Man who spent two years building the world's first street-legal Batmobile - PHOTO

15:49 | 12.06.2014
Man who spent two years building the world's first street-legal Batmobile - PHOTO

Man who spent two years building the world's first street-legal Batmobile - PHOTO

After a life-long love of Batman, 29-year-old Sydney man Zac Mihajlovic spent two years building a Batmobile in his backyard.The superhero enthusiast made a 6.2 metre Batmobile modelled in accurate detail on the one used by Batman in the 1989 movie - the only one in the world with full street registration.With a passion for the winged comic character, in 2009 Mr Mihajlovic bought a few spare parts from the actual Batmobile used in the movie and put them away.'I'm a car and bike guy so I love all that sort of stuff,' he said. 'It doesn't get much better, if you can build anything what would you build? For me it was a Batmobile,' he told MailOnline.Mr Mihajlovic let the parts sit around while he built a Batbike and it was not until 2010 that he got in touch Warner Brothers Australia to see if there were any licensing issues for building a Batmobile.Getting the all clear, Mr Mihajlovic started working on the Batmobile with his grandfather John Greene, a retired mechanical engineer and Scott Cox. 'I could see at that point why nobody else had done it before,' he said.Mr Mihajlovic, who lives with his grandparents and has no formal mechanical training built the Batmobile at home and at Mr Cox's workshop. 'About 30 per cent is made from the parts used in the film and the rest was moulded and made,' he said.'It started with my grandfather who said "any fantasy can become a reality", so we took that to the next level.' The vehicle was finished at the end of 2011 and sat in Mr Mihajlovic's garage for one-year until he decided what he wanted to do with at the end of 2012. At this point Mr Mihajlovic wanted to get Batmobile registered, but with movie cars not designed for safety, he said it took about a full year to get it passed as roadworthy. As part of this process, Mr Mihajlovic took the car to Queensland to work on it with an engineer for nearly three months to make changes needed to get the car registered.The Batmobile was finally registered in December 2013 and Mr Mihajlovic said it was a moment of validation. 'Before it had plates people thought it was just a plastic prop,' he said.The car does not feature machine guns, grappling hooks, or oil slick dispensers like Batman's, but it does have a working front turbine and afterburner.'I've always been a movie fan. Batman has the coolest vehicle and he's the only one without super powers,' he said.Mr Mihajlovic lives in Cobbitty in south west Sydney and has seen his life change since finishing and getting the vehicle registered in December last year.'There are between 10 and 12 in the world and this is the only one in Australia, besides a prop at Movie World,' he said.'As far as I know, it's the only one in the world with full street registration,' he said. 'Some have conditions to parades and that sort of thing. 'When the Roads and Traffic Authority came to the house to inspect it and they were impressed with the quality.'(dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.az
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