Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car is a children's story written by Ian Fleming for his son Caspar, with illustrations by John Burningham, and was first published in 1964 by Jonathan Cape in London and Random House in New York.

Trivia

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang took its name from a pair of celebrated racing cars built and raced by Louis Zborowski and his engineer Clive Gallop, in the 1920s.
• Because of his comment "This will out-disney Disney", Van Dyke was banned from doing Disney productions for several years.
• The movie was referenced by United States Senator Orrin Hatch during the June 23, 2004 discussion of the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act, comparing illegal file sharing on P2P networks, with stealing candy under the guise of it being free.
• Barbara Windsor, most famous for the campy British Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders, appears briefly as the wife of the man subjected to Potts' automatic haircut machine.
• The location for Vulgaria was Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria.
• The stage version practically had all the songs from the movie, except for "Lovely, Lonely Man."
• Dakota Fanning sings the song "Hushabye Mountain" in the 2005 version of the movie "War of the Worlds."