Lotus Esprit turbo 1000mile drive to Cortina to re-live the Bond movie 'For Your Eyes Only' 

So well stated...

@@newbeginnings8566 agreed. 👍🏻

@Joe Home Just think twice before posting nonsense

@@milesfarrimond2445 It's an old video, Pillock.

@@milesfarrimond2445 As a subscriber you might have noticed that Harry was pretty strict about lockdown and didn't even drive featured cars outside of his backyard. So you are just overreacting for all the wrong reasons. There is a video "1000mile Euro-trip" from January and this Cortina detour was obviously part of the trip.

Ford right ? ;) 🇺🇸😎🏎

@@audimetallica Ford Cortina Mk 3

Ha ;-)

In 1982 I took my mates to see the movie at the drive-in in my dad’s Peugeot 504, and was excited to see two 504s chasing Bond’s 2CV down the (Greek) mountain. This was just after the white Lotus exploded, so Bond grabbed a lift with the girl.

My dad had an estate one in red when I was a kid. Must have been 1982, one of his first company cars.

The Lotus driver had to come along the Italian coast and nor through the dolomites to Cortina because back in those days there was so much snow ! Now there is nothing.

That is exactly what I was thinking.

Brownalebelly Thanks for letting me know. I’ve changed the thumbnail to see if it makes a difference as vid wasn’t getting the initial views I expected, so maybe you weren’t alone..

@@harrysgarage Wow! Harry read my post and wrote to me. I feel honoured. Please keep up the great work.

No help on the ski rack but Lotus did put me in touch with Dave Minter and supplied some of the period photos.

My brother and I worked on The Spy Who Loved Me he worked in Special Effects and drove the motorcycle sidecar pod that blew up the bedding truck plus assisted in all the vehicle effects. I was the transport manager for the catering dept. Drove out to Sardinia from Pinewood and helped cater for the chase scenes, flew back to London and ram rodded a 2nd convoy out to Venice for the crossing to Alexandria for the Egyptian scenes. I have spent 7 years in Egypt working on construction projects, of course the 1st visit was the most fun and having to spend time with Roger Moore, Barbara Bach/Star and Richard Kiel. Even assisted Cubby Broccoli cook a meal for the entire crew in The Valley of the Kings 500 miles down the River Nile. PS: The vegetable Broccoli is named after Cubby's father or Grandfather. For Your Eyes Only Ken my brother had the job of preparing the 2 CVs for the Corfu scenes, there were 5 cars in all one kept standard as the Pretty Car. The other 4 had different equipment added, an arrester hook the catch the car on the downward chase through the olive grove. They were fitted with larger 4 cylinder GS engines, roll cages etc. At the premier Ken drove a stunt man and his girlfriend to the cinema and did a hand brake turn and deposited them at the front door.

@@TheByard Great story behind some great films - thanks for sharing!

The 2cv scene was shot in Spain not in Corfu

I've always loved them too.. but I had a friend who owned one. He paid cash in full for it, but he always joked that he "Got it for $20K down and easy-to-make payments of $1000 a month for life". Heh. And I'm not bagging on exotic ownership costs. I own a 355, so I fully embrace the pain.

Harry is the best by far on RU-vid for any real automotive reviews! Thanks Harry and please go on for at least another decade! Best regards from Austria, Gerhard!

Grandfather of Car Media, considering how long he’s been with EVO

houseofwine, well said. It’s what we’re all thinking.

Nicholas Todd, indeed, Harry’s been around. Inclcuding the artic circle in a white Rolls 😃

Even Gerhard Berger uses Harry as his goto for all things automotive on RU-vid.

It is a timeless design and what does blow my mind about the Esprit is it had a 28 yr production run which is unheard of and Lotus improved on the Esprit every couple of years, bigger engines, better transmissions and gear boxes and they did tweak the backend a bit. Lotus is the BEST driver enthusiast car company

Many thanks. When I watched For Your Eyes Only prior to doing this trip, I'd forgotten how much I bloody loved it! Much more fun and entertaining than recent Bonds, plus Roger Moore plays it so well, with snippets of humour that are completely absent from Bond films today.

@@harrysgarage Totally agree. For your eyes only has this nice "stripped down" approach compared to Moonraker before. Little to no gimmicks, but some of the best shots and scenes in James Bond history, including the Meteora in the end. Now off to Autoscout24 to do some Esprit window-shopping, thanks Harry....my better half's gonna kill me.

