James Bond’s Moon Buggy Can Be Yours for £500,000

Featured in the 1971 film “Diamonds Are Forever” and driven by Sean Connery’s James Bond during an intense action scene (see below), the rover has been around on the market for some time, changing hands several times. It will be hitting the auction block again next month, the Daily Mail reports, with a price tag guaranteed to leave you breathless: £500,000.

The downside, other than the exorbitant price tag: this rover was and never will travel on the surface of the moon.

“The iconic vehicle, which carries Bond from Willard Whyte's space center in a chase across the Nevada desert, is 13.5ft long, with a steel frame, aluminum paneling and a perspex dome. And though it might be lacking an ejector seat, it does at least boast two robot arms and a satellite dish,” the publication says.

The buggy was restored to its former glory in the 1990s after falling into serious disrepair, and will go on sale as part of a major Hollywood auction of James Bond memorabilia. “It is now being sold by a private collector at a US auction on September 25 and 26, alongside a space shuttle model from 1979's Moonraker, set to fetch £25,000,” the British publication further says.

If the moon buggy is too expensive for you, the auction includes cheaper items as well: four fake gold bars from “Goldfinger” at £2,000 a pop, Pierce Brosnan’s exploding pen in “Goldeneye” for £2,000, and a tiny missile launched from a cigarette in “You Only Live Twice” for £4,000.