I was looking the other day on my favorite Bond site MI6 and saw a literary piece on the making of Ian Fleming's "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang".
Nouveau riche Count Louis Zborowski wished to drive a team car for Mercedes post World War One. The original singular Chitty Bang Bang was forged from an old Mercedes chassis and an airplane engine. While he raced this car and won two races at Brooklands, he next created the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang that we know today. There were three Chitty's in all.
But it wasn't until Ian Fleming saw the renovated Chitty in the early sixties that the magical "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" came into being.
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