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The Lincoln Futura is worth watching!



Beautiful and so Jetsons with the glass top! Bring this design back...

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If it looks familiar, it's because it's.... The Batmobile!!!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batmobile#Batman_(1960s_film/television_series)

What became the iconic Batmobile used in the 1966–1968 live action television show and its film adaptation was a customized vehicle that originated as a one-off 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car, created by Ford Motor Company lead stylists Bill Schmidt, Doug Poole Sr., and John Najjar and their design team at the Lincoln Styling Department.

In 1954, the Futura prototype was built entirely by hand by the Ghia Body Works in Turin, Italy, at a reported cost of US$250,000—the equivalent of approximately US$2.5 million in 2021. It made its debut in pearlescent Frost-Blue white paint on January 8, 1955, at the Chicago Auto Show. In 1959, sporting a fresh red paint job, the Futura was featured in the film It Started with a Kiss, starring Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford.


The car was purchased for $1.00 from Ford for use in movies and TV (for the publicity). It recently sold for 4.2 million bucks.

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