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According to the "notes found in the desk of a New York advertising executive," Jesuits will lend their Aston-Martin to the pope [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 27].
Bellairs possibly intended this as a reference to James Bond, who drives a specially equipped Aston-Martin in the course of his adventures. Myers notes Bellairs would not have wasted his time reading a James Bond novel, "but certainly would have seen at least the early Bond movies. It was the third of these, Goldfinger, still the best in the whole series, that introduced the wildly popular Aston-Martin. Goldfinger was released in 1964, just the period when John would have been writing Fidgeta. As he was totally indifferent about cars, he never would have been able to come up with the name unless it were popular currency."
The Aston Martin marque is without question one of the most revered automobiles in the world. Since Lionel Martin's first hill climb in an Aston prototype in 1914, only around 12,000 have been built and purchased by an exclusive breed of enthusiasts. |
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