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.
