Original Batmobile put up for sale in US

January 9, 2013 | World News | Written by

Sydney, Jan 9: One of Hollywood’s best-known cars, the futuristic Batmobile, is up for sale in the US.

The streamlined black roadster with fluorescent pinstripes was based on a 1955 Lincoln Futura design study built at the Ghia works in Turin, Italy.

According to the Age, car customiser George Barris bought the vehicle from the Ford Motor Company for the token price of one dollar and rebuilt it in just over two weeks in 1966.

The Batmobile featured twin bulletproof Plexiglass bubble windshields and huge chrome exhaust pipes poking out of the rear section, the report said.

A spokesman for the Scottsdale-based auction house Barrett-Jackson in Arizona state said it was hard to put a price on the car which goes up for sale together with other classic cars on Jan ary 19, it added.

According to the report, the firm had sold a replica of the Batmobile in 2009 for 165,000 dollars. (ANI)