Batmobile based on earlier model roars away to Singapore
When the (Louis) Marx toy company produced a friction-drive model Batmobile in the 1960s the plastic car that resulted was really a model of the 1951 General Motors Le Sabre concept show car designed by Harley Earl.
According to British Toy Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) of Runcorn, Cheshire, Marx had already bee…