The Batmobile Page #2

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in a big splash of gravel...

...trying not to hit anyone.

Because the kids loved it.

Come on, Robin. To the Batcave.

We haven't one moment to lose!

The Batmobile represents freedom

in a way because, as a kid...

...you completely lose yourself in the fantasy

of being that character...

...getting to drive that car.

I was probably 4 or 5

when I got a die-cast toy of it...

...and it had the jet burner on the back

and some orange flames.

I've got a couple of them. I've got the Matchbox

one since I was a kid. I still have it.

I've got a 16th scale and a 32nd scale.

My wife, when we were dating,

she walked into my place...

...and she said,

"You're one of those guys that...

...you know, you get nervous when you walk in

and see all the toys on your shelves."

The number one car

is what we call the hero car.

That is the original Batmobile

that the actual Futura was made from.

That is the car that used a lot of close-ups

on the stars in the car.

WOOD:
The car has been rebuilt

a couple of times...

...because when they wrecked it during

the filming of the TV show...

...they didn't have a stunt car for this

until later on.

We made five cars that were functional cars,

and two exhibition cars.

I pulled molds off of the original car...

...and all the expensive cars

were all made out of fiberglass...

...on Ford Galaxy chassis.

WOOD:
They went on tour,

they went around to supermarkets.

It brought hundreds of people.

To this day, 60 years later,

these cars still draw crowds...

...and they still go out on tour.

One Halloween evening

I got permission to take the Batmobile...

...and leave the studio...

...so I went trick-or-treating,

in costume, in the Batmobile.

I couldn't convince anyone to go with me.

They thought I was nuts.

[CLICKING TONGUE]

"Trick or treat."

"Oh, my God! There's Batman,

and look, there's the Batmobile!"

Oh. It was so funny.

And it lasted about three houses,

then I had to come back.

Well, we enjoyed driving it

many times for fun.

Batchutes, these are real parachutes,

the ones used for race cars.

I'm coming down the 101 Freeway

and I pop my Batchutes.

Going the other way

was a highway patrolman.

The Batmobile itself

that was in the TV show...

...actually works its way

into the comic books themselves...

...because the books want to be reflective

of the success the show was getting.

Super Friends TV show

started in the 1970s.

They also based their animated Batmobile

after the Lincoln Futura model.

Throughout the 1970s, there had

to have been about a dozen variations...

...and that continued through the 1980s.

There was no set template for a Batmobile.

You could turn to 1986, Frank Miller

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