I don't know how George Barris got all the credit for Designing the Batmobile when he had a 90% platform

George Barris took this prototype and made it immortal.... God bless you George.... and Batman

Bro! This is beautiful! I thought it was real until I noticed the wood underneath your model. I'm an old man, but as a kid I was most proud of my '65 El Camino in purple & orange 2-tone. Another notable model was the Undertaker Dragster. I painted it to match the picture on the box. My first model was a Ford GT-40. That one was spray painted dk blu metallic / hand painted white stripes. I was too young and it was too advanced for me. And I barely remember a '29 Cadillac, the "gangster car" complete with a gangster on the running board holding a Thompson submachine gun. Thanks for posting this (11 years ago! (now 2023)) I just found it and I had a flood of memories of my youth ❤

Yes, the '55 Futura definately ended up being the original Batmobile.

when I was 5 years old, in 1955, my family took a trip to California. We had just eaten at a cafe, and my mother was at the cash register paying the check. There was a toy rack, like the old comic book racks that spun around, and on the rack was a model of the Futura. I begged, but mom wouldn't buy it for me. We got back on the highway, and a few minutes later, going the other way, was the actual Futura! It was the original pale green color. What a religious experience for a 5 year old!

Most of it was already there, but for GB to transform it in less then a month was incredible. Both cars are just beautiful.

I thought this was a real car to start with. LOVE seeing it in its original splendor.

Very interesting..So, this car was a star 10 years before Batman. I can see why they used this... They really didn't change much.... Badass!

That looks better than the Batmobile ever did. Great job, well done.

Incredible job with the car. I still build models based on the 60 & 70 popular shows & movies. I am clear coating from now on. what a difference.

This car and the 57' Chevy are my two favorite cars. The beauty, artistic in design. The style and look and the sounds these cars make are unheard of today. Even just closing a door sounds like music to my ears. Solid. Not just some cheap metal and plastic screwed together. These weren't cars, they were Automobiles. To me there is a difference. The early 70's perhaps late 60's the Automobile died in favor for cheap easily produced mass marketed junk. Unless you get something like a Bugatti, Lamborghini, or something else in that price range, you aren't going to feel the quality of a true Automobile, just perhaps a nice car. Hell, Cadillacs aren't even Cadillacs anymore. Sickens me.

I Love This Build Mike!!! Great To See It Again!!! Incredible Finish!!!

Great music. Great car. Great reproduction. Paint is stunning.

Nice Model,a lot of detail !!! We now know where the BATMOBILE came from !!!

Whoever built that model did a good job. I built models all the time in my younger years and can't believe the price of them today. They were $5 and $10 when I was in the hobby and was part of Revell community.

The Futura is a magnificent piece of machinery!

If you know the history of the 1966 Batmobile then you know that the vehicle started out as the Lincoln Futura, which was featured in the film “it started with a kiss”…. Since it didn’t have an Air conditioner it must have been fun to drive around in the summer time…. Anyway, cool build. If you have a 66 Batmobile, you should ‘park’ the 2 together

I'm wondering what the price tag would've been back then cause people's paying huge money for a replica and I can only imagine what the original Futura and Batmobile sold for...Gotham Garage done a fine job on both the Futura and the Batmobile, plus he has 2 vehicles in the Peterson Museum. An XR7 and the Speed Racer car. I probably got both wrong but I think I'm sorta close to what they are lol

Great vid, thanks...combo of model, movie and music is really interesting and educational...and great work on the model too. I'd always thought that Barris did the BM from imagination...didn't realise he had most of the styling done for him...

