IT was a case of beauty and the bite.

She is one of the James Bond films’ most glamorous ladies with a name to match, while he is arguably one of the action hero spy’s fiercest villains.

Both Pussy Galore and Jaws, aka actors Richard Kiel and Honor Blackman met throngs of fans at the Bond in Motion exhibition at the Beaulieu National Motor Museum in the New Forest.

Both posed for photographs and signed autographs at the world’s largest collection of James Bond vehicles.

It includes motorbikes, cars, jets and other dream machines from all 23 blockbuster films, ranging from the 1937 Rolls Royce Phantom III in Goldfinger to the HondaCRF 250R ridden by Daniel Craig in the latest blockbuster Skyfall to Octopussy’s screeching Acrostar Jet.

It is open to the public until January 5 and tickets are available by visiting beaulieu.co.uk