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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) -- James Bond's car -- really, the James Bond car -- will be going up for auction in January. The 1964 Aston Martin DB5 driven by the character James Bond in the movie s "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball" will be sold to the highest bidder at R M Auctions' Vintage Motor Cars in Arizona to be held in Phoenix, Arizona , on January 20, 2006. The car is one of four created for the films and for promotional use. The car has a variety of optional equipment for both offensive and defensiv e purposes. An oil-slick ejector squirts out from the left-rear ligh t cluster and a smoke-screen system is located next to the car's exhaust . The license plate revolves to display any of three different plates and t he car still has its hydraulic ramming bumpers. In the interest of safety, the ejector seat has been replaced with a stan dard, non-ejecting passenger seat. RM Auctions would not comment on the car's estimated value. A 1928 Cadillac built for the Chicago gangster Al Capone includes some si milar features. It, too, has a smoke screen device and it's bullet-proof , with steel-plating reinforcing the car body and with windows more than an inch thick. The back window folds down to facilitate the use of firearms. The car is painted in the same color scheme as Chicago police cars of the time and it is equipped with a siren and flashing police lights. The car was seized by the US Treasury Department and is said to have be en used by President Franklin Roosevelt for a short time. The car is decorated with 18 pistols -- 12 large ones and six small ones -- as well as 547 silver dollars, 12 silver horseshoes and 17 sterling s ilver horse heads.
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