[Tigers] off Topic - Batmobile/Futura

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

and there it is, right inside the window on Google Earth.

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Michael Shortt

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:03 PM, <AAAGLASSS at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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