Transforming a $1 Lincoln Futura Into the Iconic 1966 Batmobile

[@ivanleterror9158]

When I was younger I built the model for that car. Don't remember if it was a Revell or Monogram kit. For a time the Futura sat in Barris's show room at his shop near Lankershim and Riverside Dr. in North Hollywood. When I would gas up at the Arco station on payday I would walk over and look in the window. When we heard that Batman was going to be a TV series I said they should take that car and make it the Batmobile. Darned if they did. Got a kick out of a custom golf cart Barris made for Bob Hope accentuating Hope's nose. It sat next to the Furura.

[@chaosonscreen]

So you're responsible for one of the coolest screen cars ever?! We're not worthy!

[@ronalderb9692]

George Barris, the god of custom.

[@chaosonscreen]

100% No one did iconic wheels like him.

[@bigsteed007]

Why would they ever put fuzz on the car???

[@chaosonscreen]

I know?! It was crazy right? Then again it's not the craziest thing that happened in the 80s

[@tsukishiro70]

Wait. Barris did two of the three cars that made the most impact on me as a child (KITT, and the Batmobile), with only Dave Starsky's "Red Tomato" - the red Ford Gran Torino being left out? Wow. Legendary.

[@chaosonscreen]

Yeah, his resume reads like a list of some of the best on screen cars ever made. What a hero!