[Tigers] off Topic - Batmobile/Futura

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This car sat out day and night in No Hollywood at the corner of Lankershim  
and Riverside. Guess George wanted someone to steal it.
 
 
In a message dated 1/18/2013 6:26:36 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
rande at thecia.net writes:

I think  it was TTAC (The Truth About Cars) site that did a recent 
discussion
of the  Batmobile, part of it being someone was offering to make copies of 
it
for  sale, and part of the response back from posters was a slam on George  
Barris
for his conversion of a FoMoCo prototype Lincoln Futura into  Batman&Robin's
ride.

I should ask John how many versions Ford  built of the Futura, as the most 
popular
photo is of the white car from  around 1955-6, but in the Glenn Ford / 
Debbie
Reynolds 1959 film 'It  Started with a Kiss', one of the stars of that film 
was
a red version of  the Futura. Was there at least two cars, or just another 
paint
job for the  only one?

At the time, and a little later, American manufacturers were  prone to 
destroying
show cars when they were done with them, because even  driveable cars 
weren't
deemed safe enough to sell to the public, so I was  fine with Ford turning a
Futura over to Barris. Nowadays, folks like  Chicago's Joe Bortz go out of 
their
way to find and restore old prototypes,  while reassuring car makers that 
they
won't drive their prototypes to the  supermarket.  
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