When I was a kid in the early 70’s Batman reruns would come on when I got home from school. That Batmobile IS the only one as far as I’m concerned! That was an awesome look at it, great job!👍

Boy that sure brings back memories My Dad was a policeman in Ashland Ky in 1968 I was about 8 years old and a BIG Batman fan the car was in town on display he took me where it was staged and I got to sit in it It was a childhood Dream I’ll never forget Thanks!!!

Couldn't have picked a better car to feature for your 50th video. Congrats!

It’s obvious a lot of work went into this one. Very interesting and watchable. Many thanks.

I have to sadly admit, that I lived near the Volo museum and haven't yet visited it. Your videos have shown me that that next time I go back home... I have to visit Volo.

Haven't watched the vid yet and I already gave it a like. The original bat mobile is one of my dream cars. I have pics of my wife and myself in a barris blessed repop. Was an awesome day sitting behind the wheel and calling commissioner Gordon on the bat phone.

Outstanding as always. I never knew about the 390 engine! Thank you for your continued work ~ Chuck

Very cool 10 fax about the Batmobile and Congratulations on this being your 50th video 🎉😊👏👏

this was an amazingly detailed video. well worthy of the 50th slot. you uped the game with this one my friend. well done. and thank you for all the education you bring to us. (hell i'm 63 y/o and had never heard of the original Batman series)

I was 5 years old in 1966. And smart enough to know this was a show so corny it was cool. I had an Aurora slot car Batmobile. Our house got broken into and some scumbag stole it.

Great 50th video, my friend! Fantastic job as always 👏

I was never a fan of the show but my wife has the signatures of the Actors who played Batman and Robin. She was very little when her parents ran into them on one of their many trips around the world.

Holy Batman! George and his guys built the Batmobile in 3 weeks! George truly is the GOAT

Brilliant Your best video yet! Keep them coming!

Great video! We care for #4 at the Petrol Lounge in Austin, TX. Another factoid is #4 was the only fiberglass bodied Batmobile that was actually used on the show. #1 was damaged (or broken down) while filming an episode and #4 happened to be available. The episode was "The Contaminated Cowl". #4 still has the crazy engine and the the owner drives it regularly weather permitting.

Fantastic video and thanks for creating this!

Man, another great video! I recall an interview with Adam West where he mentioned how poor the brakes functioned and there were many near collisions on set. Keep up the fantastic work!

Great video. Brought back incredible memories.

Was waiting for this one.

Outstanding video!!!! Just found you channel, subscribed!!

Huge fan of this 60s tv show 😊

The one time the hood was open in the show the engine was covered in a black cloth. Its when a bad guy put a bomb under the hood. They didn’t show much of the engine compartment, just at an angle.

Thank you very much, CarStarz, for uploading this video so that I can see it again in the near future very soon. Please have a nice day today. ™ November 08, 2023 @ 8:25 am ™

Funny how the latest Batmobile went back to be more of a street car like the 60's Batmobile.

Nice job on this video. Lots of cool facts.

Great vid again. Love your work on these. Keep them coming.

Number 3 used to be owned by a gentleman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He purchased it from Barris I believe in the 1980's. I remember reading a newspaper article about it and how it had been a childhood dream to own one. I met him in person in 2001 at a local car meet. He said when purchased, the body was mounted to the chassis with wooden 2X4's, and he had to make numerous modifications to make sure it was safe to Street drive. It was beautifully kept, and drew a bigger crowd than another guy's brand new Lamborghini

Nice job, very interesting 👍

I consider this Batmobile the coolest out of all of them.

Great video another fact Adam west that played batman on the TV show requested they replace the cool half steering wheel because he said it was difficult the drive the car sow they replaced it with a steering wheel from a Ford Edsel

🦇Great vid, really enjoyed!🦇

Turbines to speed, great memories, 🤗👍👍✌

50 Congrats ! ...... and who doesn't love the O.G. Batmobile!

The steering wheel in the the Batmobile is a altered Teletouch from a 1958 Edsel.

I never knew that the original car was made from a concept car! I always thought it was made from a pontiac or an old Lincoln. Thanx For The Knowledge!!!!! I love that car STILL!!! I actually saw a replica of one on the highway in Pennsylvania!!! I was driving along in my 08 Pontiac G8 and out of nowhere the BatMobile passes me! I was in a bit of a shock! I caught up to it and the operator said he was on his way to a Children’s Hospital for an event. 😎👍🏽

🏆Batmobile 💥🍀got R done 😆✌️

That was an excellent episode!

