Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Comes To Craven Arms!
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00:00My name is Vin Warden, and I'm 92 years of age, which is a bit old for making models.
00:07Chitty, chitty, bang, bang, come to Ludlow in August.
00:12I went down to see it and got the idea and
00:15come back home and thought I might be able to make one of those.
00:19So I went to Shrewsbury and bought a scooter.
00:22It was advertised on eBay or somewhere.
00:26Up at Abbots and Batts at Monkmore.
00:30Brought that home.
00:31Then I went to Minsterley.
00:35I needed a tub chair.
00:38But when I got it back here, it was four inches, four inches too wide.
00:43So I had to cut it down the middle into two, glue it together again.
00:46And a friend upholstered it then.
00:51The plywood, I got a large piece of cardboard and cut out a template
00:57to make the sides and took it up to the vehicle liners up in Long Lane.
01:03And the manager kindly agreed to
01:07cut it out in plywood for me for the next day.
01:12And then I had to varnish it and put 70 odd lines on.
01:16That's all vinyl lines on there.
01:20A retired plumber from Kempton done the four piece,
01:24done the four piece of copper exhaust pipe.
01:30This bit on the front is from a charity shop, Cats Charity Home.
01:33This is a part of a cake tin and a kitchen utensil.
01:39And the windscreen was a picture frame out of a hospice charity shop.
01:45And the perspex to go inside it was from Scrappy's at Church Stretton.
01:49I started on the 1st of September and I finished on the 5th of November.
01:53This week, but I've been working in the house on it.
01:58No interference all day and even starting early in the morning to do something.
02:05There's no real plan except to show it.
02:07But I will go down to Ludlow a week on Saturday on the 23rd
02:11because the original Chitty Bang Bang
02:15was one that was made by two men in Ludlow.
02:18It's coming back from a world tour to raise money for cancer.
02:22Sorry, I've got that wrong, prostate cancer.
02:26They're coming back on the 23rd
02:29at two o'clock, the same day as the Christmas lights.
02:32So I'm hoping to show mine alongside theirs that day.
02:37To look a bit, not quite as good as theirs, but a miniature version of it.
02:42I say it myself, at 92 years of age, it's the best I've ever made.
02:48And if you'd have asked me to make something like that
02:50when I was about 20 or 30, I couldn't do it.
02:53I don't know what changed you, I'm sure.
02:56It's unbelievable, really.
02:57I have a job to believe in myself and I'm doing these things.