The original TV Batmobile hits the auction block

[snopes]

With atomic batteries to power and turbines to speed, the original Batmobile is ready to rev up the auction block.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1210525

[Mad Jay]

oh man! I'm so kicking myself for not being a billionaire right now!

[Toad Buddy]

I sat in that!
A friend of my father's had something to do with custom cars (NSRA) in Detroit and brought the car to Hamilton for a show. I was fairly young, under 10, and thought it was the coolest thing. My father even has a couple of pictures somewhere of both my brother & I sitting in the driver's seat.
Good times.
~Toad Buddy

[DrRocket]

WOW! Never thought George would let that thing go.

I've seen it up close, and it's definitely a 20 footer.

[Lainie]

Originally Posted by Toad Buddy

I sat in that!
A friend of my father's had something to do with custom cars (NSRA) in Detroit and brought the car to Hamilton for a show. I was fairly young, under 10, and thought it was the coolest thing.

You're not suggesting you don't think that now?!

[E. Q. Taft]

It doesn't really have atomic batteries?!?!??!?

Geez, you'd the show was fiction or something.

[Jay Temple]

I shared that article, along with a message, "Don't tell my wife what she's getting!"

I said to her, "How cool would it be to tell you your present's outside, and blindfold you, and when you take it off, there's the Batmobile, with flames still coming out of the back! Well, except for everything behind it being reduced to ashes."

[DrRocket]

And sell it did tonight!

For a mere $4,200,000!