The 1989 Batmobile Forum

It sure looks sweet in my garage

Almost driving. That's going to make you popular. Question, how wide did you make your rear wheels? I've heard that 12" is a good width, but what worked for you? There is a debate but the tires say a 12” wide wheel on the side wall I have seen photos of the real car with 15” and 12” I think th...

Today was the big day first test drive and it was a great success YouTube link here https://youtu.be/41GnJULtt2w?feature=shared

Today is a big day for my build today the car is finally sitting on its own weight all 6 wheels and off the jack stands it is officially a rolling chassis just a few more things and it will be drivable

In the video, it is just straight manual steering however, the plan is to have a power steering set up

First steering test in the you tube video
https://youtube.com/shorts/KqkXkKT9WW0? ... -FdMpmzdOc

Update one thing I noticed that they messed up on on the real car is that the brake rotors are directional for the cooling fins inside the rotors they have the rotors on backwards I put them on that way for these pictures but I will probably switch them to the right way I don’t know

I used box tubing on the ground leveled two pieces long ways and two cross ways then I laid my two main rails on that it was not great but it worked

finding the correct parts is hard enough but the CAD work prototyping and 3d printing the one off parts to machine takes the longest it seems here are some of progress photos from Jason of work he did from Septembe till now Fast forward to February now The parts are finally done for Gerrard’s car an...

Got a chance to see the tumbler in real life it is now on display at Warner brother studios in California I was able to get a ton of measurements and I can confirm the the tumbler is not 9’ wide it is smaller then that outside of the rear tires maybe they are getting their measurements off the wings...