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Is It The Batmobile?
| Unfortunately not. The fifties were the decade of the fins and although the ‘59 Cadillac’s were the tallest at 42 inches off the ground, the Batmobile had a lot more requirements than just big fins. The Batmobile was made out of a car that never made it to retail production. It was a 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car made for the Detroit Motorama shows by Ghia for $250,000. After touring the car show circuit it was sent back to California to be cast in the film “It Started With a Kiss”. After the movie was shot, it sat for years at Barris’s Kustom’s shop in California until he was contacted to build a car for the new ABC TV series based on the DC Comic characters. George Barris was given three weeks to have the car ready. Luckily, as you can see in the following pictures, the car needed only slight modifications. The chrome was replaced with body coloured pieces. “Jet Intakes were built into the sides and 3 missle pipes were added to the rear deck. The license plate was removed and replaced with a turbine exhaust port and the bubble glass was removed to make filming Adam West and Burt Ward possible without glare. The studio was able to obtain three of the Futura’s from Ford to make sure that Batman and Robin were never without wheels. |
| 1959 Cadillac Project Scrapbook Page 4 |
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