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The film was shot starting 9 March 1966. (The same month AIP began filming Hells Angels on Wheels .) [ 9 ] The "Fireball 500" is a 1966 Plymouth Barracuda , heavily customized by George Barris , with a standard 273 cubic inch V-8 engine that develops 275 h.p. [ 10 ] At one point in the film, the car is referred to as the Batmobile, prompting ...
Shrewsberry is best known as the driver of the drag racing replica of the Barris-built Batmobile from the 1966 television series [1] [2] and of the "L.A. Dart," a series of wheelstanding funny cars each with a rear-mounted, supercharged Chrysler Hemi engine and each sponsored by the Dodge and Plymouth dealers of Los Angeles and Orange Counties ...
The Batmobile from the 1960s Batman TV series. In 1966, Barris was asked to design a theme car for the Batman television series. [10] Originally, the auto stylist Dean Jeffries was contracted to build the car for the show in late 1965, but when the studio wanted the car sooner than he could deliver, the project was given to Barris. [11]
The TV series' popularity has continued several decades after its debut; toy company Mattel has made the 1966 Batmobile in various scales for the Hot Wheels product line. The Batmobile with Batboat was also produced under the Matchbox and Corgi names in the UK during this period. Warner Bros. acquired merchandising rights to the series in 2012 ...
The 1966–1968 television series Batman was so popular that its campy humor and its version of Batmobile were imported into Batman's comics. The iconic television Batmobile was a superficially modified concept car, the decade-old Lincoln Futura, owned by auto customizer George Barris, whose shop did the work. [11]
Barris's company, Barris Kustom Industries, designed and built the Munster Koach and DRAG-U-LA for The Munsters; and the 1966 Batmobile for the Batman TV series and film. Born in Chicago on November 20, 1925, Barris and his brother Sam moved to California to live with relatives. By his high school graduation, Barris had customized and sold ...
Batmobile (1966) Bill Cushenbery (March 22, 1933 – December 12, 1998) was an American car customizer , show car builder, and model kit designer. Cushenbery was a major influence on the look of custom cars and the customizing industry in general. [ 1 ]
Mego was a true pioneer in action figure development, responsible for creating the first carded action figure (for S. S. Kresge's), [5] The first exclusive figures (Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson for Montgomery Ward's) [6] and expanded their line to include the 1966 Batman TV series-style Batmobile, the Batcycle. and the Batcopter, as well as ...