville.
  Other Goldfinger-inspired touches include a real gold bar on the console, a map of Fort Knox on the picnic tables, and gold linings for the front and rear console boxes.

Rolls-Royce cars have appeared in a dozen James Bond adventures, but there’s only one that really matters, and it’s Auric Goldfinger’s classic yellow Phantom. To celebrate 60 years since the release of Goldfinger, Rolls Royce has produced a special Phantom that’s full of fun movie references.

Auric’s car was a 1937 Phantom III Sedanca de Ville whose distinctive yellow paint has been replicated on the new long-wheelbase Phantom Extended. Like the old-timer, the modern Goldfinger car contrasts that yellow paint with a black roof and hood and even mimics the look of the pre-war model’s black and silver wheels and hubcaps. The iconic grille retains its regular chrome finish but the Spirit of Ecstasy mascot is plated in 18-carat gold.



It's a modern tribute to the original Rolls from the movie color wise.

It’s the crazy interior details, however, that really make this one-off build stand out. Details like the illuminated 18-carat gold bar shaped as a Phantom speedform and housed in a secret compartment on the console. Or the gold finish inside the front and rear console storage boxes and glovebox, the last of those bearing a Goldinger quote from the movie about how he’s always been “in love with its colour, its brilliance, its divine heaviness.”

The door sill plates are meant to look like gold bars, there’s a gold golf club in the boot, a reference to the one Goldfinger uses in a game with Bond early in the movie, and even the plate for the VIN – which ends in 007 – is made from 24-carat gold.

Other neat easter eggs include the fictional map of Fort Knox on the picnic tables marked out in 22-carat gold inlay, the hand-drawn map on the dashboard showing the topography of the Furka Pass, and a starlight headliner replicating the position of the stars as they were on the last day of filming on the pass in July 1964.

Rolls Royce has even managed to secure AU1, the registration plate worn by the movie’s Phantom, and as anyone who can still remember their school chemistry will know, a reference to the chemical symbol for gold. No price has been given for the project but the brand says the one-off build has already been delivered to a “significant” marque collector in the UK.

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Tacky. Looks like shit

It's for people with more money than brains and whose taste is in their mouth.

"A Real Car-Shaped Gold Bar On The Console"

FFS

Don't forget the Courvoisier. No need for a glass. Just swig it right out of the bottle.

Ugh.

They should have just remade AG’s Phantom resto-mod style - with modern working bits on the classic chassis. THAT would have been something.

-Rob

I have long considered Rolls Royce to be the epitome of class. Sadly, they stepped on themselves this time. The color scheme works in Goldfinger, with the older car. Here with a modern car, not so much. Too much tacky interior crap.

Goldfinger remains one of my favorite Bond movies -- a bit goofy in today's age, but still fun to watch. I feel that RR just took a tacky way to grab some extra bucks.

A favorite Goldfinger scene is where the laser is getting close to slicing Bond at his crotch.
Bond -- Do you expect me to talk?
Goldfinger -- No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.

The author lost me at mention of "hubcaps."

Call me skeptical, but I'm pretty sure those aren't hubcaps.

That said, I think yellow-and-black is not a pretty combination (rotten banana, anyone?), but I'll give the builders tons of credit for the study and effort that went into the build.

It's a one-off, and that's... well... a good thing.

How much will they give me in trade for my Ford Fusion?

It looks like shit.

They should have made it for a Proctologist and named it Coldfinger.
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pass the Grey Poupon...

It might have a niche market in the Pittsburgh area. The Rooney family would probably snatch up a few just for their publicity use.

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The author lost me at mention of "hubcaps."

Call me skeptical, but I'm pretty sure those aren't hubcaps.

Actually, I think the disc wheels on the new version do have small floating hubcaps in the center of the disc.

A fair point, sir.

'tis very confusing, I'll admit.

From the comments:

“There is "money". There is "F You Money". And then there is "Beyond F You Money". This is beyond that level.”

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Tacky. Looks like shit

It's for people with more money than brains and whose taste is in their mouth.

"A Real Car-Shaped Gold Bar On The Console"

FFS

Don't forget the Courvoisier. No need for a glass. Just swig it right out of the bottle.

The gold bar is probably hollow. Has to be. Prob just plated. Prob hollow and plated, has to be. What fool would mount a solid gold bar. Good lord.

From the Rolls Royce website:

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Inside, a hidden vault in the centre console conceals an illuminated solid 18-carat gold bar, shaped as a Phantom ‘Speedform.’ A stylised miniature of the motor car, it celebrates the fusion of artistry, craftsmanship, and cinematic inspiration.

Gold Bar by kpkina, on Flickr

Map by kpkina, on Flickr

Putter by kpkina, on Flickr

That's nice and all, but do the fenders and grill come off so they can be melted down to recover the gold they were cast from??

when you have so much money and nothing to spend it on It would be fun. I think I would use it for my new job as a uber driver.

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Originally posted by BurtonRW:
Ugh.

They should have just remade AG’s Phantom resto-mod style - with modern working bits on the classic chassis. THAT would have been something.

-Rob

I have to admit, this is what I was hoping for, this modern version is just a standard RR with silly paint job and a a lot of tacky add on features that really have little to do with the movie.

Good thing its a 1 of 1.