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 ❤

@Toppervision1

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment, you're talking my language! Sounds like great builds in the past from you. Browse around my videos. You'll find some unique models. Have a good one my friend.

@savage22bolt32

Жыл бұрын

@@Toppervision1 I saw your El Camino, a later model than mine. That's what started the cascade of my old memories! I subbed, so I can see all your vids!

@Toppervision1

Жыл бұрын

@@savage22bolt32 Great. And I know the El Camino you're mentioning. I'd like that one too. :)

@mgman6000

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful model in the '60s when I was a teenager I used to build model cars and customize them the best one was a '36 Ford AMT kit I put a '32 Ford grille sideways with '61 Chrysler headlights I Detailed the engine using thread for the plug wires and cut the doors open and did the seats with ribbed ribbon Painted it candy pagan gold and first place in a local shop in the senior division. I'm getting too old and shaky to build them anymore but I really enjoyed building them

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

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

@jh5881

3 жыл бұрын

Barris is known for taking credit for other's work...like the Munster Koach.. designed by Tom Daniel and paid $400 for doing it. Same with Dragula although I don't know how much he got paid for Dragula design.

@bigblockjalopy

Жыл бұрын

Barris should have been tared and feathered for destroying it

@michaelmahoney1205

Жыл бұрын

He said on some show he hustled the car together fast on a little budget for the show.

@Lisa1111

Жыл бұрын

Stealing ideas goes way back!

@stevewenners

Жыл бұрын

He did what he was contracted to do. Other people gave him "celebrity" honors. Barris was just a normal car guy. Do not give him crap.

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!

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

@trevormillar1576

Жыл бұрын

I always thought the Batmobile was a 1963 Lincoln Continental with a bubble cockpit.

@trevormillar1576

Жыл бұрын

Did you know. Gerry Anderson copied a Ford concept car when he created the fantasy vehicle. "Supercar" a vehicle from a 1960s children tv show that could fly and travel underwater, like, "The Terror" from Jules Verne's novel "Master of the World".

@Toppervision1

Жыл бұрын

@@trevormillar1576 No, I never have heard of that. Cool!

@glassmanorangjitra

Жыл бұрын

Was about to say that myself. ;P

@glassmanorangjitra

Жыл бұрын

We had a BatMobile toy car by Corgi Toys. Look it up.

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

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

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!

@HGSolberg

Жыл бұрын

Yes. George Barris did the custom work on the Batmobile version. Because of the very limited time frame the TV production company gave him, he didn't have time to change a whole lot. Which in retrospect might have been a good thing, considering some of the other crazy build he did. LOL The original Batmobile turned out a real icon.

@daltonx6177

Жыл бұрын

Keep in mind that George Barris had barely three weeks to come up with the Batmobile... So glad he already had the Lincoln Futura in his collection ! Anyway, growing up in the '60s, this Batmobile will remain the best one for me, a true classic. It's all the other ones that were a joke, looking like trucks, not cars, and simply expandable vehicles that were treated like shit from the other Batmans... By the way, Barris was a smart guy: he bought the Futura from Ford for ONE dollar, and sold it by auction in 2013 for a whopping 4.5 million dollars ! Kudos ! 👍

@peterkirgan2921

Жыл бұрын

Holy bat changes miles ??? That kind of thing ! Lol

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.

@Toppervision1

7 жыл бұрын

Yea 7 clear coats on there. All 10 coats (3 red, 7 clear) put on 20 minutes apart all in the same day. An absolute miracle that no dust landed in it during that process.

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.

@Gearhead-en8dz

5 жыл бұрын

59 Caddy ragtop!

@savage22bolt32

Жыл бұрын

The sound my 1971 Benz sedan made upon closing any of the four doors was magnificent.

@ssmbanglacars

Жыл бұрын

True

@Kevin.W.

Жыл бұрын

False

@jimkujawski3772

Жыл бұрын

Yup, t doors on my '73 gran torino sport close just fine, (i never slam em) and yea, love that sound😀

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

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!

@RobbGF

Жыл бұрын

What's this? kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYGaw62ym5PUZZc.html

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

@Toppervision1

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

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

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

@Toppervision1

Жыл бұрын

Oh, yes. Originally, I wanted to display all 3 together. In the initial green as the concept car, then red, and a Batmobile all side by side. It would be an impressive display. I still can really. These aren't hard to find. This model still looks exactly this good. It is aging well.

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.

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

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...

@Toppervision1

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I had forgotten about this video. Getting alot of views lately for some reason.

@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602

2 жыл бұрын

@@Toppervision1 "alot"is not a word.

@Toppervision1

2 жыл бұрын

@@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 Who cares.

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.

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!

@Toppervision1

Жыл бұрын

Ha!, yes. Very well said. Don't even look at the electric Mustang...

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

@Toppervision1

Жыл бұрын

Oh that's ok. All this stuff is hard to keep track of. I'm sure the original Futura would have sold for only a few thousand, but now the original Batmobile is likely selling for millions.

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 !

@kalel21675

5 жыл бұрын

Sum Dude payed $1 for it too. That's what I call one hell of a turn around

@louisborselio8608

4 жыл бұрын

There are way more changes than you think. Look for the video Batmobile and Lincoln Futura Tutorial.

@donwinslow522

3 жыл бұрын

@@kalel21675 George Barris paid $1 for it, before customizing it as the Batmobile. It sure is a work of art. 😃

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

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

@Toppervision1

Жыл бұрын

Wow, you never saw this one? Yea it's 7 clear coats!

