1989 Batmobile car kit?

[eledoremassis02]

Does any one know were to get one? I have been looking alover!

[IncredibleHulk]

car kit? you mean the model? i saw one at......i think Newbury Comics i think it was?

[eledoremassis02]

no no... you can turn your car into the batmobile http://www.weaintcool.com/pictures/articles/batmobile/realbatmobile.jpg like this exept for the 1989 version

[IncredibleHulk]

oh man...that's so awesome!

edit lemme know if you have any luck finding it.

[eledoremassis02]

ok

[IncredibleHulk]

driving into work (a grocery store) in a batmobile would be great.

[eledoremassis02]

lol that would rock!

[Batman_DKR]

anything found yet??? i havent got a car yet, and i owuld love for my first one to be a batmobile :D:D

[eledoremassis02]

lol no luck... but if anyone wants to help the search

[Batman_DKR]

no im ok :) but thanks for the offer ;)

[BatDemon]

those cars aren't "technicly" available. the patent/copyright is still active. anyone caught with one, would surely have it confiscated by WB. but, on the bright side, word is, the patent/copyright is soon to expire and a few companies are waiting in the wings when this happens.

[eledoremassis02]

I used to see thin in automotive stores. But they were explensive. They are just very rare now i guess.. there is a guy who fiber glass's waterride things like mermaid pumps and a giant tree... maybe he could make one?

[Batman_DKR]

i suppose it is sometthing to do with batman and robin, and how nobody really was interested in stuff like this, the mass public i mean :(

[DAVIDYR1]

Originally posted by BatDemon
those cars aren't "technicly" available. the patent/copyright is still active. anyone caught with one, would surely have it confiscated by WB. but, on the bright side, word is, the patent/copyright is soon to expire and a few companies are waiting in the wings when this happens.

Batdemon Speaks Wisely!
David

[BatDemon]

most of these "89 kits" aretaken from molds of cars used in the stunt shows. wb still owns the rights to those cars. i know of people who have these. i also know people who have made their own versions. they have no worries. btw, ferrari sued many kit car companies years ago.

[Batman_DKR]

god that sucks, but honeslty to anybody wanting one, how much you think of of those puppies will go for now :eek:

[WayneEnterprise]

The patent for the 1989 Keaton Batmobile expires this November. The COPYRIGHT for the name BATMOBILE will stay in effect forever. What this means to you: You will be able to build a "Batmobile", but you cannot legally call it a "Batmobile". It must be called a "Gotham Cruiser" or some other suitable name. You can let other people call it a Batmobile, but you yourself cannot. Now, WB will still likely attempt to curb those efforts by fans to build replica cars, but they tried the same thing for the Barris car so many years ago.

Alot of people are currently making these cars. In fact, I know a guy who actually has a copy of the molds that are exact replicas of the Keaton car. However, in all practicality, you would not want to build an exact replica. Now hear me out...

The original car was so long, there was no way you could make it driveable. Not reasonably so, anyways. Even if you added all the modern amenities, i.e. side view mirrors, a rear window, headlights that are above the legal limit, etc... If you were to go over any bump or dip in the road you would beach the car or shatter the fiberglass nose piece. Especially since the nose piece sticks out so far from the front wheels. This is no traditional lowrider.

There are a few guys out there right now who are sculpting or building bucks and molds for these cars, in anticipation of the November expiration of the copyright. They are modifying the car so as to make it driveable. You can realistically build this car to be 20' or so and still maintain the image and driveability factor. Of course, it would still ride 2" above the ground, so at least one person I know is adding airbags to their car to raise it up when a bump is approaching. A novel idea.

An average enthusiast could realistically sculpt this body using the Polyurethane / Fiberglass composite sandwich method, which you can read more about from my website. www.thebatcave.8k.com (Click the 1989 Batmobile link) New builders can build very professional car bodies on their first attempt, and the cost is not prohibitive at all. The average cost for fiberglass and all related materials for an average size car is only around $900-$1200. If you totally mess up, you can start over and not be in the hole too much. And the best part is, you never need to make a mold or a buck if you use this method.

There are alot of rumors going around about WB taking people's replica cars, taking people to court, etc. While there is indeed some truth to this, it is not as widespread as believed. I have several contacts who both replicate and sell these cars, and it is rather difficult for WB to do much about it unless they find the molds or the people slip up and call it a Batmobile publicly. Remember, copyrights don't expire. The term "Batmobile" is the intellectual property of WB and DC, so we can never steal it. But as was the case with the mysterious #5 Barris replica, (a fan made car that Barris tried unsuccesfully to buy from the builder when he found out about it. He ended up making the guy a rep for him and authenticated the car as a Barris original) WB will have no sway after November.

