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GM’s Batmobile proposal mocked up by Paul Deesen on Chuck Jordan’s personal 1967 Corvette Coupe.
You can easily understand why GM's proposal lost.
TRIVIA: George Barris signed a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television and Greenway Productions that paid him $150 (1966 dollars) per episode to have the Batmobile in the TV show of which there were 120 of them. In today's money that would be $1247.64 per episode. Total = $18,000 ($149,059.94 in 2021 dollars).
Barris built 5 Batmobiles and put them into shows all over the country. The Batmobile was Barris' biggest cash cow.
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