The first Batmobile sold $ 137 K

For many of us, myself included, the first Batmobile is signed George Barrris, yet it is not. Indeed, the one you see here was born in 1963, 2 years before the copy of the King of Kustomizers. The car is designed by a Forrest Robinson and assembled with the help of his friend Len Perham. It benefits from the DC Comics license, so this is a real Batmobile.

The working base is a 1956 Oldsmobile 324 engine and its famous Rocket (5.4 liters). It develops 230 horsepower at 4400 rev / min and 475 nm to 2800 rev / min. The body is completely changed and the dimensions of the car are 5.18 x 2.11 meters.
Initially, Robinson uses the fruit of his labor as a car every day but now, America succumbs to Batmania and beautiful made enough sense for ALL STAR Dairies and its subsidiary, New Hampshire Green Acres Ice Cream (which holds a DC Comic Book license) to rent, to repaint the official colors of Batman (she was the silver base), paste it official badges superhero and use it as a promotional tool. The Batmobile is the US turn until the end of 1966 and then returned to her owner. The latter, who needs cash, sells it a year later for $ 200, his work is abandoned and forgotten in a field for 50 years.
In 2008, this custom was rediscovered by a Bobby Smith, a resident of Swanzey, New Hampshire, and ends with George Albright who carries out comprehensive research on it.
In February 2013, Toy Car Exchange LLC bought the Batmobile and it restored by Borbon Fabrications located in Sacramento, California. At the beginning of the year, she remade a public appearance in Sacramento Autorama, the oldest auto show in the USA, and mounts on top of the podium, nose beard legends like the Shelby Cobra, in the category of sports handmade.
Yesterday, the house Heritage Auctions sold the 1963 Batmobile auction for 137,000 dollars, far from 4.2 million the first George Barris Batmobile.

Via Heritage Auctions

The first Batmobile sold $ 137 K 2014-12-07T05:31:00-08:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Abdul Aziz