Bang! Pow! '60s-Style Batmobile Replicas for Sale

Yahoo ^ | September 28, 2010 | Claudine Zap

[Cowman]

Bang! Pow! '60s-Style Batmobile Replicas for Sale by Claudine Zap • September 28, 2010

DC Comics has officially licensed Fiberglass Freaks to re-create, down to the flame throwers (working, natch), the futuristic car that the Caped Crusader drove in the 1960s TV series.

For $150,000, you too could keep Gotham City safe. Or at least look really, really cool while sitting in traffic. Each car frame is built around a 1970s Lincoln Town Car. And only eight of these hand-crafted beauties roll off the factory floor each year. Company founder Mark Racop has been perfecting the design pretty much his entire life, way before he got the official go-ahead. According to his website, the Batmobile-obsessive fell in love with the car from the show at the tender age of two. The cars are road-ready and come equipped with a GM 350 crate engine, Radir wheels with custom bat spinners, and a paint job only a superhero wanna-be could love. And need we mention the bat-wing shaped tail fins? This car gives new meaning to joy ride.

[ASOC]

WOuld love to be able to purchase a reproduction Kübelwagen - minus the MG 42 of course.

[BlueLancer]

"WOuld love to be able to purchase a reproduction Kübelwagen - minus the MG 42 of course."

I always thought that the old Volkswagon "Thing" bore a pretty close resemblence to the Kubelwagen ...

[ASOC]

I owned a type 181 variant
SAFARI

Produced for the Mexican domestic market the Safari was also exported to countries to the south of Mexico. The Safari could run on lower grade Premex gasolines the Mexican domestic engines all had low compression pistons installed. The running gear was Bus, so it was listed (at least in my vehicle) was almost a ton.

Sold it - but not a good auto for a married guy with kiddos.