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World’s only street-legal turbine powered Batmobile

Saturday, July 30th, 2011 | Car News, General

How would you like to drive your very own, real-life, turbine-powered Batmobile?

Casey Putsch discovered that you won’t find one at your local Chevy dealership. So he built one himself.

An aspiring racecar driver, Casey Putsch took 5 months to build the car using spare racecar parts and military surplus. How did he get his hands on those parts? Obviously his talents go beyond auto mechanics.

But don’t underestimate this man’s auto mechanics skills, either. His Batmobile reaches a top speed of 185 mph. The engine was made by Boeing and was reclaimed from a Navy helicopter. The turbine drives the car’s rear wheels via a semi-automatic transmission.

The Batmobile he built is a replica from the 1989 Blockbuster Batman movie, which was directed by Tim Burton. It starred Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger and grossed over $400 million worldwide.

When asked why he built such a vehicle, Casey says it’s the ideal of Batman that he appreciates and the fact that it’s such a cool car. He states, “What kid doesn’t like the Batmobile?” It was the combination of these factors that led to this creation.

Putsch insists he can build just about anything. After seeing this creation one would be hard-pressed to disagree.