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Man Builds Street-Legal Batmobile Using Turbine Engine

Seeded on Sat Feb 4, 2012 3:09 AM EST
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Aspiring race car driver Casey Putsch’s has built a street-legal Batmobile using Boeing turbine engine.

The vehicle is a replica from the 1989 Batman movie directed by Tim Burton and has a top speed of 185 MPH! It only took Putsch 5 months to build the car using military surplus and race car parts.

Casey told The Discovery Channel, “What kid doesn’t like the Batmobile? As an adult, it is now the ideal of Batman that I especially appreciate. Those things combined with my ability to create and my desire for a challenge are what led to this creation.”

The turbine engine is military grade and made by Boeing. It was reclaimed from a Navy drone helicopter that dropped torpedoes on enemy submarines. The turbine drives the car’s rear wheels via a semi-automatic transmission.

Putsch says “I can build you almost anything”. And I don’t think he’s joking. He’s taught himself how to rebuild the turbine engine. See more Pics;

 

 

 

 

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Jerry Verlinger

I wonder if it attracts attention when it's out on the highway.

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Reply#1 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 3:11 AM EST
Z1P2

The vehicle is a replica from the 1989 Batman movie directed by Tim Burton and has a top speed of 185 MPH! It only took Putsch 5 months to build the car using military surplus and race car parts.

Somehow I doubt that body work is just military surplus and race car parts... the body work impresses me more than him knowing how to fix a turbine engine, anyone can figure out how to fix a turbine... but it takes real talent to sculpt something like that car body.

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Reply#2 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 3:41 AM EST
TR-421173

Nice

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Reply#3 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 1:46 PM EST
Jonathan-1917156

The drone that the turbine came from was probably made by boeing, but the turbine itself certainly wasn't made by boeing.

It was probably a Pratt & Witney

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Reply#4 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 2:14 PM EST
BXURZ

I just got back from the Auto Show in D.C., I must have missed that one,..

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Reply#5 - Sun Feb 5, 2012 12:09 AM EST
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