Twenty-nine years ago, Doug Redenius and friends Dr. Michael L. VanBlaricum and John Cork began to collect vehicles used in James Bond Movies. 

Most of the vehicles are kept in a large airplane hangar of a military base south of Chicago, Illinois. 

The first collection was a submarine called Neptune, used from the bond film in 1992, For Your Eyes Only.

The Neptune was bought at $3000 from the New York museum. It was kept in Redenius' backyard.

The Neptune and its lucky collectors gained popularity when People magazine featured it on the same "issue which Elizabeth Taylor was marrying Larry Fortinsky, and Michael Jackson was her best man," Redenius recalled. 

The hot item was noticed by Reed Exhibitions, a firm that organizes trade fairs and conventions. They asked if the collectors had more Bond vehicles that they could display aside from the submarine. At that time, they didn't have. This opportunity prompted Redenius to approach the Brocolli family, the producer of the James Bond films then.

Redenius proposed a deal with the firm, "we said if you're willing to buy some of them and pay for the restoration, add the vehicles to your tour and then donate them, we'll do that."

Nearly a decade later, Redenius already had a total of 41 James Bond vehicles and 39 of which were acquired by himself without his friends.

Restorations are done twice a year by Redenius and some 20 volunteers to maintain the vehicles. The Ian Fleming Foundation, which the collectors formed, feeds the volunteers, pays the vehicles' parking rentals, and the rest are donated for scholarships.

Some of the collections are currently on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in California. The auto show Bond Motion is the first official exhibition in the U.S. to feature original vehicles from the Bond franchise, with 30 cars, motorcycles, boats, submarines, helicopters, and scale aircraft models. 

Highlights of the auto show are Redenius' 1977 Lotus Esprit S1 submarine from The Spy Who Loved Me, 1985 Aston Martin V8 from The Living Daylights, 1999 BMW Z8 from The World Is Not Enough, and the 2019 Aston Martin DB10 from Spectre.