Entrepreneur Paul Garlick brought a touch of Gotham City to an East Yorkshire village this week when his £150,000 custom-built Batmobile made its first public appearance.
The 130mph car is one of just three working models and it stunned passers-by when it was road-tested in Holderness.
The vehicle took 18 months to build, is 6.5m (21ft) long and 2.5m (8ft) wide, and has a fibreglass body moulded from the original used in the 1989 Batman film.
It took 500 man hours to paint and needed 50 tins of body filler, said maker Z Cars. 'It's stunning,' said Mr Garlick, from Cheshire, who plans to cash in on the success of current film, The Dark Knight, with a string of VIP appearances.
The 1989 batmobile sucked. It was too long, too big, and made no sense visually, a huge jet engine intake at the front ok - so where did the exhaust go? The cabin was directly behind it. Even the campy 60's Batmobile made more sense than this stupid thing, that needed a grappling hook to take a sharp corner. (Whereas this articles 'car' - no - lorry with poor visibility, is uglier because it has an incongruous exhaust tacked on the side) The Movie wasn't that special either, Joker would have been more accurate title. Keaton was small and unconvincing in the role. Then what followed was worse, I still shiver as I remember the sequel, wobbling tombstones, and waddling penguins with missiles strapped to their backs; basically each sequel was a good deal worse than the film that went before. Thank God we never got Burton's version of a Superman movie.
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