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No it was based on The 1955 Ford Lincoln Futura which they did not release, but the 58/59 T-Bird tail Lights look a lot like it
Batman[edit]
Main articles: Batman (TV series) and Batman (1966 film)
The Batmobile as seen in the 1960s Batman TV series
In late 1965 20th Century Fox Television and William Dozier's Greenway Productions contracted renowned Hollywood car customizer Dean Jeffries to design and build a "Batmobile" for their upcoming Batman TV series. He started customizing a 1959 Cadillac, but when the studio wanted the program on the air in January 1966, and therefore filming sooner than he could provide the car, Jeffries was paid off, and the project went to George Barris.[13]
What became the iconic Batmobile used in the 1966–1968 live action television show and its film adaptation was a customized vehicle that originated as a one-off 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car,[14] created by Ford Motor Company lead stylists Bill Schmidt, Doug Poole Sr., and John Najjar[15][16] and their design team at the Lincoln Styling Department.
In 1954, the Futura prototype was built entirely by hand by the Ghia Body Works in Turin, Italy, at a reported cost of US$250,000—the equivalent of approximately US$2 million in 2009.[17] It made its debut in pearlescent Frost-Blue white paint on 8 January 1955 at the Chicago Auto Show.[18] In 1959, sporting a fresh red paint job, the Futura was featured in the film It Started with a Kiss, starring Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford.
Barris was trying to get Hollywood's attention with the Futura, which he had purchased from Ford for the nominal sum of $1.00 and "other valuable consideration",[19] but aside from its film appearance, the Futura had been languishing in his Hollywood shop for several years. With only three weeks to finish the Batmobile (although in recent years Jeffries says that his car was dropped because he was told it was needed in "a week and a half",[20] he was quoted in 1988 as saying "three weeks"[21] as well), Barris decided that, rather than building a car from scratch, it would be relatively easy to transform the distinctive Futura into the famous crime-fighting vehicle. Design work was conducted by Herb Grasse, working as an associate designer for Barris.
Posted on: August 26, 2015, 04:18:44 pm
Here is the Bat Mobile with its red paint job In the Debbie Reynolds movie It Started With A Kiss with Glen Ford,
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