Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (car) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (car) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the vintage racing car which features in the book, musical film and stage production of the same name. Writer Ian Fleming took his inspiration for the car from a series of aero-engined racing cars built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s, christened "Chitty Bang Bang". The original Chitty Bang Bang's engine was from a Zeppelin dirigible. The name reputedly derived either from the sound it made whilst idling, or from a bawdy song from World War I. Six versions of the car were built for the film and
Chitty Chitty The Chitty are a distinctive group of Tamil people found mainly in Melaka and Singapore, who are also known as the Indian Peranakans and have adopted Chinese and Malay cultural practices whilst also retaining their Hindu heritage. As of today, their population stands at 2,000. The Chitty/Chetti community is largely from the Coramandel Coast of South India and are devout Hindus. Like the Peranakans, the Chitty speak a Malay patois, which is mixed with many Tamil loan words. Many of the Chitty are unable to communicate in Tamil fluently. Historical records stated that the Tamil traders from Panai in