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“Live and Let Die” establishes Roger Moore as a Bond without a car club. He can handle anything with an engine, cereal-box countermeasures be damned. “The Man With The Golden Gun” doubles down on his improvised prowess by showing audiences a vehicular stunt previously undocumented on film, pulled off by a showroom-fresh AMC Hornet.

American racer Jay Milligan first corkscrewed a car in 1972, courtesy of a ramp system devised by transportation engineer Raymond McHenry. They called it “The Astro Spiral Jump” and knew exactly which producers to sell it to. The Bond team not only bought the maneuver, but patented it so no errant action movies could beat them to the punch. 

Completing a 270-spiral with a 2,888-pound AMC Hornet on location 30 miles outside Bangkok took extensive computer simulation, the first ever done for a vehicular stunt, and a slight remodel, with the steering wheel centered for weight distribution. 

In front of eight rolling cameras, stunt driver Loren “Bumps” Willert hit the tilted ramp at the precisely calculated speed, 40 miles-per-hour, and landed safely on the other side. There was no second take. With or without the notorious slide whistle that underlines it in the finished film, “the Astro Spiral Jump” remains one of the most impressive stunts in the franchise and the AMC Hornet, one of the most underrated rides.