Lewis, Andy (16 May 2011). " 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'Car Undersells at Auction". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Archived from the original on 8 June 2014 . Retrieved 16 April 2014.

The Illustrations: Are wonderful and help with the imagination in your own movie form as you go along. Kudos, Mr. Fleming for your wonderful beginning to a series of children's novels sure to bamboozle as much as they excite the young reader. I feel like a kid again as I devoured this wonderful story. The film did not follow Fleming's novel closely. A novelisation of the film written by John Burke was published at the time of the film's release. It basically followed the film's story, but there were some differences in tone and emphasis; for example, the novelisation mentioned that Caractacus had difficulty coping after the death of his wife and made it clearer that the sequences including Baron Bomburst were fantasy. [40] Comic book adaption [ edit ] Books at a Glance". Ian Fleming: The Books. London: Ian Fleming Publications . Retrieved 19 April 2012. The Dedication: for the original built in 1920 by Count Zborowski near Canterbury. Inside was a 1914 chain drive 75 horsepower 6-cylinder Maybach airplane engine…in 1921 Chitty won the Hundred MPH at Brooklands and again in 1922 followed by an accident and she was never raced again.Vagg, Stephen (14 November 2020). "Ken Hughes Forgotten Auteur". Filmink. Archived from the original on 14 November 2020 . Retrieved 14 November 2020.

Credits: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". BFI Film & TV Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 22 January 2009 . Retrieved 20 April 2012. New Movies: Chug-Chug, Mug-Mug". Time. 27 December 1968. Archived from the original on 11 July 2014 . Retrieved 5 November 2010. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1969)". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019 . Retrieved 13 January 2019.

In December 1965, it was reported that Earl Hamner had completed a script based upon the novel. [12] The following July, it was announced the film would be produced by Broccoli, without Harry Saltzman, who was his producing partner on the James Bond films. [13] By April 1967, Ken Hughes was set to direct the film from a screenplay by Roald Dahl, [14] and Hughes claimed he subsequently rewrote Dahl's script. [9]