The Batmobile: Custom Built

This lifesized model of the Batmobile from Batman: The Animated Series is amazing. More pics here, although this isn’t the website of the builder.

This Batmobile, dubbed Batmobile 2000, from actor, writer, screenwriter, photographer, illustrator and designer Christopher C. Canole, is so impressive that I believe it was mistakenly (?) rumoured to be for one of the films in the Burton-Schumacher era. The link has four pics with front, side and (very impressive) rear views, but since they don’t easily download I don’t want to step on Mr. Canole’s copyright and will just show the pic on the front page. Follow the link above and see all the amazing shots, though, and you won’t be disappointed. And Christopher, if you ever stumble across my site – wow!

This 22 foot long Batmobile was built by Oscar Pumpin, who was inspired by Batman Forever, and cost a reported $325,000. Again, plenty more photos at the link.

Willie J. Perry, the Batman of Birmingham, a man who spent all his time dressed up in a costume that resembled Evel Knievel more than the Caped Crusader, driving around in his suped-up 1971 Ford Thunderbird, dubbed the Rescue Ship, helping stranded motorists and being a good samaritan. Willie died when I was just a kid, asphixiated while working under his car in his garage, but he was a real life superhero (and a personal hero of mine). Here is his car:

Don’t know anything about this homemade Batmobile. I think the concept of it is perhaps a little cooler than the execution, at least around the windshield, but if it were a little less lumpy there it would be cool, and I love the hood/grill.

And what’s not to love about BMW’s latest, cloth-covered, shape-shifting “Batmobile-style” concept car, the Gina, which can change its shape at the touch of a button. Reportedly, “the headlights open like eyes from behind the stretchable fabric, which shifts at speed to make the car more aerodynamic.” Wow:

Still, my favorite is hands-down this 1989 Keaton Batmobile Replica, owned by Mark Shields, and built in 1991 by a design team out of none other than a classic 1978 Corvette!!! Yes, a Vette, and the result is somehow more sublte and better looking than the Keaton original. It’s apparently for sale for just $50,000, in case any of you are wondering what to get me for Christmas.