Monday, July 31, 2017
From the Batmobile to the Bath-mobile, He Built them All
From the Batmobile to the Bath-mobile, He Built them All: Behold, the Bath buggy, built in 1970 for the World’s Fair in Osaka Japan, complete with a Ford Mustang engine, made by the same guy who pretty much created every cool ride that appeared on television screens during the 1960s and 70s. The Batmobile, the Flinstones car, David Hasslehoff’s car the Green Hornet car, The Munster’s car, the Monkee’s mobile– they were all the work of one imaginative man, Mr. George Barris, the original king of custom cars.
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Ahhh, memories. I don't think I was ever that impressed with the Batmobile--the effects used to make it seem to go very fast were too cheesy by half, almost as bad as the hokey "climbing the building" fakery. But I had a model of the Munsters' coach that I would give a great deal to have today. Very detailed and really cool, and (unusual, I think, for car models) with real rubber tires. I'm not sure what happened to it...
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