My father, Jim Stephenson, worked at Barris Kustom for quite a few years. He was the shop manager there for most of those years and I started working there with him in 1973 when I was just 14 years old. My father didn't build any of the Batmobiles, but did do a bit of work on them over the years and I got to ride in the original one with my father in the Huntington Park Christmas parade around 1973-74. That was quite a day too. My father was driving the Batmobile and I was sitting in Robin's seat, but we weren't allowed to dress up as Batman and Robin for legal reasons so it was a bit weird for spectators to see two "nobodies" driving it. The parade was being broadcast nation wide live on TV and by the time we got to where the TV cameras and bleachers were the Batmobile was overheating and it blew one of the radiator hoses while we were sitting still waiting to move into the camera range and steam was billowing out from under the car. It looked like a cool "special effect" but it was a serious problem for my father and I. We were finally waved into the the camera section and then told to wait while the announcers talked about the Batmobile for a few minutes, and just moments before they were finished the engine quit running and then they waved us on to move out of the camera section and my father told me "get out and push the car!" I was just a little dude and that car probably had a half a ton of lead on the steel body, but I jumped out and start pushing hard as I could and, lucky for me, a few other guys came running out and helped us push it out of the camera range and off to the side of the street. That was my first, and my last, appearance on nationwide TV. Hard to imagine that car being sold for $4million. That's just stunning.

Great video. I live in NJ and see #3 around quite a bit.

It cost Ford $250,000 to build the concept car. That same year they spent $325,000 on toilet paper.

I thought I knew most everything about the 1966 Batmobile, but you hit on a few things that I was unaware of. Good job! I have the models you spoke of and a few more. Just received a Jazzinc 1/6 scale version and am trying to figure out how to display it. Don't worry...I'll get it done.

Very detailed study! I never knew of the 40s Batman. Need to look it up now.

Doing the 1966 Batmobile just opened up new doors for more videos covering the other Batmobiles from each of the other movies, and since we're on the topic of 60s cars, is there a Monkee-mobile video in the works?

I saw one of these at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas in 1970. Thanks for sharing.

i have the series on bluray, you can definitely see how used it is, you can see all the scratches and hand smudges all over it, it looks like nobody ever washed and waxed it.

This is THE Batmobile! No other version will do. Thanks for sharing!

I am 61. Great memories. Awesome vídeo. Amazing job. Greetings from Brazi.

Cool.👍 Polar lights makes 1/25 scale plastic batmobile, and a 1/25 scale snap kit with figures.

Your videos just keep coming, I'm loving it!! Just letting you know that the history of Disney's The Love Bug and it's sequels have way to many Volkswagens used for tricks so that'll be a pain to do. I'm a Herbie fan and there are a lot left from the first and sequels. I'm looking forward to others you'll bring 😎👍👍💯💯

Yep, the original Batman. Of all the “Batmobile’s” this is still my favorite. The later movie cars are ugly. Thanks for another great video and story.

The Batmobile was in a movie before Batman. It starred Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford.

A really great job on this video. I was a big fan of the show in 1966. I have also always been a Ford guy. This is, bar none, the coolest car ever built. I want at least one of the available models, but sadly I am 67 and in minimizing mode, selling off most of my toys. I appreciate you providing ALL the facts and answering all the questions. Too many replicas claiming or inferring that theirs is the original car or one of the 4. It was like when I went to the Rock N Roll Hall of fame in August 2002 and saw The "John Lennon" army jacket/shirt and two weeks later, went to London and entered their "Hard Rock Cafe" ":Vault" where they had "The Lennon Coat".

Hi again

Cool looking car. This channel is awesome. Up next, Black Trans Am from corvette summer !!

That was fun thanks Never missed a show as a kid always come on at 3:00pm every day 😊

Excellent video! You hit upon many facts that just a few short years ago were known by only a few. There are a handful of additional details for the curious: 1) the high-res 1955 Lincoln Futura footage was of a fiberglass replica (the world's first) that Bob Butts built and is now owned by ventriloquist Jeff Dunham; 2) the Volo Museum 1966 Batmobile replica was built by Peter Borne, not by BKI; 3) the replica shown with the autographs on the door tops was built by John Brighton, not by BKI; 4) the one-of-a-kind 1955 Lincoln Futura steering wheel was thrown away (!) and replaced with a 1958 Edsel steering wheel in third season; 5) the #1 car was driven at 70MPH for the helicopter shot in the Batman movie by stuntman Hubie Kerns; 6) the car that the Barris family currently owns (nicknamed the #2) was built by Bob Butts, and it should really be called the #6. Again, you did a great job with the video. It is obvious that you did a ton of homework to break through the 'smoke and mirrors.'

