MI5 on the lookout for automobile mechanics to soup up motors for real-life James Bonds
Spy chiefs are recruiting mechanics to soup up motors for real-life James Bonds.
The full-time £35,952 to £40,629-a-year role for MI5’s “Operational and Surveillance” department involves “stripping down” cars used by spies in the field.
A blurb for the “Vehicle Technician” role posted online states: “Day to day, you’ll provide professional diagnostic and repair services across our range of vehicles, ensuring they’re maintained to the highest standards to meet our organisation’s requirements.
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“This could range from changing a tyre or lamp filament, or diagnosing an electrical glitch in an air conditioning system, right through to stripping down and re-building an entire transmission system.”
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Successful applicants are also advised the job could see them posted to different parts of the UK to carry out repairs with added “opportunities to work overseas” in the future.
The plum job – based at MI5’s west London workshop – offers 25 days annual leave, interest-free season ticket loan, excellent pension scheme, cycle to work scheme and onsite gym.
According to reports, £24million worth of cars were written off making the 2015 Bond flick Spectre – including the destruction of seven specially designed Aston Martin DB10 sports cars.
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A Land Rover belonging to one of the film’s villains was also destroyed for a key action scene involving a collision with an aeroplane piloted by Bond.
In total 13 on-screen cars have been destroyed since Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 was crashed into a wall in 1964’s Goldfinger.
While in Daniel Craig’s first outing as Bond in Casino Royale from 2006 007 flips his Aston Martin seven times in a barrel-roll. It made the Guinness Book of World Records, but left the classy sports car in bits.
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The most destructive Bond was Pierce Brosnan, who crashed 58 cars in four films.
In the World is Not Enough from 1999, Brosnan’s Bond sees his BMW Z8 sliced in half by a helicopter weapon after he gets trapped in a caviar factory while under attack from a throng of baddies.
“Q’s not gonna like this”, he says to himself about the Secret Service’s gadget-master – Q – best known for handing out kit and souped-up motors for missions.
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