<VV> Re: Holy Corvairs Batman./ some Corvair

[chevrobilia at juno.com]

Thanks, Louis! Barris had a contract with Ford and built cars for their
Custom Cavalcade road show, hence how he got ahold of the Futura for the
Batmobile and restyled it himself. GM on the other hand was never
involved with a TV car that I can think of.
Dave

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:30:50 -0400 "Louis C. Armer,Jr."
<carmerjr at mindspring.com> writes:
Another interesting Corvair side bar to the story, longtime CORSA member
and Corvair owner, Tony Kruzich, lived
in Detroit and watched the progress of the construction of the BatMobile
by Barris. During the same times, Tony
was customizing a 1953 Chevy coupe which was painted the purple paint
color of the 1955 Lincoln and used the
slanted Dodge headlights on his Chevy.

Chuck Armer
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At 08:34 AM 3/23/2007, you wrote:

Well, it happened, but not quite as described by the seller. I'm sure the
Dynamic Duo would have much preferred a 'Vair ride to the Barris-ized
Lincoln Futura concept car that they actually used in the TV series. But
the '65 convert in these photos had nothing to do with TV other than
borrowing the campy Bat-theme. And it definitely wasn't a GM concept car.

I'm acquainted with the GM Canada engineer who owned this car. He and a
test engineer got the idea of doing a Batmobile look-alike to use in a
fund raising parade, for the 1966 Oshawa Civic Auditorium Centennial
Project. The various appendages were mostly cardboard, stuck to the car.
They even had a tape recorder in the back seat wired to speakers, which
pumped out the whine of a jet that was ready to take off.  

The photos were used to publicize the parade and the charity, through GM
Canada public relations. But there was no official connection to the TV
super heroes or their producers.

If you hurry, you can still own that Corvair "Futura" one-off
that got so much attention last week. Bidding's up to $17,100 but the
auction closes in 16 hours: eBay 230105782074
Dave Newell
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Corvair Atlanta Member, Corvair Atlanta BOD
Corvanatics Member, SECC Member
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