Bang Bang
died one of Britain’s
but *9? the greatestever drive:-sand
enthusiasm of a Lie: him Zborowsfils
I e‘ I * ' creation.
otoflng Ida.  was bin-ned and
5 local villagers dug a large
  Of these, probably the hole m me sand and
best known was fellow buried the ca,-justym-ds
racing driver John {mm where she meg; he;
G0dfl'ey Pally ThOIIl% end_ .
W110 'l'eP\Wed1¥ b01181“ There she remained
I-he mammeth 6 imtil the early 70s when
3 ialfer mshewasdugupbyaman
em 1', named Owen Wyn, re-
Remodelledi and storedandsoldabroad.
renamed Babs, Louis’ But what about the
a huge el’ eetiell _5°°n other cars, Chitties I and
isecured a plaee In the Hand the sedate _*Chitty
leeerd beeks breaking III, also known as The
' records at Brook-
 _ White Mercedes?
’1i3I\d5 and liekmg the lend Following her horrific
I Blleed Teeerd at Pendille crash at Brooklands in
Sends ill 1927 with 3 Autumn I922, she was
'$Peed Qf 171IT}Ph- repaired but never raced
'l‘rag1lac:.lly, it wias the agam ~
car’s t run, or as .
P Th Mr B3311 Howard, of
, arry omas = ? . _
T accelerated on a second Sgchard 0105;’ thlgltttéf
. urne, sugge e
Z§Ei‘II€‘iee‘§?1‘,§i“2‘¥1% £5 er.“-$.11“ fee .s<>1<1 ad
uddenly went into a 3% K; hgmnge 5:63;
broadsided in a Howe mg mg“? behind
of ' circles and th R58 and
to a halt on e mm?’ 
wheels_ I Dymchurch Railway,
wmmMrA Georgebefore peg to the
.. - ' Conan-Doyle.
Kings of the _ _
afterwards: Afifl 1  Tel‘
other spectmors I SW6‘?-1 l_7%‘5 ell ROIIFIIT
CDEC ‘_ s
.e.su-s
hwgrk abgve BOdd¥ ken’ 6'dl1J0!' Of
1;; that spfltblotor Sport, who
of havoc, ¢1;eshowed1tatanefi1ib1-
chainhadbrokenmll <>f_<>kl ms at the
x , "hgd IP31-fy 
head with a The car was then left
ul blow as it to rot some years later,
when John MorriseVel'  Heme
bought it for spenres,  and  H
m-ins-ipalb, to mid the was pushed _out 1nt_o a
 for use in  field where it remained
fern‘-seater, zeo horse for a   number of yew,
  dlfi gfilggfiesrzted from the
e wasa ' er-  —
ent mry. On the Count’S It med '
mac deem in 1924,_1f after ‘E’: $.33» by s1§’e°§1
Passed 110 MI Redd)’ W11“ butcher Peter Han'is-
liems before bemg Mayes, who spent -a
bellght by dealer and decade restoring the car
motoring enthusiast at his h - L0 d
David “Bunty” Scott- Road_ ome m n on
Moncriefl’ in 1929. A ‘ _
Writr-es Mr Howard, a B93‘ _wel'e 1atel'_ 1151'
close friend of Mr Scott- vfllved 1," a law Slut to
Moncrieff: MBHM3, determine the legal
recalled that the car was ‘°"YI‘erSh1P ef the ear»
very dicey to handle, said to have involved
having a tendency to go L°rd M°m5ag“e-
into aflslow swing from V A~   ' 1 h
‘me telegraph P916 to mg.ngle$me‘1h?c if-, gage
§)“;gI‘g,,at anythmg over between Hollis‘ and
    V‘ t Harris-Mayes at e e out-
Mr Howard also recalls I th ~ th t
3  e iIlCid6Ilt  t0  (_:E'eread
him by M1‘ Scettflzohandlethelegaldetails
Meneliefi» 33 he was ene on condition that if Hollis
day Passing High”-ma the was awarded the car, it
Count’s former home. - would go on display at
m“€;€3a°;’r;’1é|1I;§i;%B“PWaeI: the National _Motor Mu-
Szflgppggt M er we “II §“§§.§“§l";e was
or no ap'pare ‘t > ,l I e
reason. He could finlld avfiarded 130- }_Itan't1:‘M§YeS
nothing wrong and thenw ° 5° 1 l  el"
just as Sn-angeiy the car Yorker Harry Remck III
re-started without prob- 1969 for 516-50“ ‘
lem.” I ' ~ '
“Bunty always felt that wt  ,§,°i,‘°X°ge,fl§f;n2f,i
the ear was paying its exhibit at the Frederick
1”‘ “’sP°°"s “° ‘bee
 ” he added. Museum in memla Dd
e car eventually <. ’
passed to Billy 
another dealer at Dover,   Chitty III, or The
who drove it about until_Mercedes, is thought
the mid 1930’s when the still be in the

Chitty I, before modification, dwarfs Mowgli, alggl special, during a Brggklgndg test day in
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