a childhood memory. Im 22 and I loved this as a kid. I dont know how I got introduced to these kinds of movies like chitty, mary poppins and sound of music. I think my grandparents. But I love everyone of them. I love watching the clips and im happy I have a friend who I can share it with!
Hearing those engines growl at the beginning was just so epic, pretty beastly for cars from the 1910s! They weren't no ordinary jalopies, they were built to run hard and fast with daredevils pushing them through their paces! If you had lived then, hearing one of these monsters roar past you would surely send a chill down your spine because you had never heard a car that sounded like an angry wasp or some such abomination!
I just realized that they shot the GP sequences at the period-correct speed that cameras of the time would have used. What a small, but incredible piece of detail.
Ian Fleming wrote this for his kids, about the time he was becoming a successful writer with the James Bond books. Recall that James Bond is an agent in the late 1950s, after being in WWII. His car was then a restored Bentley racing car ( seen in the first movie ), famous for racing in the 1920s and 1930s, made by Bentley, who later went into building luxury cars similar to the Rolls-Royce company. The hidden gadgets are typical of James Bond's cars ( in the book, Chitty has a radar / direction finder built in, much like Bond's car in 'Goldfinger', where he tracks Gert Frobe to Germany ). In the film, it follows Gert Frobe to that castle in Germany. The idea of a plane / car flying to Germany on an adventure was not unlike the tales flying around for decades after WWII.
the car being broken almost beyond repair in the crash and then restored and transformed into something amazing, always reminds me of my long term foster mother once telling me, you don't just throw away something because it's a little bit broken.
I saw "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" after growing up with Chitty, and I knew that I wanted to be a restorer of classic cars. Working on my Aston Martin DBS in the workshop with Chitty music playing is divine!
I love how the main theme underscores every time Racecar #3 appears on screen. Its like the orchestration is telling us “hey, pay attention to this particular car. Itll stand out soon.”
I got the same issue with the Prototypes doing that where the brakes will activate without me touching them and lockup the rear end. It does it at Nürburgring GP and Barcelona hair turns. I've turned off TC(both places), Pit Limiter and ABS.
While kids always loved the movie... it has aged well. Much like mary poppins when i see it now i find a lot more depth than i did as a kid. Opening scene being a good example.
I was referring to missiles, when I launch cruise missiles, they are always shot down by SPAA, this is literally the first time I've seen a missile hit
@@user-mn4ud3fm6c Hey, so, I launched 4 regular cruise missiles first, to mask the nuke salvo. Make sure you spread out the targets too. Then, wait until the cruise missiles are like 500m away, and fire the nukes at the same targets.
Someone also said that the wood carved statue inside of the church in the Carriers of the Vine level also has something creepy happen when you shoot at it. I haven't been able to confirm that though.
I own a clutch/brake manufacture business and I do a lot of stuff for vintage cars and the high end antique car industry.. for 30 years I would do clutches for this one particular persons shop in Virginia , he was an English chap named Tivvy , and we got to talking from time to time, I was talking to him a few months ago on the phone and was telling him my dream is to build a prewar chain drive Grand Prix race car like in the movie chitty chitty bang bang…well the next thing he said, floored me… “you know I built those cars back in the day mate” he says to me WHAT !? Lol all these years I did work for his shop and never knew he actually was part of the team that bull these cars.. so he told me the story of these vehicles. Most of them are rolls Royce chassis that they scraped the bodies and built new race body’s on. And ford sponsored the cars in the movie, chitty was a one off that was powered by a ford 4 cyl…. I talk to him all the time… Great guy ….anyway..my brush with greatness…lol
