<P> Set in circa 1910 , the story opens with a montage of European Grand Prix races in which one particular car appears to win every race . In the final race , the car crashes and catches fire , ending its racing career . The car ends up in an old garage in rural England , where two children , Jeremy ( Adrian Hall ) and Jemima Potts ( Heather Ripley ) , have grown fond of it . However , a man in the junkyard intends to buy the car from the garage owner , Mr. Coggins ( Desmond Llewelyn ) , for scrap . The children , who live with their widowed father Caractacus Potts ( Dick Van Dyke ) , an eccentric inventor , and the family 's equally peculiar grandfather , implore their father to buy the car , but Caractacus ca n't afford it . While playing truant from school , they meet Truly Scrumptious ( Sally Ann Howes ) , a beautiful upper - class woman with her own motor car , who brings them home to report their truancy to their father . After she leaves , Caractacus promises the children that he will save the car , but is taken aback at the cost he has committed himself to . He looks for ways to raise money to avoid letting them down . </P>
<P> Set in circa 1910 , the story opens with a montage of European Grand Prix races in which one particular car appears to win every race . In the final race , the car crashes and catches fire , ending its racing career . The car ends up in an old garage in rural England , where two children , Jeremy ( Adrian Hall ) and Jemima Potts ( Heather Ripley ) , have grown fond of it . However , a man in the junkyard intends to buy the car from the garage owner , Mr. Coggins ( Desmond Llewelyn ) , for scrap . The children , who live with their widowed father Caractacus Potts ( Dick Van Dyke ) , an eccentric inventor , and the family 's equally peculiar grandfather , implore their father to buy the car , but Caractacus ca n't afford it . While playing truant from school , they meet Truly Scrumptious ( Sally Ann Howes ) , a beautiful upper - class woman with her own motor car , who brings them home to report their truancy to their father . After she leaves , Caractacus promises the children that he will save the car , but is taken aback at the cost he has committed himself to . He looks for ways to raise money to avoid letting them down . </P>
who played jeremy in chitty chitty bang bang
who played jeremy in chitty chitty bang bang
Adrian Hall
Adrian Hall