Nevertheless, you can actually buy this car now, to drive legally in all countries where it’s legal to drive car fire-spitting cars in spandex suits. For just $US150,000, Mark Racop and his Fiberglass Freaks replicas will get you a full, exact copy of the 1966 Batmobile with:
• Rocket exhaust flamethrower works (YES!)
• Show-car quality paint job.
• Car sports Radir wheels with accurately shaped bat spinners.
• Brand new GM 350 crate engine and brand new transmission.
• centre console aluminium trim
• Five light flasher, steering bezel, door sill chevron plates, “chrome-painted seat buckets, and even the very knobs, buttons and T handles are molded from vintage equipment.”
• Five highly-polished aluminium roll top dashboard doors that glide open.
• Red beacon light.
• Batbeam antenna grid raises between the front windshields.
• Detect-a-scope radar screen glows green.
• DVD player that plays on the LCD screen in the dash.
• Hood and trunk raise and lower with actuator switches.
• High-end stereo to play back the original Batman theme or the Prince one.
You will have to find your own boyish sidekick, but I can only see win in all this. [—Thanks Lalo!]
Christmas Gifts
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 6:25 PMNow that is just too cool. The only thing left to do is find US$150,000.
If the Aussie Dollar could just creep up over the $0.95 mark to say the $3.00 mark, I could just about get one.
I wonder if they would sell the Rocket exhaust flamethrower seperately?
Doug
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 1:21 AMUhm, not entirely accurate description. The photos are not an exact replica of the original car. The car used in the series was a 1966 or 1967 Pontiac GTO that they added all the extra bits to. The front of the replica car in the photo is nowhere near what the GTO looked like.
They might call it a Batmobile, but it’s not an accurate reproduction. At best, it’s a re-imagining and restylised copy.
But as long as it has a soundtrack that goes with it, (and costumes, and camoflaged batcave entrance, and sliding bookcase, and the statue head with hidden button, who cares?
Rob
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 4:15 PMDoug,the Batmobile was built by George Barris and is based on the 1955 Lincoln Futura Dream Car,i think you may have confused the GTO based car used for the Monkees TV series.You may be interested to know that George Barris,Bud Kunz and Les Tompkins built the car in only three weeks.
DonC
Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 5:05 PM3 weeks you say…well not exactly. They had the Futura to start with already. Bill Cushenberry did the metalwork..arched the wheelwells, extended the fins, took out the center canopy, painted it FLAT black for the initial 1st TV show..thats right- Flat black.
I build these cars too..in metal but it takes a lot longer than 3 weeks:)