On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:20 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" Subject: Re: Batman's car > for sale > > >> Well, no. Barris made at least four batmobiles, and several others were made >> by imitators. A number of them were used in the television show. The one >> that sold was the first to be built, but it wasn't all of the original, >> because many of the parts had been lost or broken over the years and were >> later replace by Barris to make it more appealing to a sucker -- I mean >> more marketable. It could never be restored as the Lincoln Futura because >> many of the Futura parts were discarded when Barris hacked it apart. No >> surprise there. Here's a batmobile I shot at the dream cruise last summer. >> It's identical to the one that was sold as far as I can tell, although it >> probably has a fiberglass body: >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16569630&size=lg >> > > Thats sort of like saying a kit car of a Cobra built on a Beetle Chassis has > the same panache as the real thing…. No, a kit car isn't the real thing, but the number two through 99 Cobras built by Shelby are the real thing, as are the number two through four batmobiles built by Barris. Assuming there's such a thing as a "real" batmobile, which is difficult since all of its features are mere decoration. Paul > > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
