This car sat out day and night in No Hollywood at the corner of Lankershim
and Riverside. Guess George wanted someone to steal it.
In a message dated 1/18/2013 6:26:36 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
rande@thecia.net writes:
I think it was TTAC (The Truth About Cars) site that did a recent
discussion
of the Batmobile, part of it being someone was offering to make copies of
it
for sale, and part of the response back from posters was a slam on George
Barris
for his conversion of a FoMoCo prototype Lincoln Futura into Batman&Robin's
ride.
I should ask John how many versions Ford built of the Futura, as the most
popular
photo is of the white car from around 1955-6, but in the Glenn Ford /
Debbie
Reynolds 1959 film 'It Started with a Kiss', one of the stars of that film
was
a red version of the Futura. Was there at least two cars, or just another
paint
job for the only one?
At the time, and a little later, American manufacturers were prone to
destroying
show cars when they were done with them, because even driveable cars
weren't
deemed safe enough to sell to the public, so I was fine with Ford turning a
Futura over to Barris. Nowadays, folks like Chicago's Joe Bortz go out of
their
way to find and restore old prototypes, while reassuring car makers that
they
won't drive their prototypes to the supermarket.
_______________________________________________
tigers@autox.team.net
Archive: http://www.team.net/archive
Forums: http://www.team.net/forums
Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/aaaglasss@aol.com
_______________________________________________
tigers@autox.team.net
Archive: http://www.team.net/archive
Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/mharc@autox.team.net
|