It was last month that we first brought you news of an American man who created the world’s only turbine-engined Batmobile replica (read news). It’s an amazing piece of engineering but is entirely impractical and exists only to help play out the boyhood fantasies of its owner and creator Casey Putsch. But now, Putsch has gone tired of this pricey toy and has put it up for sale on eBay Motors.

The Batmobile has a shape made famous by the earlier Keaton-era Batman movies and is powered by the same Boeing turboshaft engine found in the likes of a U.S Navy drone helicopter. The price tag is a very heavy $620,000 USD, that’s a lot of money to play dress ups. (more…)

Thrust SSC, Black Rock Desert, Nevada. World Land Speed Record

This is a Dodge Turbine car promo film from Chrysler Corporation in January 1962. This is a cross country drive of the 1962 Dodge Turbine car. This is a Stardard Dodge 2 door Hardtop modified with the experimental Chrysler Turbine Engine and some slightly different styling. This is 18 months before Chrysler launched the famous test of the Chrysler Turbine Car among the US public