Pedant of the month
Pedant of the month wins a C&SC baseball cap. Send your observations to alastair. clements@haymarket.com I think Mick Walsh is confused in his Chitty Chitty Bang Bang piece
(From the cockpit, July). The eight film Chitties might well have been built by Alan Mann, but the other replica cars were built by John Mitchell, a movie-car specialist who also did the cars for the film
Sahara – one of which came up for auction recently.
He apparently fitted one Chitty with a Jaguar 3.8-litre engine, which went alarmingly fast, and it’s still a fun sequence! Andrew Noble