Corgi James Bond 007 Moon Buggy: Diamonds Are Forever

This corgi model was produced in 1997

It comes with a hand painted white metal figure of James Bond

Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 spy film and the seventh in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth and final Eon film to star Sean Connery, who returned to the role as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, having declined to reprise the role in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

The film is based on Ian Fleming's 1956 novel of the same name, and is the second of four James Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. The story has Bond impersonating a diamond smuggler to infiltrate a smuggling ring, and soon uncovering a plot by his old enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld to use the diamonds to build a space-based laser weapon. Bond has to battle his enemy for one last time, to stop the smuggling and stall Blofeld's plan of destroying Washington, D.C., and extorting the world with nuclear supremacy.

After George Lazenby left the series, producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli tested other actors, but studio United Artists wanted Sean Connery back, paying a then-record $1.25 million salary for him to return. The producers were inspired by Goldfinger; as with that film, Guy Hamilton was hired to direct, and Shirley Bassey performed vocals on the title theme song. Locations included Las Vegas, California, Amsterdam and Lufthansa's hangar in West Germany. Diamonds Are Forever was a commercial success, and received positive reviews upon initial release, but it retrospectively was met with criticism for its humorous camp tone. The film marked the final appearance of the SPECTRE organization (though not by name) in Eon's Bond films until the 2015 film of the same name.

Bond steals this moon buggy prototype in a moon landing simulation stage at Willard Whyte's space research lab in the Nevada desert, which has been turned into a secret weapon lab by Blofeld. It is well adapted to rocky grounds, one can't say the same about the cars chasing it.

During the filming the crew had to change the Moon Buggy's tires as they were not suited to the terrain and kept falling off. In fact, if you look closely at one of the scenes where one of the security guard vehicles crashes while chasing the moon buggy you can see one of the buggy's wheels roll into the lower left side of the frame.

The buggy was used in a promotional tour for the movie and afterwards fell into a state of disrepair on a backlot until it was rescued and restored by the publisher of 007 Magazine. It was on display at Planet Hollywood for several years and eventually purchased at auction in 2004 by the owner of Planet Hollywood.