{"id":27523,"date":"2011-05-22T16:34:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T23:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=27523"},"modified":"2011-05-22T02:17:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T09:17:24","slug":"batmans-futura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/27523","title":{"rendered":"Batman&#8217;s Futura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BatmanFutura1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car: The model for the 1966 Batmobile. The car originally appeared in the motion picture <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1WUZ7zMidQ8\" target=\"_blank\">It Started With A Kiss<\/a><\/em> (1959). <\/p>\n<p>George Barris did the conversion, video below. And (just cause I found the link) <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.howstuffworks.com\/arts\/comic-books\/batmobile-quiz.htm#mkcpgn=kaw1\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s a quiz<\/a> on the most recent Bat vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BatmanFutura3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><embed src='http:\/\/www.bat-mania.co.uk\/guides\/player-viral.swf' height='315' width='400' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' flashvars='file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bat-mania.co.uk%2Fmain%2Fvehicles%2Fflash%2Fbarris_batmobile.flv&#038;plugins=viral-1d'\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BatmanFutura2.jpg\" width=\"400\"><br \/>\n<em>Driving thru <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bronson_Canyon\" target=\"_blank\">Bronson Canyon<\/a> (1966)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BatmanFutura4.jpg\"  width=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BatmanFutura5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BatmanFutura6.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford in It Started With A Kiss (1959)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bat-mania.co.uk\/main\/vehicles\/batmobile.php\" target=\"_blank\">Batmania UK<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/theinvisibleagent.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/23\/the-lincoln-futura-concept-car-1955\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Invisible Agent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Batman's Futura\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/27523\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car: The model for the 1966 Batmobile. The car originally appeared in the motion picture It Started With A Kiss (1959). George Barris did the conversion, video below. And (just cause I found the link) here&#8217;s a quiz on the most recent Bat vehicle. Driving thru Bronson Canyon (1966) Debbie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,54],"tags":[26,121],"class_list":["post-27523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-design-history","tag-cinema","tag-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27523"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27647,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27523\/revisions\/27647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}