I think I would need to do more than dance a bit at the county fair to raise enough to buy this.

This is the fully-functional road car purpose-built for principal shooting. Production designer Ken Adam stood firm in his belief that if the film was to be about a car, a real car would have to be built—not a mock-up. Along with Rowland Emmett, who had been assigned the task of creating a series of mad inventions to appear in the film, and the Ford racing team headed by Alan Mann, Adam set about building Chitty. No detail was spared in her creation.
Original Hero Road-going “GEN 11” Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.