[MaxBigfoot]

I had forgotten this, the last book of 007 James Bond creator was, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

I submit to you all that this may well have been the start of the SteamPunk genre.

The car aside from looking damn cool, was also a hovercraft, and a flying car.  It does have all the late Victorian vibes to it.

To screw with your brain however, Imagine if you dare, Sean Connery, doing the song.

For those of you not familiar with the car here is the only one I could find with no small humans. 

You just brought back some very fond memories from my youth. I loved that movie as a k1d and there were other movies like " Those Intrepid Men in Their Flying Machines " whose songs to this day are deeply imprinted into my mind. Right now I have " Chitty Chitty Bang Bang " song rattling around in my head and Dick Van Dyke singing it. The prior year he had done " Mary Poppins " and he was a huge star then. I also liked The Dick Van Dike show ( Oh, Rob ) on TV in glorious black and white. 

For a little bit of added trivia, the current owner of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is Peter Jackson, the "Lord Of The Rings" director.  One of the extras in the "The Hobbit" DVDs show him driving up to the studio in it.   

Is that right?  That’s great.   

Cool, even with the inevitable cup of tea in his hand.  He never goes anywhere on a shoot without a cup in his hand.   

[Cutter]

From Wikipedia. 

There were 6 cars built for the film, 1 was a fully road worthy which is now owned as noted by Peter Jackson. This car was privately owned by Pierre Picton of Stratford-upon-Avon from the early 1970s until May 2011.

The 5 others were a smaller road going car, the hover-car, the flying car, a transforming car, and a motorless cassis for trailer work.  The smaller driving version is in the Dezer Car Museum in Orlando, Florida.  The Hover car was mounted on a speedboat and was destroyed after filming.  The others did have engines added to later promote the film.  The final road version is privately owned by Anthony Bamford, and is on display at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, UK.

There are 7 replica cars as well.

[solvegas]

She's gonna tighten you up. 

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Katopunk Wild Wild West style

[Shadowmuse Blown]

That’s the first place they’ll look

[solvegas]

Anastasia Komori. 

[solvegas]

When I first saw this, I thought it was a real woman because it was so diminutive but then I clicked on it and saw it was pretty good art so I've decided to put it here since it is Steampunk. 

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Steampunk in space

[MaxBigfoot]

Steampunk in space

Ah, the natural progression after the discovery of Cavorite!   

[solvegas]

Old West Saloon girls. 

[solvegas]

Don't mess with her. 

[solvegas]

She has an adorable face. My $0.02. 

[solvegas]

Stick 'em up ! 

[solvegas]

 

[Shadowmuse Blown]

This is a real tricycle (or so the caption said), circa 1882.  It just felt so steampunk that I had to post it here.