@thecaptain2521

Жыл бұрын

WOW no and I didn't look at the year it just popped up on my home page and I clicked on it thinking it was a new video. I'm glad I did!! It's amazing!!

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

A stunning car and a glorious model.

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

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

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

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

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

@RobbGF

Жыл бұрын

What's this? kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYGaw62ym5PUZZc.html

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

@Toppervision1

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

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

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

A TIMELESS CLASSIC!!!

Chills all around? Thanks, great job and vid!

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

WOW! THE ORIGINAL BATMOBILE. THE LEGENDS LIVES!

@paulkilpatrick1107

Жыл бұрын

NEVER DIED

This was the episode when Jonathan Kent owned the Batmobile.

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

Superb paint - BRAVO!

@Toppervision1

9 жыл бұрын

Bobby Butler Thank you.

@mothertree

7 жыл бұрын

yeah looks great! what pride taken

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 👍

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 :-)

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

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

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

@Toppervision1

9 жыл бұрын

altfactor hehe, I think he'll be surprised that this one is a bit of a compact car.

@colinjohnston8519

4 жыл бұрын

Billionaire...

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

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.

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!

@Toppervision1

Жыл бұрын

The kit is actually very very basic with lousy fit. Don't pay too much for it!

@hensleyshobbies-doug7761

Жыл бұрын

@@Toppervision1 - yeah I sorta figured it was, or is, that's probably another reason why I ain't got one yet but still I might be able to do something with it, I'll use the body and find me another chassis, well anyway, thanks Mike, I preciate it bud! 🤙🤘✌️

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.

@evdallas123

7 жыл бұрын

Born Again Torinos they have now

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

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

@dicarlo57

5 жыл бұрын

bullshit

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

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

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!

Great paint job, cool. Nice video too ! 🙂

@Toppervision1

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Beautiful car """!

very well done !, the finish is tops !

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 .

@danconlan64

5 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Aguero , Barris never gave credit to his mentor Harry Westerguard whom Sam & himself learned their trade. google Harry Westerguard Roseville Ca.

@danielaguero3766

5 жыл бұрын

dan conlan OMG Thank You for reminding me about the Westergard Customs those were beautiful pieces of rolling art .I was a kid but I do remember those old pictures of his cars .

@danconlan64

5 жыл бұрын

@@danielaguero3766Westerguards cars don't change hands very often. when they do its usualy done in private for big big $$$ so as to save on $ales tax. last time I saw one was late 70s at the now defunct cars of the stars museum . don't know who has it now . not many left !

@danielaguero3766

5 жыл бұрын

Some of the people reading these comments probably have never heard of The Westergard customs and that's a shame that's when these cars took on a complete styling change and were done beautifully not thrown together, I remember there also was a saying that any man can restore a vehicle a takes a real man to cut one up and turn it into art.

@danielaguero3766

5 жыл бұрын

John Dwyer Hi John don't get me wrong I Love the car but who in the shop actually came up with some of the ideas ,of coarse it was Barris's shop so he gets the credit but he wasn't the builder his guys in the shop were Barris was all about business his brother Sam was the one that built some beautiful cars but of course George got credit for those too.

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

@johnbockelie3899

3 жыл бұрын

The reason Superman and Batman don't get along together, ........the red car originally belonged to Jonathan Kent.

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.

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

@Toppervision1

2 жыл бұрын

Of course it is the Batmobile.

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

great clip thanks amazing model :)

How did you built it? awesome job love it!

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

Stunning

@Toppervision1

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

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.

Excellent model. Wish there was one of the Chrysler Norsemen

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

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

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

Great model 👍

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

great fun WORTH ALL YOUR EFFORTS

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

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."

I LOVE IT!!!

Muchas gracias por TU ayuda mi angueles

Fantastic Post !

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

*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*.

@dooplon5083

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the canopy is pretty cool!

@milesprower2944

8 жыл бұрын

+CoolasIce2 what about batman?

55 Lincoln Futura, a Ford product.

@redjupiter2

4 жыл бұрын

Donny D Thunderbird’s first production year was 1955. This Lincoln was a concept car and by design it was to show the public the design direction Lincoln and other ford product would possibly take in later cars. This is why you see thunderbird in this concept car as well as 56 and 57 Lincoln Premiers.

@scottmoot2969

Жыл бұрын

I think it was a European body, Ghia?

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

excelente, parabéns.

SO COOL!

This became one of the classic cars of old time it was created into the famous Batmobile!!!! Lol holy whackamolie !!!

Holy mackerel Batman!

A nice paint job on the model car

I'd love to have one of those!!! But turned into an all electric vehicle!!! Zero to sixty in about three seconds!!

@Toppervision1

Жыл бұрын

Ha! That's a great idea!

@robertdragoff6909

Жыл бұрын

But, what about that huge exhaust in the back?

wow now that is one nice mirror finish is that polished to ? nice car and diff to got to love future cars

I love cars! I have a few. My favorite is my 56' Chev Belair my mom had one!

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

beautiful model.

@Toppervision1

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Robin ; " I think if we are going to be the Caped Crusaders that we should have a Kool Kat hip swinging super car that the whole world will recognize when we pull into town "..... Batman ; "yes my trustworthy sidekick ,but where would we find such a car "?

Does it come in black??

George is also responsible for the Munster Koach and Dragula

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.

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