Batmobile
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The 60's Batmobile was an early T-bird design change concept. The producers of the show saw one and thought it looked just good enough to be the Batmobile. The rest is history. The new one should be the new Shelby Cobra.
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I think I know where they got the idea... 
Too bad.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...f/fc82170a.jpg
Too bad.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...f/fc82170a.jpg
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in my opinion the first batman movie was the best one. it had the beszt car.. not overdone. they need to go back to that car, and that style of a movie... and i still think michael keaton was the best bruce wayne
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Now I know where the designers of the Aztek got jobs after GM fired them.
BTW...the first Batmobile was the Lincoln Futura...a mid-fifties 'dream car'. I believe George Barris bought it from Ford, modified it, then pulled a mold from it to make the cars necessary for the movie. I sware I saw fiberglass bodies from that mold for sale in some magazine not that long ago.
MR
BTW...the first Batmobile was the Lincoln Futura...a mid-fifties 'dream car'. I believe George Barris bought it from Ford, modified it, then pulled a mold from it to make the cars necessary for the movie. I sware I saw fiberglass bodies from that mold for sale in some magazine not that long ago.
MR
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That has to be by FAR the WORST design of a batmobile I have ever seen. It looks like a bunch of recycled cans glued together. That's horrible. It looks nothing like the "batmobile" is most of the other Batman movies in the past.
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The Batmobile I saw in Gatlinburg was a 63 or 64 Ford. It had the center console with the floor shifter and the old green dot cruise-o-matic. It also had the bucket seats like were in the 64 Galaxy XL, or maybe the T-bird.
At least the man who ran the museum said it was a 63 or 64, and I believe he said T-bird. It has been a few years since I saw it.
At least the man who ran the museum said it was a 63 or 64, and I believe he said T-bird. It has been a few years since I saw it.
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Original Batmobile revealed...
http://www.javelinamx.com/Batmobile/futura1.htm
...and as a P.S. the original link here (to the new Batmobile) is no longer working.
...and as a P.S. the original link here (to the new Batmobile) is no longer working.
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