I had two model Batmobiles my father bought me as a 6 year old in '66 and almost immediately lost them both. Made of all steel by now-defunct Aurora Plastics, it was the most beautiful toy I ever had.

There was a version of the 1966 Batmobile at Fan Expo Canada (in Toronto) in 2016 that for $20 (Canadian) you could sit in it - which I did. Banged my head on the rear windshield getting in.

Years ago, I saw one of the Batmobiles at a car/outdoor show. It is, in real life, an awesome car.

@7:40 All I can really say is Wow!!! There are too many reasons to give props to this replica! I'm not a huge Batman or even comic book fan. I'm more looking at it from an attention to detail, engineering,overall finished product. Alot of hard work and I'm sure it's gets Alot of Smiles per gallon!!!

Still the coolest Batmobile of them all. Love it! I want one.

For quite a few years I assumed the batmobile was a 66 Pontiac Catalina. LOL

While far from the "best" diecast version, surely the one everyone had and remembers fondly is the Corgi one. Lots of different version were made over a long run, they're a little challenging to restore thanks to the moving parts

Do a youtube of the Magnum PI Ferrari 308.

Love that car!

The 1949 Batman serial used a 1949 Mercury convertible, again top-down for Bruce Wayne and top up for Batman.

Cool😀

One scale model not mentioned is that Revell did a 1/25 model kit of the original Lincoln Futura that they've reissued several times since the '90s. It was originally tooled in 1957-58 and wasn't state-of-the-art even then so it has things like a multi-piece body.

The Batmobile #1 was used by Debbie Reynolds in a parade in about 1958. It was flamingo red in color. It was parked in the front lot of Barris Custom City on Riverside Dr. For at least 5 years just taking in the sunshine like any other used car. I was 10 years old then. I personally knew Victor MacLeod, screenwriter for the first batman. If you search for Debbie Reynolds parade, you might see her in it. I am not sure which Los Angeles parade it was. Yes, if you search for her name and Glenn Ford and “Futura” you will see more photos. Yes, try “It started with a kiss” movie. This futura was used in that movie.

1:24 Bat phone, Bat compass, Bat radar & radar screen, Bat fire extinguisher, Bat fire engine battery selection switch, Bat "Emergency Turn Lever", and Bat tuck and roll leather seating. They were certainly ahead of their time in the design, and that's no Bat bull.

Very cool video. Pretty crazy if the studio was too cheap to give the car a tune-up over the course of the seasons. I could see when production first began but hard to believe it was never done throughout the years it was on. Although Hollywood also was too lazy and cheap to buy the proper rounds for the crow, so maybe not too surprising.

now to be fair you should do one from THE GREEN HORNET BLACK BEAUTY

I'd like to see the Nash Bridges car and some interesting facts

#3 has been at several car shows here in NJ over the years. I gotta say, I always thought it was a well done replica, not one of the actual cars! Love the videos, keep it up! 😊

Appreciate the video. Would never have guessed the short time line for creating the original TV car. That may explain its subpar paint job I noticed when recently watching an episode on MeTV.

Went to your page, gotta give some love to The Black Beauty a true supercar.

'Holly CarStarz' how did you manage to get the batmoble it's impossible without your secret password my buddy this is great achievement for yourself with 50th video showing up on nighttime as most appropriate choice for me to know that batman is roaming gotham right now in the batmoble so that you bro for not letting penguin and joker get there hands on it i got to go see you later bye now. P.S Hey CarStarz you know next week is christine video so yeah we are ready for best one yet😱😱.

This and other tv/movie cars earned their keep touring the world in displays and car shows. I used to keep my race car in a storage unit when I was between houses for a while. In 1987 the munsters car and the batmobile were in the unit left and right of me . Don't know if the batmobile was a replica but it definitely was drivable. It was actually pretty rough anywhere closer than about 20 feet.

