

The Potts' party is helped and hidden by the local Toymaker, who now works only for the childish Baron. He bluffs his abilities to the Baron to avoid being executed. Grandpa is taken to the castle, and has been ordered by the Baron to make another floating car just for him. Caractacus, Truly, and the children see their Grandpa Potts, being taken away by airship, following it to Vulgaria, which involves the car sprouting wings and propellers to fly. The Baron then sends two spies to capture the car, but they capture Truly’s father, Lord Scrumptious, then Caractacus’ father, Grandpa Potts by accident, mistaking each for the car's creator. The story starts with the quartet escaping Bomburst's pirates.

Caractacus tells them a tale about nasty Baron Bomburst, the tyrant of fictional Vulgaria, who wants to steal Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In the first trip in the car, Caractacus, the children, and a wealthy woman they've had awkward encounters with before, Truly Scrumptious, picnic on the beach. He purchases the car and rebuilds it with a new name, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" for the unusual noise of its engine. When they learn the car is due to be scrapped, they beg their father, inventor Caractacus, to save it he makes multiple unsuccessful attempts to sell his inventions in order to raise money to buy it, until he earns tips from a song-and-dance act at a carnival. 8.4 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Adventure in TinkertownĪt a rural England garage, two children, Jeremy and Jemima Potts, find a car formerly used for racing in Grand Prix races across Europe until it crashed and burned in 1909.
