![]() ![]() The buyer paid less than $100 for the unit. The storage unit was prepaid for 10 years at the end of the lease, no one claimed the contents, so the contents of the storage locker were placed on auction. Afterwards, it was shipped to Long Island, New York, and placed in storage. Upon completion of filming, the submarine went on a promotional tour. When an additional road car was needed for the chase sequences the producers borrowed Lotus chairman Colin Chapman's personal vehicle. Two unpowered dummy cars fitted with wheels were used to show the Esprit entering and emerging from the sea the first was designed to be fired from an air cannon off the end of the pier, the second was towed by a rope buried under the beach with a sweeping brush fitted to the underside to cover the rope up as the car was tugged out. ![]() Three of the Esprits were just empty bodyshells which were used to show each phase of the car-to-submarine transformation. ![]() In filming, six Esprits were used (tagged "PPW 306R"), though only one submarine. The fictional history of the car in the film was that it was developed by Q-Branch of MI6, and its blueprints were stolen by KGB agent Anya Amasova (after Bond asked Amasova "How did you know about that?" Amasova replied, "I stole the blueprints of this car two years ago"). Filming ĭuring filming of The Spy Who Loved Me, the submarine was piloted by ex- U.S. The interior bears no resemblance to that of a car, being just a platform for the scuba divers, and the equipment used to operate, drive, and power the sub. It has four electric motors that allowed forward motion only. The sub requires a crew of two to operate. This undesirable force was compensated for by fins placed where the wheels would be in a conventional Esprit. The wedge shape of the Esprit is designed to provide downforce, which would cause the submarine to dive. It was built by Perry Oceanographic, Inc., of Riviera Beach, Florida, United States, specifically for the film, using a Lotus Esprit S1 bodyshell, for about $100,000 at the time. The submarine does not maintain a dry interior, and thus is a " wet sub" that requires occupants to don scuba gear. "Wet Nellie" is named in reference to Little Nellie, an autogyro featured in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, which was itself named after actress and comedian Nellie Wallace. The Esprit was chosen to give James Bond a glamorous car to drive. " Wet Nellie" is the behind-the-scenes name given to a custom-built submarine, created for the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me in the shape of a Lotus Esprit S1 sports car. ![]()
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