He boot looks as if it could take your eye out if you got too close.
Holy vintage vehicles! Earliest known official Batmobile goes on sale
A heavily-customised Oldsmobile said to be the first officially-licenced Batmobile will go to auction later in December. Created in 1963, three years before the infamously camp Batman TV show hit the airwaves, DC Comics allowed a US chap named Forrest Robinson to build a Batmobile, according to Heritage Auctions. The hammer- …
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Monday 17th November 2014 11:43 GMT phil 27
There can be only one true batmobile!, the reworked Lincoln futura, reworked into the batmobile by ace Kustomizer George Barris. George bought the futura which was a ford concept car built in turin after a sucessful tour of the show circuits for a few years for $1. Bet that would make more than $112k now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Futura
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Monday 17th November 2014 16:05 GMT Mike Moyle
At least this one doesn't have the stupid turbine engine.
Since the Barris conversion, every live-action Batmobile has had to have the honkin' big jet engine in it which was -- I suppose -- alright for the mood of the TV show, but makes absolutely NO sense if you're trying to be the movies' ninja-like urban legend.
Just sayin'.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
