I'm humbled posting in such company having almost - but not quite - a PP(H).
However the post on G-BAML is interesting and reminded me of a motoring journalists dinner I attended a few years back in Birmingham.
The 'Spy Who Loved Me' came up in conversation with a few chaps from Lotus when I explained how the Jet Ranger/Esprit scene in the movie kicked off a passion and resulted in my buying an Esprit at the tender age of 19 to the horror of my parents. (And 25 years later a 206 B3.)
The chap who I was speaking to happened to be none other than Roger Becker the stunt driver in the 1977 film. He'd been sent to Sardinia by Colin Chapman in 1976, since the original United Artists stunt driver hadn't driven a right hand drive mid engined supercar and was making a complete hash of it.
Becker recalled the scene where the Jet Ranger was hovering above the road as he rounded a sweeping bend. His exact words cannot be printed here but suffice it to say he had'nt expected Crewdson to be so low
