The Ford racing team headed by Alan Mann built CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG.

The final product weighed approximately 2 tons, was 17 feet long, and built on a custom made ladder frame chassis. No detail was spared in her creation. Many traditional forms of car-building were re-employed and modern technology stepped in to create a vehicle which was both accurate enough to fool veteran car experts. When under the microscope of 70mm, cinema cameras were hard-wearing enough to withstand everything from driving in sand to driving on cobbled streets and down staircases.

The wheels were moulded in alloy to replicate the timber wheels which would have been true to the period. The boat deck was of red and white cedar and built by boat-builders in Windsor, and the array of brass fittings were obtained from Edwardian wrecks. Chitty rolled out of the workshop in June 1967 and was registered with the number plate GEN 11 given to her by Ian Fleming in his novel.

(In the novel, the number plate GEN11 had significance in that if you read the number ones as " i's ", it spelled out the latin word "genii" meaning magical person or being.)