Inspired by our mention of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang last month, our pal Gene Herman went through his collection of automobilia and scanned for us a 1967 Profile Publications article detailing the history of Count Louis Vorow Zborowski and the three aero-engined cars he built in the early 1920s called Chitty Bang Bang. Author William Boddy appropriately infuses the article with the adventure it deserves, recounting the Count's insistence on a flimsy chassis and almost non-existent brakes to go along with the ginormous war surplus engines he kept dropping into these cars.

While other aero-engined cars associated with Count Louis Vorow Zborowski murdered race car drivers left and right – and Zborowski himself died at the wheel of a non-Chitty Mercedes – it's amazing the Chitty cars were in total responsible for only the loss of three fingers off a timing official's hand.

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