Gallery: Turbine-Powered Keaton-Era Batmobile Replica It works like the turbine-powered Indy cars or the Chrysler turbine car from the '60s. Even better, it's completely road-legal and titled. Wouldn't it be cool to have this as your daily driver?
Good news, Batman lovers! A fully functional Batmobile replica exists — and you can even drive it outside of Gotham City. Led by architect and artist Nguyen Dac Chung, the Vietnam-based Macro Studios used blueprints from Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy to faithfully recreate the movie's Tumbler vehicle.
We've seen other Tumblers before, some more drivable than others, but Marc Irvin has built one he claims is road legal, as showcased on The Stradman's YouTube channel. Although the scratch-built car is driveable, it's not fully finished.
In modern times, standard Batmobile equipment includes bulletproof wind-shields, ejector seats, automatic/voice-controlled pilot systems, radio links to the Batcave and Oracle, a customized GPS system, anti-theft devices, and infrared vision to allow stealth driving.
Did you know there were 4 license plates used on the. #1 Batmobile throughout the Batman TV show? They. were: 2F-3567, TP-6597, BAT-1 & ZEF 451. I have no clue what the numbers or letters represent.
Eight years ago, the iconic Batmobile that George Barris built for the 1966–68 Batman television series sold at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale for an astounding $4.62M. When it comes to replicas, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell put it best: “There ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby.”
Batman reveals that the Batmobile can reach a top speed of 230 miles per hour, making it faster than any legal nonracing car. The Batmobile's boost thrusters can push its speed to 350 miles per hour for a short duration.
Nguyen Dac Chung, 23, spent two years creating a replica of Batman's famous supercar. The two-seater retails for $35,000 and has falcon-winged doors. Nguyen made nine replicas of the Batmobile, seven of which have already sold.
A street-legal replica of the Batmobile from Christopher Nolan's Batman films—aka “The Tumbler”—has been built and is now being put up for sale to the general public for a cool $1 million. Yes, that's right, this vehicle is 100% legal to drive on normal streets.
The Batmobile is up for sale at Classic Auto Mall for $1.5 million and that's where you can go to take a look at more photos of what is sure to go down as one of the movie world's most iconic cars.
The Batmobile was built upon a Chevrolet Impala chasis with a Chevy V8 engine, and was based on and modified from a 1970 Corvette body when previous development with a Jaguar and Ford Mustang failed. A second car was based on an Oldsmobile Cutlass Convertible.
The Batmobile weighed an incredible 5,500 lbs., due to its all-steel body. It was powered by a 390 cu. in. V8 engine with a three-speed automatic transmission.
It doesn't look like there are any gas pumps inside the Batcave. And it would be pretty ridiculous if Batman just pulled the Batmobile up to a gas station and started filling up. But the fact Batman identifies the 14th gas tank explains a lot. This means that the Batmobile doesn't need to fill up like a regular car.
The Batmobile is measured at 20 ft. (6.1 meters) long and 12 ft. (3.7 meters) wide at the rear. The vehicle weighs in at 7,000 lbs and is estimated to reach up to 205 mph.
Batman gives chase in the Batmobile and is surprised at how the driver keeps ahead of him in a mere sedan. Batman's inner dialogue details that the Batmobile's top speed is 230 miles per hour, but it is capable of up to 350 miles per hour for only ten seconds when its thrusters are activated.
(There are even more detailed in published accounts, dating back to 1939 when Batman made his first comic book appearance.) But for purists, there is only one true Batmobile. The rest are just imitations of the original. What we have come to recognize in popular culture as the Batmobile was built in 1966.
The Batmobile used by actor Adam West in the original TV series of Batman has sold for $4.2m (£2.6m) at a US auction. The car was bought by Rick Champagne, a logistics company owner from Phoenix, Arizona. The 56-year-old, who was just 10 when the high-camp TV series began in 1966, said it "was a dream come true".