You name it all, but you forgot stunning young beauty Melina 😂😂😂👍

@@houseofwine7704 and BARBARA BACH as Major Amasova ........stunning Woman .For your Eyes only , i was 13years old and sneaked into the cinema , cause it was only allowed up to the age of 16.Thinking back to this movie i think it was so special to see it at the age of 13 ,that it must have made this impression to me that i still remember today hom i felt during and after the movie .

Harry's garage There was the typical Moore humour, but there was a much more serious tone to this one, the opening sequence is quite harrowing. Lots to like (Topol was brilliant) and certainly one of my favourite 007 films. I know this is blasphemy, but I actually quite liked the bronze Esprit.

and put them in magazines to make a lot of extra cash when he flips it. LOL. The old saying is true: Money brings money.

That is why he can afford the supercars 👍🏼

@@GenaF True - and creating a very succesful magazine :-)

The skis attached to the back would totally wipe out the 40cL saving.

Well, when I held that "100 ottani" pistol at Cortina's Eni station, my thoughts were pretty similar to Harry's :-)

Nothing like a good pandemic lockdown to keep those roads nice and quiet, and to drive down the cost of fuel ! No this is surely not being filmed this May ? I love cars, I really do...But I love people more. And the mountains and the scenery aren't going away...so, please respect the need for staying home at this time !

Yes but this was in 1962 :-)

How about Phu Yuck? (edit 74)

@@barrettus "Phu Yuck?!"

@@PieAndChips lol ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uoQgKAb16nY.html

I was in Aix and turned in the rental because the parking lot has not come of age in France et al

Thanks for the support but this is what I'd be doing if I did retire anyway!

@@harrysgarage Just a pity you're not reviewing the 2021 version of the Esprit.

Harry would make a good Q....

He has a license to chuff

shaken but not stirred !!!

Licence to drive

The Stig Licensed to plough!

Well done, just find three more and you've got a full set!

@@harrysgarage sadly the chunk missing out this one reminds where the others and the rest of the car ended up

I think you'll find that these era Esprit's didn't have dump valves. My (later model) 1989 Chargecooled SE definitely didn't. Some owners fitted aftermarket ones on their cars for the reasons you said.

@@ImperrfectStranger Maybe it has a afterwards installed one then, I just reflected him describe the sound it made when he changed gear. I know some cars do not have one. I had a Citroën xantia tct and it did not have one. It probably depends how much boost the engine is designed for and the diameter of the compressor intake. A larger intake daimter will probably bleed of pressure easyer.

@@habbybud Spud, let me know if you see one in the video. At one point, the cameraman shows a shot of the top of the engine. The plumbing looks stock.

@@ImperrfectStranger just because the plumbing looks stock dose not equate to a dump Vale not being afterinstalled. You might not see it. I'll watch the clip again. Cheers!

@@ImperrfectStranger Nope! Couldn't see one.

Paolo 74 was the “diving” a Freudian slip or a coy reference to the submarine feature of the film car? Either way, well done! Ciao!

Indeed 😃 As The living daylight was mostly produced in Austria. Actually near Cortina, Just over the Austriam border in the nature region called WEISSENSEE lake.

Oui et oui! (Just in French?)

Roger yes, car no. The S1 in the spy who loved me is the best bond car.

PandaPapa146 That’s why Q Branch and Eon Productions repainted in Bronze when it was “put back together”

I always wondered why it wasn’t white as it seemed a bit of a sore thumb for a secret agent.

@@lotusgroup123 whoosh

Never heard of the Murena. What an absolute beauty.

I very nearly bought one back in the 90s.

racialist!

Silver birch (and that olive green dbs from ohmss, forgot the actual name of that colour) want to have a word with you.

I thought Harry was being a baddie, momentarily - doing a Dominic Cummings - but the snow was a bit of a giveaway. Although 'For your eyes only' was made in 1981, the styling of the Lotus Esprit and the Roger Moore connection gives it a 1970s feel - in the best possible way, of course. Harry was doing a pretty good Bond impression too - shaken not stirred.

@@FenderUsa calm down. White for bond black for baddies.

James Bond should remain an English guy. END OF

The world is a better place with a dark red interior 🤣👍

@alanrtment porter Geezer in Luton who mod's cars

“And yea, the seats shall have tartan inserts, and lo, they were thus. Amen”

AHAHAHAA!

@@granblogismo You would say that😁. GREAT VIDEO