The "original" Batmobile?

[bluesbassman]

1927 Mercedes Benz Type 680 S "Count Trossi". What a gorgeous car.

[Aristus]

1. Wow!

What a car!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear bluesbassman!

Wow, what a fantastic-looking car! It is really stunning, and it seems to me to be way ahead of its time, as far as the design is concerned anyway.

It sure could have been the prototype for the Batmobile!

Thanks for sharing this magnificent beast!

[hifiguy]

3. Holy cow, if that car exists, it is in the Bugatti Royale class

in terms of both rarity and eight-figure value. Stunning.

"Fledermausmann" doesn't quite work though.

[bluesbassman]

4. It does. There are five known 1927 Type 680 SSKs left.

The last one I could find selling was a '27 26/180 Sportwagen that sold at Pebble Beach in 2011 for $5,000,000. The "Count Trossi" is apparently the only one of it's kind. It was cutom built for the Count and designed by Ferdinand Porsche.

I would bet that your estimate of an eight-figure value is spot on.

[Scuba]

5. Mine rides rough.

[bluesbassman]

6. LOL. You mean this one?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. In the 1940s black & white Batman serials, they PHONED the Batmobile IN.

It was just a CAR. They didn't do ANYTHING to it.

[AnneD]

8. That car....

would get ticketed just parked in a drive way...Hot car.

[hifiguy]

9. A couple more ultra-rare stunners

1937 Bugatti 57 S Atalante



(The only) 1937 Cadillac V-16 Hartmann Cabriolet