40 years on, James Bond`s rotating number plates hit the gadget market

Remember James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger and Thunderball? The one that had the rotating license plates?

Well, we’d think faux-spy-tech might have evolved into something more like programmable LCD license plates, but some Hong Kong street racers are totally representing the OG Bond with radar detectors and rotating license plates that are triggered by a red button next to the gear shift (what else would it be?) - reports EnGadget.

Too bad the HK po-po got fed up and engaged in a sting operation that caught fourteen of modded cars. See? If they’d only followed Q’s advice: “You see the gear lever here? Now, if you take the top off, you will find a little red button. Whatever you do, don’t touch it.”

Thanks to `Goldeneye` for the alert.

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