News: Original Batmobile sells for $4.2-million
This could just be The Joker's most cunning plan. Crank up the price of the Batmobile to a point where even billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne can't afford it anymore and Batman has to get the bus.
Well, perhaps that's reading too much into it, but the Batmobile has just sold for auction in the US for the eye-watering price of $4.2-million. Holy exchange rate, Batman. The car, as driven in the original 1966 TV series starring Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin, was created by legendary car customiser George Barris, who based it on a Lincoln concept car called the Futura.
The car, and a pile of original documentation and design drawings, were sold to car collector Rick Champagne, who has promised to tear down a wall of his Arizona home and put the famous car in his living room.
