Musk bought Bond's Wet Nellie sub car for ~$1M in 2013 — and wanted to make it really transform
XFreeze · x · 2026-10-16
XFreeze shares the story of Elon Musk buying the actual "Wet Nellie" submarine car prop from the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me at auction for roughly $1 million. After discovering the prop never actually transformed on screen, Musk wanted to retrofit it with a Tesla powertrain to make the movie transformation real — a window into his sci-fi-to-engineering mindset.
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