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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]
The Batmobile as seen in the 1960s Batman TV series. Photo by Jennifer Graylock. According to Barris, some of his first film work was making soft aluminum fenders for a police car that crashes into the rear of a Mercedes-Benz convertible in North by Northwest. The idea was to give the collision a comedic quality while also preventing serious ...
In October 1965, Barris hired Cushenbery to do the metalwork that would turn the Lincoln Futura concept car into the Batmobile car featured in the 1960s Batman television series. The original contract specified a list of modifications required by the studio. [21] The conversion was completed in three weeks at a cost of US$30,000.
By Peter Valdes-Dapena NEW YORK -- The Batmobile used in the 1960s "Batman" TV series is expected to go up for auction in January, the Barrett Jackson auto auction house said Thursday. The car ...
A picture of a Batmobile 1992 from the film "Batman Returns" ahead of the Batmobile's appearance at the 71st annual Meguiar's Detroit Autorama at the Huntington Place March 1-3 in Detroit.
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]
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 ...
A 20-year-old California man was detained for allegedly planning a mass shooting at a government building in a parallel and coordinated attack with the teenage girl who gunned down two people at a ...