New Project! Full Size 1989 Batmobile Project

[knightdriver2001]

Been cutting, adding and reshaping the front end to line up better to the back half. It was really off quite a bit.
Things are fitting much better. Even added bolt on temporary dollies under the front half to help move it around.
It's a bit heavy when you're by yourself. Flipping this thing over by yourself to work on it isn't easy. But we are getting there.
Trying to do what I can before it starts getting any colder. Before long this thing will head to storage for the winter.

 

[Jamesfett]

I hope you have crawled under the shell and sat up in the driver seat area and played Batman.

First thing I would have done

 

[Batbird2008]

Where did you get the body. Do you know where I can get one?

 

[knightdriver2001]

Well, with old man winter starting to hammer down on us here in new england, it was time wrap up the Bat for the winter. I'll pick back up on things in the spring. Mummified in layers of a 20' by 80' tarp.

 

[ZeroSum]

I think you may have gotten a little confused with the requirements...

 

[JediMichael]

I think you may have gotten a little confused with the requirements...

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I think that only protects against explosions...and theft.
Cold would eat right through those panels. Yep.

 

[dstaffa54]

are you for hire to find and install a fiberglass 89 batmobile "shell" on top of a 86 Chevy Covette and then customize it.

 

[dstaffa54]

Hello, Wondering if you are for hire to procure and install a fiberglass 1989 batmobile shell on a 1996 Chevy Corvette (obviously would have to be chopped up) to accept the shell; and finally, to customize it to appear as a replica of the 1989 batmobile

 

[publiusr]

A Corvette might make a better 1980s SuperFriends type Batmobile

 

[knightdriver2001]

Hello, Wondering if you are for hire to procure and install a fiberglass 1989 batmobile shell on a 1996 Chevy Corvette (obviously would have to be chopped up) to accept the shell; and finally, to customize it to appear as a replica of the 1989 batmobile

Sorry to say I am not that skilled in doing that type of work. I will be having someone do mine when I get to that point. Right now I am just collecting parts as well as making some of the parts for sale.

 

[knightdriver2001]

If your interested, I just put up a one of a kind Batmobile Dashboard panel set in the junkyard.

 

[drusselmeyer]

Any updates on the Batburrito?

 

[knightdriver2001]

Well, last year we managed to pull the body and drive train out of a 96 Chevy Caprice. Got it stripped and ready to be cut and stretched. Pull the body off with a 33 ton excavator. Quick and easy.

 

[knightdriver2001]

We then loaded the car body up and transported it to the new location to continue the build.

 

[knightdriver2001]

The frame was the measured multiple times, marked and cut into two. 4" steel square tubing was threaded through the old frame and stretched it by almost 2 feet, giving us our 141" wheel base needed for the batmobile.

 

[knightdriver2001]

The body was then placed over the frame to test the wheel base, making sure the wheels lined up with the body wheel wells. and yes................... We are building two. The one in the back is a bit further along. Both cars will be getting LS Engines too.