2023........I have this model from Revell that I bought more than 20 years ago. I never built it as I was already an adult and age 49. I love the box graphics and I keep it on display in room with my other collectibles from my youth and beyond. Its 2023 I am 69 presently, I have no plans on building it. I have no idea whether I could sell it for a profit, ( like on E-bay or Etsy) as I think Revell keeps manufacturing that model, for retail sales in hobby stores. The color it was produced in as a model is a very nice sea-foam green,...no gloss. In my youth in the 1960s, I was an avid plastic model builder. I even customized them, with add-on parts from my other models, and in some cases I modified the bodies, with plastic putty, that I sanded smooth, and used an airbrush to paint them. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and they would have model building contests, run by local hobby stores, where one could compete with other's, creations. I entered those contests yearly, and even won one year. I was awarded a certificate and my name appeared in our local newspaper. It was for a customized model of a VW Beetle. I added custom tires, and sculpted the fenders, with add-on putty. Many years later when I became a professional artist, I would utilize my teenage years' model building skills, in my sculptures. I would do custom painting, with spatter techniques. One of my jobs along the way was building displays for retail stores. Each display was different and sometimes I had to build things from scratch, and even work on things that were miniature in scale. Some things I built for retail stores, were sent to other companies, to be replicated and set up in national stores. So I was building the "original", which was later copied, to be used in stores that were in other parts of the USA. Working for a "design" company, meant the individual designer, is never credited for their creations. All the credit and recognition goes to the company, which employed us. No big deal, that is how that industry works.

George Barris had one heck of a cool car to start out with to begin with and slaps some paint tear off the center dome section slap on sum cagers with batman center caps and he sales it for $4.2 million 40 some years later... wise investment georgy !

Wonderful video. Great job on the model, too! WOW!

With the right paint job, that could be a bat car. Love the look!

WOW!!! The paint looks amazing! I like the way you edited the video too!

The girl in the car following the Futura is one of the Gábor sisters...Eva from Green Acres

Ah, you excelled yourself this time my friend! Great video and an element of education - I didn't realise that this was pre-Batmobile!

If George Barris had gotten hold of this to work his magic prior to the car show circuit that car would have been produced! The "Bat" version is SO MUCH BETTER! ...Nice job on the model & the vid.

That's incredible!! And that paint job is stunning!!! My new grail kit LOL Really excellent work!!

I can't overstate my disappointment that those futuristic looking cars we were promised in our youth turned out to look like electric razors. Nice looking model!

"Haven't I seen this car somewhere before?" Great line!

Wow! Now that is a great experience! Thanks for sharing that!

A stunning car and a glorious model.

Superb paint - BRAVO!

Chills all around? Thanks, great job and vid!

Fantastic paint job! Great work! And thanks for the film clips.

He stuck shit on it like a cake decorator......viola!.I'm a genius....

This was the episode when Jonathan Kent owned the Batmobile.

Did you get the message, dear? A multimillionaire in Gotham City named Bruce Wayne wants to buy your car!

Yup, great paint. It kinda looks like a die-cast body. I've never seen this kit, but I built a couple of Batmobiles in the '70s I seem to remember they weren't great either. Good job 👍

My brother had that model in the mid 60's , cool 😎

A TIMELESS CLASSIC!!!

WOW! THE ORIGINAL BATMOBILE. THE LEGENDS LIVES!

Loved the intro to the video! and the movie clips throughout, Nice idea! Great looking model and it looks funny in the movie seeing it that way. Fantastic work, it actually looks like a diecast with that finish :-)

Essa modelo de 1955 foi o midelo usado pra montar o carro do Batman da década de 60".....

Wow! That’s cool as hell man! Absolutely brother!

Wow that's awesome I love that beautiful. Car.

Great paint job, cool. Nice video too ! 🙂

took the words out a my mouth, the bat an this car both are nice.

great clip thanks amazing model :)

Wow......thanks for posting !!!!!!!

very well done !, the finish is tops !

Good deal Mike, I dig it buddy! I been wanting that model kit, I've seen the Futura kit at different sites just wasn't sure about it, but seeing it now, oh yeah I definitely gotta have it! Beautiful paint job on it! And I forgot about that movie, hadn't seen that for quite a while either!

Have to ask...Do you know anything about a "metal version" of this car sold as a toy in the late 50's? I had one but have never seen another. My best recollections of it are: about 18-20" long / working bubble top, doors, hood, trunk, and a friction motor that shot sparks! I was very young at the time ...haven't a clue what ever happened to it. I seem to recall it being red and pre-dating the "Bat mobile redo". I was born in 53 and had a number of "promotional cars" as dad was a car dealer.

Holy Orange Crate, THAT'S THE BATMOBILE !!!

And let's not forget the 2 stars who showed that car off, Ms. Debby Reynolds and Mr. Glenn Ford!

