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Who had one of these?
mangogrooveworkshop - 14/1/05 at 02:24 PM

Chee wiz they command some serious money.......mmmm didnt know that when I was in short pants.


Corgi Chitty Chitty bang bang Ebay link

Peteff - 14/1/05 at 03:33 PM

If I had I don't think I'd admit to it.

locogeoff - 14/1/05 at 03:49 PM

Caracticus Potts had one of those!

I'll get me coat...

andybod - 14/1/05 at 03:57 PM

i had a customer who has a copy of the original body made by the same person who made the car but it was mounted to a trailer chassis he was hoping to find a chassis to bolt it to and hope that i,de get it mot,d for him mmm don,t think so he only wanted to use it"locally" and didn,t think it had to be built to too high a spec !

theconrodkid - 14/1/05 at 05:54 PM

i know where the original one is,rusting away,based on an escort

stephen_gusterson - 14/1/05 at 08:22 PM

yep. I did.

was bought is at a kid. always hated it. My parents for some stange reason still have it, minus the front and back wings.

The kids are also missing. But, kids these days.....



atb

steve

Browser - 14/1/05 at 11:01 PM

I dropped my brothers down a drain near our house in Ryton nr Newcastle, not thinking it would float, just following that old kid thing of posting things into things. HE never has let me forget that

andyps - 14/1/05 at 11:31 PM

I had one, probably in my Mum's loft somewhere I think, with all the other models we had as kids (except the really good ones which are in my loft!).

Saw the real car in a showroom in Stockport when the film was first out. I thought it was in the cars the star museum in Keswick these days.

DavidM - 15/1/05 at 12:47 AM

I had one. Moving the handbrake made the wings spring out. They don't make em like that anymore!

David

mangogrooveworkshop - 15/1/05 at 01:34 AM

quote:
Originally posted by theconrodkid
i know where the original one is,rusting away,based on an escort


One of five and a replica has been built. It has a ford v6 from a capri!



http://chittygen11.com/

alive and well and been clamped by the DVLA !


[Edited on 15-1-05 by mangogrooveworkshop]

Spyderman - 15/1/05 at 03:02 PM

quote:
Originally posted by locogeoff
Caracticus Potts had one of those!

I'll get me coat...


I think it was his son who had the car.
Wasn't Caracticus the nutty old Army Captain?

Sad ain't I?

Bob C - 15/1/05 at 06:41 PM

Nah caracatus was the dancing inventor (got the video & my daughter used to like it) (OK I liked it as well - Heath Robinson himself is on the credits)
Talking of car films, the Stimson Special (I think) in "monte carlo or bust" was a rebodied 427 cobra(!) - I believe they made a few for the film but they were all made back into cobras.
Bob C