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Dust off your cape. Clear out the bat cave. The original Batmobile from the 1960s TV series starring Adam West is back.
Now you too can the proud owner of one for a mere $149,999. And yes, the flamethrower works, too.
The 1966 Batmobile, based on the Lincoln Town Car, takes six months to build and features an array of working gadgets, including a red flashing beacon, a radar screen called ‘Detect-a-scope’, a retractable, gold-colored ‘Batbeam’ and a dashboard DVD player, reports Yahoo News. The exclusive car is the creation of Fiberglass Freaks founder Mark Racop, who decided he wanted to build a Batmobile at two years old. “I fell in love the show, fell in love with the action, the color, the music – everything. But the best feature was the Batmobile, speeding out of the Batcave,” he said.
And who happens to buy this novel car? Racop says most are in their forties and fifties and fans of the original Batman show and some drive their cars every day. “Wealth seems to breed that eccentricity. This was their childhood dream car, just as it was for me,” he commented.
But you better get to a dealer fast–the license from D.C. Comics limits the company to make just eight per year.