Movie Cars: Lincoln Futura Batmobile 0
The original Batmobile was based on the Lincoln Futura concept car of 1955 made entirely by hand in Italy (on request of Ford Motors) by Ghia and presented as the “car of the future.” This car had a design cost a whopping 250,000 of dollars (if we index the prices of the time with today, would amount to about 3 million Euros), caused a sensation in the car shows across America by a couple before falling in the total lack of interest (and then forgetting) by motor racing fans.
It was then in 1965, after nearly a decade in the abandonment, the Futura was bought from Ford by George Barris, a director of the American television network ABC he was responsible for the design of a vehicle moved to the DC hero Comics by Gotham. He was by birth a star, and do not speak the Batman out of shape and painted eyebrows with a marker on the costume.
In just 3 weeks the Futura has changed (not much change was needed, really) to have an even more Gothic architecture in the broadest sense of the adjective.
Although this future is one of the cars less “amazing” to those used by the super heroes (including the evolution of the Batmobile in the movies of Burton, Schumacher and Nolan), will always be in a privileged place in the collective memory to be a of the first cars modified to serve the fight against crime … at least on TV.