It's almost the weekend, so WELCOME TO AUTOMOTIVE POP CULTURE THURSDAY! Today is fulla BATS starting with this amazing 1966 BARRIS BAT and Fireball's (semi-modified) Original Sketch for the 1989 BAT from 1986! Both great pieces for your NOSTALGIC GARAGE WALL or MAN CAVE... or get 'em MUGGED!
DID YOU KNOW?? The first Batmobile appeared in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939) as Bruce Wayne's red sedan. The term "Batmobile" wasn't used until Detective Comics #48 (February 1941), when Robin started calling it that! Ug,... teenagers. The Batmobile driven by Michael Keaton in the 1989 and 1992 movies was built on two 1967 Chevy Impalas found in a London junkyard! They featured V-8 Chevrolet engines, components of a Rolls-Royce jet engine for the hood-mounted intake, and turbine blades from a British Harrier fighter jet! Zoinks!!
And meanwhile... ON PLANET FIREBALL... The Ball meets up with GM Head at the time, CHUCK JORDAN at the LA Auto Show 2008 and then recently, celebrates a Winner at the FUEL FOR LIFE Car Show!
FEATURED ART today is Fireball's BATMISSILE & BATMAN REVENGE Sketches! Batalicious ON MUGS!! Check 'em out and be sure to hit the BATACHINNO! Also... a RANDOM FIREBALL from Ventura with the Ball getting a Speeding Ticket for standing still! PLUS, a HYPERTECH SKETCH for Muscle & Fitness Magazine called PIPELINER from the early 90's and his VERY FIRST SKETCH for the film PITCH BLACK. This one was done in his first meeting with Director David Twohy over Coffee. Watch the film to see what it became!
BEHIND THE SCENES from the shop back in the day... This TERMINATOR was hired for security. All good until clients started to disappear. Wups. We had to let him go...
And lastly... this amazing painting from Master DAN GOOZEE of SPLASH MOUNTAIN at Disneyland. Tell us you remember this one! The weekend is almost here, so remember to DRAW LIKE A BOSS!!
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