Another great video about a legend of a car, I wasn't aware that there was more than one made for filming. The thought of paying $4.6 million for a car fills me with dread, I wouldn't dare go near it or move it on the road for fear of damage lol

Another fun fact that about Barris Batmobile it was on display at Universal Studios in 1994 and 1995 during the construction of Terminator 2 3D. Several other Barris Hollywood vehicles were on display. I still kept the Universal Studios map with his Barris Movie And T.V. and one photo of the Batmobile.

Imagine if there was a television series as we have them today on these car building shows- that was in Barrie’s’ garage as they created concepts and builds of the iconic cars he created.

Do the 71 chevelle from convoy next

@CarStarz. Love this channel. May I make some suggestions for some TV/Movie cars to cover, please? I already suggested Drag-U-La, which you were receptive of. 1. Miami Vice Ferrari Daytona and/or Testarossa 2. A-Team GMC van 3. Starsky and Hutch Torino 4. Magnum P.I. Ferrari 308 GTS 5. Herbie Volkswagen Beetle 6. Ferris Bueller Ferrari 250 California 7. Fast and Furious Green Mark 3 Supra or Mitsubishi Eclipse 8. The Monkey-mobile...Pontiac? 9. Mr. Bean's Green Mini Cooper 10. Green Hornet's car 11. Big Lebowski's car 12. The Junk Man Yellow C3 Corvette 13. BJ McKay's Cab over Kenworth?

Fact #11: The Thing fits in there perfectly! Stan Lee said so and I believe him.

Batman series was a super cool show to watch.

The one fact that shocked me was the 1940s Batman show. They looked almost identical to the later 1960s show. The batmobile that came later was absolutely needed but the fights were very well filmed and staged. Love how George Barris created that muscly batmobile out of the Jetson's - like Futura. Also love how they sinc'ed the turbine wail to the 1960s batmobile as it drove around. Looks and sounds very convincing. Thank you for this list of facts.

I went to a car show in the late 70's and they had the Batmobile or a replica. It had scratches and gouges all over it.

In the late 60's - early 70's, the Batmobile I saw at the Cincinnati Cavalcade Of Customs was finished in a flocking material.

Years ago I was watching an interview with Adam West talking about his time making the Batman series. He said admittedly he was a horrible driver. So if you watch the original series closely you’ll see plenty of his sketchy driving.

In 1966 when I was 12 I bought the corgi CO RGI Batmobile it has the gold wheels with the bat flag in the middle. It’s in the presentation box. It has both Batman and Robin inside the vehicle. I would play with it, wipe it down, clean it, put it back in the box, I never really took it out to play with it play with it I would just take it rolled around wipe it down and put it back in the box to this day. I still have it and I’m really surprised of the one toy that was available in 1966 you did not cover the corgi 66 Batmobile that would’ve been on the top of the listat the time I think I paid seven or eight dollars for it last I heard about 67 years ago it was around 600. I have no idea where it’s at now but I still have it.

i live in virginia! i knew about the coba mercury being here but did not know about batmobile 1 & 2 being here

I’ve got a large format Hotwheels Batmobile signed by Barris, Burt Ward, Yvonne Craig, Adam West and Julie Newmar. My prize collectible in my Batcave.

Years ago, I was very privileged to view a private car collection. I'm a die hard Mopar fanactic. I wanted to see the Mopar cars this person had. We went and viewed the cars when I turned to the side and my jaw must-have dropped to the floor and I saw The Monkeemobile. I was looking at that in disbelief when the owner said, "You missed this." It was one of the original Batmobiles. When I left after talking with the owner and viewing this perhaps once in a lifetime experience, my head was in the clouds! After years of seeing many incredible vehicles, I once saw a Rolls Royce with an extended truck for shopping that belonged to, I believe Princess Anne of England. The owner even offered to let me sit it the drivers seat. I politely declined. I do not believe I will ever see a collection like the one with the Batmobile.

Interesting story about the numbered batmobiles sounds A LOT like the number of KITT's as in AJ's at the Peterson museum and Joe's in his garage.

There was a batmobile built in 1956 on an oldsmobile which some argue is the first custom batmobile.

I never seen the 1940s batman series! Have to get a ful collection of all these series.

I saw one of the promotional Batmobiles as a kid, and even though I probably wasn't even 10 years-old, it was pretty clear it wasn't the "real" Batmobile.

Atomic batteries to power, Turbines to speed, Roger! Ready to move out!

I say this drive past me in suburban philly about a month ago. it just drove past. I was hsppily in the passanger seat so could gorp at it but it was just 'oh wow' moment

Holy smokes batman ,another great feature.