Photographer: Bronte Wittpenn/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesIn 1989, a couple from Long Island, New York paid roughly $100 for an unclaimed storage unit.
Actors Barbara Bach and Roger Moore, stars of the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me," sit on the 1976 Lotus Esprit.
But after they loaded the car onto a truck and set off for home, truckers contacted them via CB radio to let them know they were hauling a James Bond car, according to Redenius.
National Motor Museum | Heritage Images | Getty ImagesMusk said he'd grown up watching the Bond movie.
The 1976 Lotus Esprit, known as "Wet Nellie," that was used in the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me."