Dude - this is absolutely AMAZING!! Please any tips re paint colour used (including gloss) and how many coats and if you sanded/polishes in between? First time builder absolutely cant wait to do this!

Lived in Detroit---Old Man worked for Ford-- he brought it home once in pre-Batmobile days.

Buddy YOU can paint....... wow! curby

Amen brother. Barris claims to have made the starsky & hutch gran torino, monkeemobile, black beauty and many more. I wish people would stop giving barris any attention at all.

This was a good looking car already , but it always is irratating to hear George Barris built the Batmobile he was central in giving this car a facelift not building it but also its always forgotten to mention the actual guys that did the work on the car ,yes I love the 66 Batmobile it's a car that to this day makes me feel like a kid ,also remember that there were builders at Lincoln and at Barris's that were integral in the design of the early Futuara and the later 66 Batmobile these men are never mentioned all you hear is Barris sorry Barris family but he was a good salesman but builder I think not it was the men he had working in the shop that got him where he was .

Great find (the film with the original Futura) !!

The red dress at the beginning was the most spectacular thing in this video

Absolutely awesome vehicle. Of course it is the Batmobile, before it was the Batmobile lol.Sure would’ve been nice for you to open up the doors, trunk, and hood, to view it completely. Of course peeking at the bottom, would’ve made my day.

Great model 👍

Cool model! On side note Debbie Reynolds was smokin af dang!

Nice Oak driveway !! lol seriously well done video and model, both of them

Lisa Douglas, pre-Hooterville, 4:48. Wonderful, Dahling.

Fantastic Post !

55 Lincoln Futura, a Ford product.

How did you built it? awesome job love it!

Stunning

Muchas gracias por TU ayuda mi angueles

great fun WORTH ALL YOUR EFFORTS

George is also responsible for the Munster Koach and Dragula

A nice paint job on the model car

Excellent model. Wish there was one of the Chrysler Norsemen

No I've never seen that toy. Sounds cool!

Hi. Just saw this. Beautiful job! Is this the 1/25 scale model? Would you happen to know the dimensions of the car - in inches? Also, you said the model was lousy. How so? I was thinking of buying and building one as well. Im new to building a model kit - was this a tough project?

THIS CAR IS BEAUTIFUL !!! I am sooo jealous !!! Guess what I'm buying when I hit Lottery!!! lol 😂

Beautiful car """!

You do good work.

I think I would buy one of it had a nice LS engine turbocharged or supercharged with a lease to 6 speed transmission. Perfect car to cruise around the highway or in around town. And maybe with electric clutch and electric electric shift shifting that would be awesome course automatics almost can do the same thing something to think about paddle shifting.

Wow I could see this car been a classic super hero of the 50 and 60”s vehicle like the green hornets Black Beauty or Batman’s bat mobile

*The twin bubble canopies is what makes this car incredibly unique and awesome, Unfortunately it also makes it impractical. Who wants to drive around exposed in the bubble canopy, except me of course*.

Does it come in black??

Great work

The bonneville concept was cooler. But I've always liked the windshield wipers on this one.

SO COOL!

I used to build model cars as a kid, but I could never imagine a model car could look as good as the one you've built. Excellent work. When I look at the Futura I see hints of the '58 Fairlane (except for the seating). Was the Futura a concept car?

That's tight, robbin, old chum, TO THE BAT POLES!!!!!!

So George Barris basically just did a paint scheme and added some child like looking toys in order to create the Batmobile?.

1955 the year when I arrived to this planet ...wow !!!

looks like a 58 Thunderbird with a jet plexiglass cockpit slapped on top

It's Eva. RIP

Wow,Wow&WOW!!!!!!! This car and this video!!!!!!!! 🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

This is the same car that sold for 4 million dollars as the Batmobile!! Driven all over Spain and Europe!!

@TheSlick1962 That's Testors high gloss,7 coats

They can take this car and remake back to the Future with this model looks like it was built on a t-bird or Lincoln chassis.

I LOVE IT!!!

As Bruce Wayne said after listening to the Rolling Stones..."I see a red car and I want it painted black. No colours any more, I want them to turn black."