![]() ![]() He wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car in 1962. Ian Fleming was born in 1908 and died in 1964. It must have created a deep impression on the young Ian Fleming because when, forty years later, he decided that he would write a story for his small son Caspar about a car that could fly, he described a magnificent green car with 'rows and rows of gleaming knobs on the dashboard', 'a cream-coloured collapsible roof' and huge exhaust pipes of 'glistening silver'. It belonged to an eccentric racing driver called Count Louis Zborowski. When he was still a boy at school he had been to visit a house in Kent where there was a very fast and very noisy racing car. Ian Fleming had a passion for cars, and in the James Bond books he wrote wonderful descriptions of cars such as a Bentley Continental and an Aston Martin. ![]()
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