Really Cool vehicles in the movies or TV

[white wolf]

I was watching Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and began thinking about some of the really cool vehicles that I have seen on TV through the years. Although this thread is inspired by TV, I don't want to limit it to TV only. Anyhow off the top of my head I came up with some of my more memorable favorites

1. The Seaview Submarine
2. The Flying Sub
3. The Batmobile
4. Airwolf
5. The Enterprise
6. The Klingon Ships
7. Black Beauty ( Green Hornets Car )
8. The Jupiter 2 Flying Saucer from Lost In Space
9. The Flying Saucer from "The Invaders"

[Pinknik]

The Dragula.

[tomhayes]

6000 SUX from Robocop

Detials:
77 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
Two complete SUX cars that were fully operational was built with parts for a third one that the pro duction people blew up in Dallas. From the beginning they wanted a big car in the four-door configuration, one that could be modernized to make It look more futuristic, so for the basic body they chose a '77 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, mainly because it had an Interesting window line.

They designed in a large air inlet In the front, a couple more air inlets on the sides and toward the rear and then a very large rectangular exhaust system In the center rear. The actual auto bodies themselves were made from fiberglass components. They mocked up the SUX in metal, foam and plastic, and then took fiberglass molds of it and made fiberglass parts. The complete front end was all removable as one piece back to the windshield, and the back end lifted up like a trunk. As for the engine and interior work, that was all stock -whatever came with the Oldsmobile in the first place.

[Andrew T.]

How about KITT?

[JohnT]

-OR-

[-=Rudy=-]

The Dragula.

http://www.munsterkoach.com/Dragula1.htm

I wonder how much Rob Zombie's song "Dragula" has to do with this car...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCVTbOISv1w

Looks like the engine is roughly modeled after it, but the prop car is a four-seater, more or less.

[Doug Sclar]

It's funny to see this thread. Just the other day I saw what has to have been the original Batmobile. I can't remember exactly where I was, but I think it was on PCH near Newport Beach and it was driving the other way. It surely looked old and dirty, but if it wasn't the original, it had to be a clone. :D

[Steve Hoffman]

You kiddin'?

[-=Rudy=-]

The Henry Ford Museum has one of the Oscar Meyer Wenie-mobiles there. I think it's one of the earlier original ones. They also have some of the presidential limos including, I think, the one that JFK was riding in.

[Radiotron]

You kiddin'?

The TenderBallz!

[-=Rudy=-]

Yabba-dabba-do!

[Ed Bishop]

Been watching the Season 1 PERRY MASON box set, and it reminded me that those '50s cars were real tanks, and designed with distinction.

Still, that Batmobile from the TV show remains a personal fave...:)

:ed:

[Dillydipper]

The Henry Ford Museum has one of the Oscar Meyer Wenie-mobiles there. I think it's one of the earlier original ones..

I worked a radio show in Minneapolis some time ago that got the Weinermobile for a week; we drove the "top dog" of a lucky office in to work every day.

[Wmacky]

But of course....


Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

[Butterfly Blue]

Definitely "The Car"...

[apileocole]

There's a wonderfully mad Dr., can't say Who, that seems to go about in a phone booth.

That, Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and Moya from Farscape are my favs not already listed here :)

[Laservampire]

The Delorean from "Back To The Future"

The modified Ford Falcon Coupe from "Mad Max"

[Michael]

NOTHING beats the MUNSTER COACH for coolness...:agree:

[theoxrox]

It's funny to see this thread. Just the other day I saw what has to have been the original Batmobile. I can't remember exactly where I was, but I think it was on PCH near Newport Beach and it was driving the other way. It surely looked old and dirty, but if it wasn't the original, it had to be a clone. :D

There were about a half-dozen or so copies made of the Batmobile for use in the show. The original was the Lincoln Futura "dream car" from 1955 which was customized into the Batmobile by (I believe) George Barris.

For that matter, a gentleman in Virginia made some copies of the Lincoln Futura body, designed to fit on a late 70's/1980's full-size GM chassis (Chev Caprice, for instance).

[JMT]

The Monkeemobile

http://www.monkees.net/jpg/mobile.jpg

[Hawkman]

There were about a half-dozen or so copies made of the Batmobile for use in the show. The original was the Lincoln Futura "dream car" from 1955 which was customized into the Batmobile by (I believe) George Barris.



I believe that there were a few made not only for the show but also for 'touring' to car shows and drag racing.

Pardon the crappy scan but the picture has been in plastic since 1967 when it was taken at a car show here in New Jersey. Me on the right, brother on the left, Batmobile extreme right. :) This was taken in winter as I recall and as you can tell by the way we are dressed. I believe that the car that we saw was the one used for drag racing. I believe that is what appears to be a 'harness' or 'seatbelt' of some type that you can see on what would be Robin's seat, just in front of the tallest of the three pipes on the trunk of the car.

As I recall, this show also had the BatBike AND James Bond's Aston-Martin from Goldfinger, although wisdom in my later years tells me that it was probably a 'touring version' like the Batmobile. I can't say for sure.

But it didn't matter to us in 1967. We didn't know about touring versions and the like. To my brother and I, we saw THE Batmobile and that's all there was to it.

(Note the carboard Batman & Robin standee to the back of the car on the right.)

[Linus]

The 1955 Lincoln Futura from:

http://www.javelinamx.com/Batmobile/
According to this site there are at least 5 "genuine" Batmobiles out there.

[Hawkman]

But of course....


Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Of course!!!

http://www.chittygen11.com/

[Mal]

This has to be the coolest vehicle used in a TV show:

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Satellite/1181/images/articles/autocar.jpg

McGill's Hillman Imp - actually so uncool that it IS cool :agree:

[Capt. Cadillac]

Well, since you did say vehicles (not just cars)...