Camp still has its fans, apparently. The original Batmobile, an icon of the 1960s TV show portrayal of Batman, sold Saturday night for an astounding $4.62 million.

Originally built by Ford in the mid-1950s as the Lincoln Futura concept car (on a prototype Continental Mark II chassis, no less), the Batmobile took on its current guise a decade later when Hollywood customizer George Barris bought the Futura from Ford for $1 and arranged to provide a car for Twentieth Century Fox's upcoming Batman television show. He then drew up a design, had Bill Cushenberry make a few alterations to the Futura body, removed the center section of the bubble canopy, painted it black with orange highlights, and added the various gadgets and gee-gaws that helped make the car famous. While it suffered plenty of wear and tear from its use through the entire run of the show, Barris held on to the Batmobile up until this weekend, rarely missing an opportunity to promote it or show it off over the last 45 years.

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