Traveling around the World with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s car

Still remember the classic car in the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in a 1968 film starred Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious, based on Ian Fleming's novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car?

A musical film set in the 1910s, the story opens with Jeremy and Jemima Potts who live with their widowed father Caractacus Potts, an eccentric inventor, and his equally peculiar father. They meet Truly Scrumptious, a beautiful upper-class woman with her own motorcar, who brings them home to report their truancy to their father. Truly shows interest in Caractacus' odd inventions.

Discovery of a dream car that inspired the children to fantasize about being able to fly around the world, beautiful movie and very entertaining as family viewing.

Now, a replica of the car will be auctioned under license from the owner of MGM's production house Solicitors, Forrester Ketley & Co., together with replicas of other cars ever produced for a film-making.

The possibility of having the car and took it in a dream of a flying trip around the world, as quoted from the autoblog site and the bidspotter.co.uk site, said that this legendary car with Phantermobile, created by Jay Ohrberg, a renowned designer from Hollywood, which looks at the film "Pink Panther" exhibited at the Chelsea Legends Auto Show, London, from September 4 until October 14, 2011.

Unusual auction, because it will provide many memories for the bidders at a beautiful time in the past. A dream to fly around the world with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's car.

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(Source Kompas, Autoblog, wikipedia /Images CC)

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