You Too Can Own James Bond\'s Aston Martin---Some Assembly Required

You Too Can Own James Bond’s Aston Martin—Some Assembly Required

What would inspire someone to assemble his first Lego kit in decades? Bond, James Bond. Nearly 1,300 pieces (and 15 hours) later, a miniature Aston Martin DB5 is ready to eject a villain

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I’VE ALWAYS DREAMED of having a project car in the garage. Something friends and I tinker with on the weekends as we drink beers, hats backward, staring into the engine and making excuses for its inadequacies. “Probably the exhaust manifold,” I’d say, not really knowing what that means.

This weekend, sans garage (or friends), I more-or-less achieved my fantasy, putting the final touches on an automotive classic I’ve lusted after for 30 years: James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5. Debuting in 1964’s “Goldfinger,” it is the definitive...