{"id":74516,"date":"2013-01-20T13:21:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T20:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=74516"},"modified":"2013-01-20T13:21:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T20:21:18","slug":"holy-cow-original-batmobile-from-tv-series-sells-for-42-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=74516","title":{"rendered":"Holy cow! Original Batmobile from TV series sells for $4.2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An Arizona man with a special fondness for caped crusader Batman and his sidekick Robin bought the original Batmobile driven in the iconic television series with a bid of $4.2 million at an auction on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rick Champagne, a Phoenix-area logistics company owner, came away with the black, futuristic two-seater featured in the &#8220;Batman&#8221; series starring Adam West\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 More\u00c2\u00a0and Burt Ward from 1966 to 1968, following a flurry of spirited bidding at the Scottsdale, Arizona, auction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I really liked Batman growing up and I came here with\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/holy-cow-original-batmobile-tv-series-sells-4-055314083.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Arizona man with a special fondness for caped crusader Batman and his sidekick Robin bought the original Batmobile driven in the iconic television series with a bid of $4.2 million at an auction on Saturday. Rick Champagne, a Phoenix-area logistics company owner, came away with the black, futuristic two-seater featured in the &#8220;Batman&#8221; series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74517,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74516\/revisions\/74517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}