Romeo Spider was the marque frequently distinguished as such), is the first of only ten Ferrari 275 GTB/4S NART Spiders built. Today, this model is one of the most valuable Ferrari road cars of all time. McQueen liked the car very much, and eventually managed to acquire one for himself. The dune buggy was a Meyers Manx, built in California on a VW beetle floor pan with a hopped-up Chevrolet Corvair engine. McQueen owned one, and the Manx, the original dune buggy, was often copied. Crown's two-door Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow carried Massachusetts vanity license tag "TC 100" for the film. Sean Connery had been the original choice for the title role, but turned it down—a decision he later regretted. In the 1999 remake, the title role was portrayed by another actor who had portrayed James Bond, Pierce Brosnan. Filming locations The movie was filmed primarily on location in Boston and surrounding areas in Massachusetts and New Hampshire: Second Harrison Gray Otis House at 85 Mt. Vernon St. on Beacon Hill, designed by Massachusetts State House architect Charles Bulfinch in 1800 for Congressman Harrison Gray Otis, was Thomas Crown's residence. The robbery occurred in what was then the Beverly National Bank (fictitiously renamed Boston Mercantile Bank for the film), at the North Beverly Plaza, Beverly, Massachusetts, and 55 Congress St., Boston. The current location is noted as 44 Water Street, the offices of private investment firm Brown Brothers. The interiors were renovated and partially restored in 1999 by the firm GHK, Malcolm Higbee-Glace, Project Manager A scene of the car theft was filmed in downtown Beverly across from City Hall The money-dumpings were shot in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Coolidge Ave., Cambridge The polo sequences were filmed at the Myopia Hunt Club, 435 Bay Road, South Hamilton The golf sequences were filmed at the Belmont Country Club, 181 Winter St., Belmont The auctions took place in the St. James Ballroom at the Eben Jordan Mansion, 46 Beacon St., Beacon Hill Thomas drove his dune buggy on Crane Beach in Ipswich, Massachusetts The Schweizer SGS 1-23H glider was flown at Salem, New Hampshire. by Roy McMaster (not Steve McQueen) The meat shop scene took place at Blackstone and North streets in Boston's North End Thomas and Vicki walked in the rain in Copp's Hill Cemetery in Boston's North End Thomas and Vicki kissed (wearing formal dress) at the top of Acorn Street on