$300,000 or best offer!

Would that be the one driven by Gary Balough, or by Bruce Wayne? 

For that price, I would hope both!

Hey Rick I really did laugh out loud on your comment....Both for that price....Must be Gary's retirement fund i would guess?? Even at todays prices you could probably build 3... and have your own race..Kool...Good luck Gary...

I think they are talking about the Weld Batmobile. The other ones are in other collections.The 300 thousand kinda narrows things down on this site to maybe just Joe and Kevin. 

....just Kevin!

I wonder if Chris Larsons other cars will be for sale? He owns the 73, 3, and 24. 

The guy selling it actually contacted me personally this afternoon. Said if it doesn't sell, it goes to either Mecum or Barrett-Jackson. Apparently this guy Mike Howell is handling the sale for Chris.

Doubt he would get half his asking price at either of those auctions.. 98% of the people there won't even know what is is.. His best hope is call ins that recognize the car and its history..Good Luck..Better yet keep it and do some vintage racing and have some fun...

NOT ME!!!! But would be cool to own.

I know Uncle Tom will hit me on this, but Eric Mack (DKM), who did the last restoration and performance upgrades to it, stayed with us this past weekend to attend the GSVSCC event. He told me Chris was sending it to auction in the next month or so. Chris says everyone has seen it that needs to see it, so let someone else show it and enjoy it now.   Thank God they did an excellent reastoration on it because it was in pretty bad shape before that.

John, Chris has an old Cagle coupe that my friend John Adamsky owned.

The 300k price is just to get people talking about the car before the upcoming auction. 

Car that ruined racing in this area.

I don't know if anything ruined racing, (I still find some enjoyment in it) but if we're going to look at if the the Weld Batmobile had a negative effect on racing in this area, I would say that it was the lack of having a more restrictive rules package going into the 1980 Syracuse event that would have in all likelyhood kept Weld and others from ever building it, or certainly, building it as it became.

Once the toothpaste was out of the tube, the only thing to do then was to take a stand on what would be allowed/not allowed going forward.

The second area to put blame is on the inability of those that were in a position of influence/power, to come up with a rules package at what was a critical time as teams were moving away from factory bodies and fabricating the bodies however they wanted, and then winking as they told the tech inspectors what factory car body it was supposed to represent.  Kind of like how the Batmobile was a Continental...  

Those with whom the responsibility fell, could have slowed the change, but nothing would have stopped it.

Take a look now (42 years later) at what is happening to the Outlaw Stock/Factory Stock classes across the country.  Other than Wall Stadium that still manages to get 20+ G bodied cars for their Factory Stock class (almost all Monte Carlos), every other track has the biggest collection of "Flatmobiles", where just about every panel on Factory Stock/Bomber Class/etc., is sheet metal flat.... with some kind of rear spoiler that too has nothing to do with anything that ever came out of Detroit.

And amazingly, in another 2 years or so, they'll all look exactly the same Flatmobile ugly, as real bodies get harder to find, and are much harder to work with.

You can't stop it, and I don't see the need to blame a team that according to those I have spoke to, showed up to a Syracuse Guy Fight in 1980, with a gun, while most others showed up with their 1979 sharpened knives.

Otherwise known as the beginning of the end...

Anybody ever notice? You never see these two guys together...

An episode of Seduced by Speed on Motor Trend TV featured GB and showed him driving the Batmobile the shop.