DC Comics has officially licensed Fiberglass Freaks to re-create, down to the flame throwers (working, natch), the futuristic car that the Caped Crusader drove in the 1960s TV series.

For $150,000, you too could keep Gotham City safe. Or at least look really, really cool while sitting in traffic.

Each car frame is built around a 1970s Lincoln Town Car. And only eight of these hand-crafted beauties roll off the factory floor each year. Company founder Mark Racop has been perfecting the design pretty much his entire life, way before he got the official go-ahead. According to his website, the Batmobile-obsessive fell in love with the car from the show at the tender age of two.

The cars are road-ready and come equipped with a GM 350 crate engine, Radir wheels with custom bat spinners, and a paint job only a superhero wanna-be could love. And need we mention the bat-wing shaped tail fins? This car gives new meaning to joy ride.

And because these wheels are pimped up, the 1966 Batmobile also comes equipped with some very 2010 additions: a DVD player with LCD screen in the dash (to play re-runs of the series, obviously) and a high-end stereo to blast the "Batman" theme song.

DC Comics has officially licensed Fiberglass Freaks to re-create, down to the flame throwers (working, natch), the futuristic car that the Caped Crusader drove in the 1960s TV series...

I'm a little surprised that DC was able to do that without Fox's permission. I thought the main reason the TV wasn't on DVD was because of some weird copyright issue in which DC owned the characters (natch) but Fox owned the designs that were specific to the TV show. I also seem to recall reading that was supposedly why: (a) DC Direct tended to shy away from toys and props that looked too much like the ones from the TV show; and (b) Mike Allred couldn't use the "Adam West" Batman drawing for that issue of "Solo."

I'm also sure they have use the Adam West likeness in Batman comics before ...

i also like nintendo!! captainsammitch

but he did use the Adam West art for Solo. it was one of the covers.

Sammitch, change your avatar!

holyfuckwhatiswrongwithit?!?

True. But for some reason I thought they couldn't use the image on covers, sort of like how they have to use "Shazam" on the cover, but can use "Capt. Marvel" in the actual stories.

No. It was supposed to be, it was originally promoted as the cover, but DC put the kibosh on it.

he's old and senile, leave him be.

no, they didn't. it was for sale as one of the covers. I've seen it on several occasions.

FROM WIKIPEDIA:
A solicited cover by Mike Allred for issue #7 of Solo—a 2005 DC Comics series—featured Batman doing the Batusi. The cover, based on Adam West and a memorably campy episode of the TV series, was replaced by the time of Solo #7's release. Allred explains that the cover was pulled by "higher ups" for reasons largely unknown.[10] Speculation over the reasons first intimated that potential infringement of rights were the issue, but this was soon replaced with suggestions that its "campy" nature was the real factor in its removal. At the time of the issue's release, DVDs of Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, and Batman Begins were also being promoted, and DC's chief editor Dan Didio reportedly does not like camp.

For some reason Allred did another cover with Wonder Girl doing the Batusi. I thought it was because the The Bat-Man cover was recalled, but it must be something else because G-man is always wrong because he is an arse rapist.

This was also around the time Rob was removed as the DCMB moderator.