Re: [Chrysler300] 300 F Batmobile

["Roger Schaaf" <obiwan10@xxxx>]

I was born and raised in Lincoln Nebraska. In 1967 I share a house with a
couple of other single guys one of whom was into the auto show circuit in
quite a big way.

There was a rather large show of rods, customs and special interest autos
scheduled to take place at Lincoln's city convention center and the
Batmobile was to be featured as a one of the special attractions.

The car arrived several days before the commencement of the show and the
exhibitors in charge of showing it needed a place to store it until it could
be set up at the convention center. My friend who was into the auto shows
was asked and he agreed that it could be stored at our home in our garage.

It did spend several days there so we got to look it over quite carefully.
Even the most casual lookover indicated that this was a Lincoln Automobile
of some vintage. It looked thirty feet long as it was a
convertible(probably closer to 20 feet however) and as I remember was done
in a black primer. The interior had all the gauges and other geehaws done
in some type of orange or green florescent paint and the overall appearance
up close and personal was really quite a pile of shabby and tacky
workmanship.

It was built for television and on those sets available in those days(I
suspect high def tv may have proved its undoing) it did what it was designed
to do. It fooled all of into believing that this was really a cool car and
helped put or keep Barris on the map but it certainly could not be something
of which he could be too proud.

However we still felt pretty hot having the Batmobile at our home for a few
day. Also I believe we were somehow led to understand that this was only
one of several editions of the Batmobile floating around. Perhaps if this
were true another could have been of much higher quality then the one that I
got to know for a few days

Roger Schaaf
300 B Calif
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From: <quentsmith@xxxx>
To: <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 7:48 PM
Subject: [Chrysler300] 300 F Batmobile


> The old Batmobile on the Batman and Robin show with Adam West was put
> together out of an idea car by Ford Motor company and converted. It was a
Lincoln and
> I think I remember, without looking it up, the name was Ventura. The
person
> doing the conversion work was George Barris. It was a nice looking car
before
> it became the Batmobile. Quentin Smith
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