Check out my website at www.thebatcave.8k.com and go to the 1989 BATMOBILE page. There is alot of info there, and some pics of fan built projects. As you can imagine for legal reasons, I do not put TOO MUCH information out there for the public. But if you are seriously interested, and you have the cash, I can get you a body if you want it. Hell, I can get you a darn turnkey if you really want! Just let me know. ;)

[BatDemon]

i was wondering when people would start coming out of the wings... checked out your site, nice. i seem to remember molds for 89 car being stolen several years ago. i may be wrong, and it was actually the 66 car. have you seen pics of the japaneese car? they have nice buildup pics.

[Batman_DKR]

that guy his cool, you should chek out his site :)

[WayneEnterprise]

You're not just saying that cuz your on it, are you DKR? ;) Thanks for the compliment.

Demon, I know molds were jacked awhile back, but nobody can do anything with them. One guy went so far as to trash his mold instead of risking selling it to some undercover WB lawyer. Things have settled down with this car, and the molds are out there all over the place now. People are building their own molds from the original bodies, or from the Six Flags cars, or from their buddy's cars, or other places. They are not too hard to find anymore. A few years ago, there were only like 3 molds in the US, and NOBODY would pull a body from one. It was impossible to get!

Tell me where I can check out this Japanese car. I might have seen it before, but I would need to look at it.

[Batman_DKR]

im not on there yet, :D

and youre site is cool, when i get the money im so coming ot you for my batmobile :D

[BatDemon]

WayneEnt.,
i forget the link to the japaneese site, but pics can be seen at Gotham Garage (http://gothamgarage.uni.cc/)
click on the "custom" section. it's the 2nd page in.

[WayneEnterprise]

Thanks Demon! I'll check it out soon!

[BatDemon]

deleted.

[WayneEnterprise]

What happened to the deleted post? Was someone being mean or profane? I'm a big boy, I can take it.

[Batman_DKR]

lol who knows :(

[BatDemon]

deleted message was my own doing. i thought i found a site for Wayne Ent. when i checked the like i realized the info wasn't on that site.

[WayneEnterprise]

Oh, cool. If you get any info or leads, send 'em my way! Always looking for new stuff for the site. Also, it does not have to be Batmobiles, necessarily... Anything SUPER cool and unique that can be shared with all the Batfans, send my way. :)

[Batman_DKR]

lol sounds cool :)

[BatDemon]

okay, someone on another board re-posted the link to the site i was thinking of. here it is bat build up (http://www.k-tune.com/k-chin/index.html)

[WayneEnterprise]

Looks like somebody has been busy! While it does not look like this will be an accurate replica, I have a feeling alot of the '89's that are made will be highly modified for practicality reasons. I like it. If you guys wanna check out another '89 bat project in the works, go to: http://www.unlimiteddimension.net/projectbat/projectbat.html and click on The Batmobile. The guy is building it for a great cause, and it looks awesome so far!

[Batman_DKR]

wwow that looks good so far :)

[The Riddler]

sure does. :up:

[WayneEnterprise]

I am trying to talk this guy into pulling bodies for me once his mold is done. Unlike the method I am using, which is called a Urethane / Fiberglass sandwich method (my method leaves no mold behind, so there is nothing to pull another car from) his will have a mold. He is unsure, since he has alot of other projects inthe works, like a Mach 5 replica and the Turtle Van.

However, if any of your rich forum dwellers out there are interested, there IS someone who will be selling accurate kits for around $12k in November. Just let me know.

[The Riddler]

12k!?

i can't blow that much money even though i have it.

[WayneEnterprise]

Lol. Yeah, most people won't. But when you think about it, the kits for the '66 sell for anywhere from $10k to $15k. (although I just found one guy who will sell them for $6,500!) You have to have ALOT of money to try a project like this. That's why you don't see too many Gotham Cruisers prowling about the night.

[The Riddler]

very true. :up:

[Timstuff]

That project looks really cool, and I like that they're doing it so they can put on shows for a good cause. However, it looks like so far they only have a miniature, "prototype" mold they're making, so that project is probably a while's awat from completion. They also want to do gadgets and a costume, as well as a Nightwing suit and motorcycle, so they're work is definately cut out for them. This little baby sure caught my attention though...

http://www.thebatcave.8k.com/images/mold3.jpg

This thing looks like it's almost finished! All it needs is a good paint job, some authentic looking hub caps and some other stuff, and it looks like they'd have a grade A replica there. That just makes me all giddy inside. :)

I wish I were like Jay Leno who can afford to collect cars. I'd definately want a Batmobile replica in my collection. I can just imagine myself cruising around at night in that thing... It'd feel so cool! Then I'd go to the drive through window at Burger King and freak everyone out. :D

[WayneEnterprise]

I know where that one came from. The guy took it from an actual mold, and there is alot of controversy over it. Actually, 2 guys have claimed responsibility for that puppy. However, there is still no doubt it was from an "official" source. Awwwwwwww... I am still not allowed to say much about alot of the replicas out there. If I spill the beans, people won't trust me with their secrets anymore. Well, I guess you guys will learn alot more in November!!! :)

[The Riddler]

wow that is hot!

