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This is the real original one, courtesy of George Barris. Everything before was just drawings.

IANAL, but even fro ma practical standpoint... I see it being fuzzy.

At one point, George Barris painted the cars with "bat fuzz". However, they were eventually repainted to gloss black.

As for this case, I've read that the judge has pointed out there are exceptions to the non-copyrightability of cars. Those exceptions cover the things that make a car a Batmobile as opposed to a black car with bubble windows.If he removes the infringing aspects I don't think he's gonna sell too many, seeing as at least one company makes officially licensed replicas.

"If I remember correctly the original was a one off by George Barris"

Four were built. Three fiberglass copies and one from the prototype Lincoln Futura.
http://www.1966batmobile.com/replica.htm

The Batmobile was pretty quiet.

Interesting that you should bring that up. George Barris and his crew spent three weeks modifying the Futura concept car for 20th Century Fox. No atomic turbine: it was powered by a 390 CuI reciprocating internal combustion engine. Not, apparently, the engine with which the vehicle originally shipped. Part of Barris' contract included the installation of a new drive train.

I read once that the high-speed chases they depicted in the TV series were actually run at over a hundred miles an hour for realism. If I remember right, they got special dispensation from the Governor their State in order to do that (I was only a kid then so I could be wrong.)

The Batmobile was pretty quiet.

Interesting that you should bring that up. George Barris and his crew spent three weeks modifying the Futura concept car for 20th Century Fox. No atomic turbine: it was powered by a 390 CuI reciprocating internal combustion engine. Not, apparently, the engine with which the vehicle originally shipped. Part of Barris' contract included the installation of a new drive train.

I read once that the high-speed chases they depicted in the TV series were actually run at over a hundred miles an hour for realism. If I remember right, they got special dispensation from the Governor their State in order to do that (I was only a kid then so I could be wrong.)

The Batmobile was pretty quiet.

Interesting that you should bring that up. George Barris and his crew spent three weeks modifying the Futura concept car for 20th Century Fox. No atomic turbine: it was powered by a 390 CuI reciprocating internal combustion engine. Not, apparently, the engine with which the vehicle originally shipped. Part of Barris' contract included the installation of a new drive train.

I read once that the high-speed chases they depicted in the TV series were actually run at over a hundred miles an hour for realism. If I remember right, they got special dispensation from the Governor their State in order to do that (I was only a kid then so I could be wrong.)