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Not sure if this is a "dream" car or a nightmare..... but the top one is super fun to me!!

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In '63 a guy named Forrest Robinson took a '56 Olds 88 and put a custom fabricated body on its chassis and called it a Batmobile.
DC Comics went along and actually used the car in some very early promoational appearances for the TV show;
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Then it was tossed aside like a used car in a field:
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Somewhat fortuitously, somebody with an obviously unhealthy obsession with obscure cultural artifacts found it and deemed it worthy of retrieval from a return to dust.
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Batman even had a Pantera at one point, but it was a pre-locking lug nuts model:
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Raymond Loewy's '57 BMW 507 Coupe "one-off":
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(Tried to audition for Cars but the producers wanted somebody with better teeth.)

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Good ideas (in somebody's mind, at least) always get re-used, Loewy being as susceptible as anybody else:
From the Valiant
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(Desperately recovered from this fate worthy of dinosaurs):
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To the Avanti
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GGJaguar said:
1958 Berkeley SE328. I don't understand why it used a 2-stroke, air-cooled, 328cc parallel twin motorcycle engine, but I guess that's part of the charm.

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Berkely was an English trailer ("caravan") maker so had to source engines outside. Their real expertise was with fiberglass. So they built an FWD drophead in fiberglass, it didn't need a lot of HP.

That class of vehicle was quite well suited to narrow English road requiring lower absolute speeds, and frugal fuel use, and low materials cost.

But Oddjob would be out of a job.
 
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I drove a bunch of early Valiants, including a '64 with a 4sp on the floor, aluminum 225/6, forged steel crank, way ahead of these fart can youngsters of today, I had a muffler shop split the exhaust into dual straight pipes. White with a red interior, interior bristling with gauges, black racing stripe down the hood (very important, do you know why?) I don't remember getting a date within 100' of that car, in the muscle car era, it was a joke.
 
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