[Batman_DKR]

woah! i want one.........:(

and NOVEMBER :eek:????? WTF is going on in november :confused:

[The Riddler]

huh!?

[WayneEnterprise]

Oh yeah, in November the patent expires for the '89. The kits will be all over the damn place. Check out my site guys! Sheesh. Click on 1989 BATMOBILE.. I will put more stuff up there tonight, too.

[The Riddler]

ok cool.

[Timstuff]

Wow... Please MTV, pimp my ride with one of those things! :p

[Batman_DKR]

wow that would be so cool

[The Riddler]

better than cool!!

[RatWings]

that would be kewl. So if the patent ends in november you can just buy a kit an dput one together?

[eledoremassis02]

This is just a shell but it's pretty cool! I wonder if you could put this on your car. It does not look like the real one and is cheaply made as from what I saw. I think the stunt show i saw Batman vs. catwoman catfight used a real one.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v390/eledoremassis02/Six%20Flags/TheBatmobile.jpg

By looking between the wheel and the shell you can see the other end.
:batman:

[The Riddler]

i'd liek a chaneg of tires, and it'd be sweet!

[eledoremassis02]

As soon as I get back to SF I will take more pics of the Display batmobile and the stunt show one.

[The Riddler]

cool.

[WayneEnterprise]

Well, LEGALLY you will be able to own one of these cars in November. However, WB will probably still raise a fuss and threaten people and blow hot air and probably will take down the first couple people who try to sell kits, just to make an example. But hey, Barris made a big fuss when the first fan-built '66 had its debute, and all he could do was issue a cease and desist order to stop showing the car. As long as you are not trying to make money off it, you should be fine. There are several guys waiting in the wings to sell these kits as soon as the patent runs out in November. Oh, and the Magic Mountain cars were all built by Jay Ohrberg (sp?). He got busted awhile back for selling these things to people OTHER than Six Flags... His molds went on a crazy ride and now there are lots of molds in existence. Some copies of Jay's molds, others hand sculpted.

[Timstuff]

Dang, I have made it a mandate to go to Six Flags this year and see the Batman stunt-show. Last year we were supposed to see it, but the line for Superman: Ride of Steel was so long that we missed it! That really got me ticked off, and ontop if it I really had to pee while we were on the ride so I was a little dissapointed. But the ride was still loads of fun at least, and it was late and getting real dark out, so that made it even more fun. :)

Blah... If I won 10,000 bucks in a contest, I'd probably spend it on getting my own Batmobile, even though that's hardly the most intellegent purchase I could make with the money. :p

[Timstuff]

Also there's this really cool pizza place I've been to, and the guy is obsessed with Hot-Wheels and cool cars. He's got like a zillion hot-wheels cars on display at the tables and on the walls, and he has no less than 6 cars, including a vintage VW Van and an entire school bus, which have tables in them that you can actually order from. I'm sure he'd kill to get his hands on a Batmobile shell to put on display. He's offering a pizza-for-lifetime reward for anyone who can bring him this one hotwheels car that's a VW Van with Surfboards (which his VW Van is a full-scale replica of), so if he'd go through that much effort for a tiny piece of die-cast, I'd imagine he'd be very interested in getting his own Batmobile. :)

[eledoremassis02]

Wow! I wish i could help I'm hungry lol. But um.. I have been looking on the web and here is a fan made batmobile

http://mark-shields.org/photos-1989-keaton-batmobile-replica.shtml

[Timstuff]

Heh. I saw that one. It's a pretty cool attempt (I think it's a modded Corvette). However having the actual Batmobile replica complete with the sliding windshield entry would be way cooler, I think. :p

I think that the rewar is a large pizza every week for the next 25 years. He calls it pizza for life though because I guess he assumes you won't live longer than 25 years if you eat a large pizza by yourself every week. :D

[Dark Vigilante]

i want one. that would be sweet rolling up to walmart in the batmobile :) :batman:

[Timstuff]

Great uses for having your own Batmobile replica:

Going through the McDonalds' drive through window;

Parking it in the Wal-Mart parking lot, and letting people ogle it while you shop;

Taking it for a joy ride in the middle of the night;

Picking up your date in it;

Running miscelaniouse errands in style;

Making yourself be "The cool and fun uncle" by taking your nephews for joy rides in it;

Putting on a Batman costume and driving it around on Halloween

Yes, having a Batmobile of your own would certainly offer plenty of perks. :)

[The Riddler]

it'd be a dream come true.

