Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (car) This prop car is highly detailed and is fully equipped with multiple Stage prop tricks, including computer activated retractable wings and rotating 45 degree tilt tires. The car was originally constructed at The Rolling Stock Company of Sarasota, Florida and hydraulics designed and constructed at PRG of New Windsor, NY, under license by Michael Rose and MGM On Stage. 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
Bang the Drum Slowly Harris writing the screenplay. "Bang the Drum Slowly" was named one of the top 100 sports books of all time by "Sports Illustrated" and is the most popular of the four books published in this series, according to the "Los Angeles Times". The last line of the novel, "From here on in I rag nobody", was ranked number 95 on "American Book Review"′s "100 Best Last Lines from Novels" in 2008. Harris played baseball as a boy and often wrote about the game and was known for writing realistically about the sport in his novels. For this novel, Harris chose