![]() ![]() The fourth Chitty was ceremonially buried on Pendine Sands after being wrecked in a land speed record. Their monstrous engines were so loud a bylaw was passed banning them from Canterbury city centre. Because Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was a real car - a series of four real cars in fact - built by Count Louis Zborowski for racing at Brooklands and for land speed records. These are two fairly tough acts to follow. Except.the book was written by Ian Fleming and the film by Roald Dahl. It worked for Russell T Davis when he took on Doctor Who and for Steven Moffat when he set Sherlock in the present day. Writing a new Chitty Chitty Bang Bang book gave me the chance to harness a potent pleasure that I couldn’t generate myself: nostalgia. It was as if they’d offered me the loan of a 1920s Paragon Panther - yes obviously I’d love to drive it but do I really want that responsibility? Wouldn’t it be better to leave it safely parked on the gravel in a motor museum?. ![]() ![]() I had one of those moments a year or so ago when the Fleming family got in touch and asked if I would consider writing the sequel. ![]()
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