Modesty Blaise - Cars

Cars

• Modesty drove an ivory-coloured Daimler Dart in the first two books, and it also featured in the comic strip stories La Machine (1963), The Mind of Mrs Drake (1965) and The Head Girls (1966).
• Modesty and Willie are also seen driving an Aston Martin DB5 in La Machine (1963), a car which did not become associated with James Bond until the release of the film Goldfinger the following year. (In the Goldfinger novel Bond drives the older Aston Martin DB Mark III).
• In the third book, I Lucifer, Modesty drives a Reliant Sabre Six.
• In the comic strip story The Jericho Caper (1967) Willie owns a Jensen FF, the four-wheel drive version of the Jensen Interceptor, a car with an American V8 engine and handmade British coachwork. This car, driven by both Modesty and Willie, appeared in the strips on numerous occasions in the next few years and in the books A Taste for Death and The Impossible Virgin.
• In A Taste for Death Willie also drives a Lotus Elan.
• The comic strip includes a cameo appearance by a 1911 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost.
• Modesty has a Rolls-Royce as her luxury car, and is chauffeured by Weng, but the model varies. In the comic strip The Head Girls she has a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III Mulliner Park Ward Drop Head Coupe.
• While in France Modesty often uses various types of Citroen DS.
• In Finland Modesty drives a rented Volvo 144S, Willie a Land Rover.
• During the days of The Network Garvin was driving a Mercedes 450 SL (as revealed in flashback in the 1982 book The Night Of Morningstar).
• In South America Modesty and Willie are using an unspecified Mercedes model, apparently either Modesty's or Willie's own.