Oil for 1989 Batmobile Jet Turbine

[HangerHarley]

Starting bid was $500,000 some time ago. Id pay that if i could. I saw it at an Auto show, some time ago.

This is an actual car and claimed top speed was above 250MPH, same as other cars with Turbos do..

So! If you had this car.. Oil?

http://www.geekalerts.com/original-batmobile-at-ebay/

From article: "The car is 20 feet long and 8 feet wide. The chassis is custom built and the motor is a Chevrolet 350. There an o doors on the door. To get in you have to be able to enter through the top where the canopy opens, just like in the movie. "

I thought they made the Jet Turbine function somehow.

 

[demarpaint]

LOL is that a 1989 Batmobile? It looks like a 1998 Batmobile. Is that movie that old? Where did time go?

 

[HangerHarley]

Originally Posted By: demarpaint
LOL is that a 1989 Batmobile? It looks like a 1998 Batmobile. Is that movie that old? Where did time go?


I actually thought it was 1989 because i saw that movie when i was 8 years old! And it was the "1995" Auto show, IIRC..

Yup, i/we are OLD!

 

[QuOk]

If you dropped it out of an airplane at 30,000ft it still wouldn't hit 250mph.All that drag and a 350 motor wouldn't do it.

 

[HangerHarley]

Originally Posted By: QuOk
If you dropped it out of an airplane at 30,000ft it still wouldn't hit 250mph.All that drag and a 350 motor wouldn't do it.


You seem to be inferring the Jet Turbine was NOT Functional!!!!!

I saw it listed as "Top Speed: 270MPH+" at car show.

Here is a Callaway Sledgehammer Corvette that went 254MPH.. 254.7 actually! 1991, Twin Turbo C4. Niiiice

It had TurbO, not TurbINE.

http://www.z06-corvette.com/super/sledgehammer.htm

 

[HangerHarley]

Oh hey, from article: "Oiling is via an in-pan-style Barnes dry-sump system, which holds l0 quarts of Mobil l synthetic, the brand specified in production Callaway cars."

Seems i now like Mobil 1!

http://www.z06-corvette.com/super/sledgehammer.htm

 

[d00df00d]

Originally Posted By: HangerHarley
I thought they made the Jet Turbine function somehow.

Not AFAIK. I heard it was basically a flamethrower, and what actually drove the car was a plain-old piston engine.

 

[HangerHarley]

Originally Posted By: d00df00d
Originally Posted By: HangerHarley
I thought they made the Jet Turbine function somehow.

Not AFAIK. I heard it was basically a flamethrower, and what actually drove the car was a plain-old piston engine.


Wow. it SUCKS when your parents lie to you about "How GM Really made that car! And they put a Jet Turbine on it and made it just for the movie!"

Now i know more...

 

[demarpaint]

Originally Posted By: HangerHarley
Originally Posted By: demarpaint
LOL is that a 1989 Batmobile? It looks like a 1998 Batmobile. Is that movie that old? Where did time go?


I actually thought it was 1989 because i saw that movie when i was 8 years old! And it was the "1995" Auto show, IIRC..

Yup, i/we are OLD!

I wish I was 8 in 1989, I was married with a son and probably watched Batman with him. LOL

 

[electrolover]

i seem to remember a give away when i was a kid
someone was giving away THE batmobile from the 89 movie
wonder if this is the same car?

 

[spasm3]

Originally Posted By: QuOk
If you dropped it out of an airplane at 30,000ft it still wouldn't hit 250mph.All that drag and a 350 motor wouldn't do it.


I agree! that thing is not that aerodynamic, and it looks really heavy!

 

[d00df00d]

Originally Posted By: HangerHarley
I saw it listed as "Top Speed: 270MPH+" at car show.

Not a chance. As has been said, that's not exactly an aerodynamically-shaped car.

 

[d00df00d]

Originally Posted By: HangerHarley
Wow. it SUCKS when your parents lie to you about "How GM Really made that car! And they put a Jet Turbine on it and made it just for the movie!"

Now i know more...

Well, the car really was made just for the movie, and it was made out of a GM car (widened and lengthened 1969 Impala frame), and used in commercials for OnStar... but it wasn't made BY GM.

 

[Oldwolf]

No matter what you guys say...that is a cool looking car to me. Also I think Batman is MUCH cooler than Superman.

 

[demarpaint]

Was the Batmobile that Adam West drove in the 1960's a Ford? I liked the lines of that one better.

 

[d00df00d]

Originally Posted By: demarpaint
Was the Batmobile that Adam West drove in the 1960's a Ford? I liked the lines of that one better.

Modified Lincoln Futura concept car.

 

[HangerHarley]

Originally Posted By: d00df00d
Originally Posted By: demarpaint
Was the Batmobile that Adam West drove in the 1960's a Ford? I liked the lines of that one better.

Modified Lincoln Futura concept car.

 

[HangerHarley]

Originally Posted By: electrolover
i seem to remember a give away when i was a kid
someone was giving away THE batmobile from the 89 movie
wonder if this is the same car?


Actually MTV -DID- give one away.

There were 4 more.

 

[justinf89]

I remember like it was yesterday watching batman in 89 (IN THE WOMB)

 

[HangerHarley]

Originally Posted By: d00df00d
Originally Posted By: HangerHarley
I saw it listed as "Top Speed: 270MPH+" at car show.

Not a chance. As has been said, that's not exactly an aerodynamically-shaped car.

I thought it had a Jet Turbine and that length helped it stay on the ground.