Cities across the country have car shows, displaying anything from historic Model-T’s to 1980 Corvette Stingrays to gather people around the exciting engineering that goes into creating a car. It’s the kind of beauty, style, and precision of a vehicle makes a man feel a little something in middle of his heart. It’s what one vehicle in your life you have to own…

This car however, was nothing like that. This car, although it’s not quite street legal, was just plain kick-ass! Bob Dullam, a special effects artist out of Kalamazoo Michigan, has created a replica of the Tumbler, the giant, tank-like vehicle used as the Batmobile in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. The full size replica houses a GM 350 V8 ZZ4 engine mounted in reverse in the rear of the vehicle with a TCI Turbo Sizzler 3-speed transmission with a SCS counter rotation unit. Estimated Speed? About 150+ MPH.

(Click on any photo below to see it in its HUGE, ultra-awesome version!)

Dullam spent five years building the car from scratch, building the chassis and the body together at the same time (to get everything right). He began building the vehicle before Batman Begins actually came out, and perfected the design from the films.

Bob Dullam is a special effects artist. From his website, you can see all sorts of replica designs he has produced. He has created Batman’s suit, Robin’s suit, The head of The Predator, a Keaten suit, and more. His talents assisted him with his inspiration to create a full size, full operational (minus the weapons of course) version of the Tumbler.

The body isn’t actually “armor” like Batman has in the film, but rather fiberglass reinforced epoxy, reinforced two-part cast urethane, reinforced with steel. The vehicle runs quite well too, with the Chevy small-block pushing it to an estimated speed of over 150 miles per hour.

The vehicle isn’t completely without gadgets however. A computer system helps assist Bob from inside to allow him to see where he is going. Cameras are mounted on the sides and on the back so that he can see beside, and behind him at all times. The vehicle is controlled with an aviation-style, pistol-grip steering wheel that’s also built from scratch.

The vehicle was built in his home garage, and all standard parts are made in the U.S.A.

As an added effect in the future, Dullam plans to re-route the exhaust system, allowing the excess fuel to be pushed to the rear “jet” in the back (that is, as of this article, purely for looks). He’ll add an igniter, and with that, push a 20-foot flame out of the back of the vehicle upon request! It won’t really add anything to the acceleration to the car, but man will it be bad-ass!

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