:D

[WayneEnterprise]

Hey Tim, who is this pizza guy? Maybe you could point him in my direction IF he is interested. Ask him if he would want one.... If he is seriously interested, I can make it happen.

Oh, and I can't stand Mark Sheilds' attempt at a replica (he didn't actually do that himself, he bought it from someone else). It looks ugly, and to make matters worse, he is a d1ck about it. He is not a helpful person at all.

[Timstuff]

Cool. Next time I'm gonna go there, if you could give me a website adress or e-mail adress that I could give him, some interesting stuff could happen. :)

The restaraunt has a website too... I can't remember the name though. If I can get the web adress, I'll definately post it here when I do.

[WayneEnterprise]

www.thebatcave.8k.com

Check it out. Click on 1989 BATMOBILE. Most of the information regarding this car is secret until November when the patent expires.

[Batman_DKR]

it is damn cool :D

[The Dark Knight]

agreed.

[SHADOWBAT69]

when i win the lottery........

[Batman_DKR]

when i inherit :)

[The Riddler]

:eek:

you rich bastard!

lol.

i have 30 k right now though!

bwahahah!

[Batman_DKR]

i have botu $100000 in a bank account in wales, i just cant touch it yet, and i get another $100000 exery year :p

[WayneEnterprise]

What is this madness you speak of DKR? You know you want a Batmobile.... :)

[Batman_DKR]

i do, but i cant acess my moneys :(

[The Riddler]

wtf!?

you are rich!

filthy rich!

[WayneEnterprise]

Lol. Where do you get it from??

[Batman_DKR]

my bank account

[Mr A]

:batman:

3 steps to driving an 89 Anton car.

1: Get a car you can afford + drive.
2: Strip the body panels & adapt the car for looks/practical driving/parking, etc.
3: Hand sculpt the body over your frame using steel/aluminium/fibreglass/foam/cardbord & string (whatever it takes..).

sorry I forgot....

4: Make sure it is road legal (where ever you live).:up:

Long live the dream.:)

(Sounds easy doesn't it?)

[darkknightlife]

yea u can get 1 at monsters in motion not sure of their web site so google it i wanted1toosince all those late models came out last year soon as i post this ibetter hurry up and get it and they have tons of other cool models :batman: :joker: :batman:

[lincolnmrk66]

:batman:

3 steps to driving an 89 Anton car.

1: Get a car you can afford + drive.
2: Strip the body panels & adapt the car for looks/practical driving/parking, etc.
3: Hand sculpt the body over your frame using steel/aluminium/fibreglass/foam/cardbord & string (whatever it takes..).

sorry I forgot....

4: Make sure it is road legal (where ever you live).:up:

Long live the dream.:)

(Sounds easy doesn't it?)

I've got a '79 Lincoln Continental that I am soooo tempted to cut up for a Batmobile replica....except, being a fan of the Animated Series, I think I'd want to bring that one to life.....do any of you guys know of anyone who has done this?

[Darkseid1]

like you could actually drive it on the street.:/

[lincolnmrk66]

like you could actually drive it on the street.:/

Why wouldn't you be able to?....It would be a much easier project than the '89 Bat....may be a bit long, but people drive limos don't they?...Of course it would have to be outfitted with mirrors, windshield wipers, etc...

Building the car is not a problem...I have pretty good connections in the custom car hobby, I just wanted to know if anyone ever built an Animated-inspired Batmobile. If you are worried about whether you could actually drive a Batmobile, I'd be more concrned about the '89 or '95....have you ever seen them in person...they are massive!:)

[darkknightlife]

barris drives his on the street.

[Sir Charles]

So who is building them,?

[Sir Charles]

So who is currently build this 89 Batmobile?

[Sir Charles]

You know they are building a Kit Car version off of an Impala so anyone can build one.


kit will be available this year at $ 9,500.00 most people use a impala chassis. Any chassis needs to be made longer.
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http://www.mycrazycars.com/images/batmobile_sideview.jpg

Some pictures of one being built.

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/bigwallyz/89%20Batmobile/89rearfit-1.jpg

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/bigwallyz/89%20Batmobile/89rearfit2-1.jpg

[Cobblepot]

I gotta get me one of those.

[TheShadow]

Holy **** I'am ordering this thing asap that looks amazingly good

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