James Bond's car ("B549 WUU") in the 1987 film, The Living Daylights (the first of the two films starring Timothy Dalton) is somewhat confusing. At the beginning of the film, the car is a V8 Vantage Volante (convertible), complete with Vantage badges. The actual car used in these scenes was a preproduction Vantage Volante owned by Aston Martin Lagonda chairman, Victor Gauntlett. Later, the car is supposedly fitted with a hardtop ("winterised") at Q Branch. However, these scenes actually feature a pair of non-Vantage V8 saloons retrofitted with the same number plate and Vantage badges as the car in the beginning, among other "optional extras" like spiked tyres, skis, lasers, and missiles. Clearly, the car was intended to be seen as a V8 Vantage Volante, however.
