Corgi Batmobile History 1966 – 1983: All Corgi 267 Batmobile were made at the Mettoy plant Swansea South Wales UK.

Corgi Batmobile History 1966 – 1983All Corgi 267 Batmobile were made at the Mettoy plant Swansea South Wales UK.The first Corgi 267 Batmobile was first produced in October 1966 and was produced for about 6 months. It was painted matt black and had wheels with red bats on gold hubs.The next version was identical to the 1st except that it was gloss black in appearance (same box and accessories). It is known as the “Bat-Hub” BatmobileShortly after this Corgi designed the Batboat (Corgi no. 107); this was on a trailer that was supposed to attach to the rear of the Batmobile.Immediately there was a snag as there was no way to attach the trailer to the back of the car. To get around this Corgi quickly made a black plastic trailer coupling that pushed on over the Batmobile’s exhaust, these plastic trailer couplings are now very rare as they more often got broken or lost.Corgi realized that they needed a more permanent way of attaching the boat to the car and developed the tow-hook Batmobile. This was another version and subsequent Batmobile variants were fitted with a tow hook.For the 1973 Corgi stopped using rubber tyres and swapped to hard plastic smooth sided Whizzwheels on chrome 8 spoked hubs.The introduction of the Whizzwheels also meant the modification of the rear suspension however the front suspensions not change. Another casualty of these wheels was the jet turbine flame from this point on it didn’t go in and out.Another version only differed by having different tyres they showed treads on the side walls.The 1976 version had different 12 spoke chrome hubs with tyres they showed tread on the side walls.Also it had a raised inscription on the base saying: “”Batmobile”” and “”National Periodicals Publications, Inc””.Corgi went on to make a wide-wheeled version until 1983. Typically Batmobile could be found with the common blue canopy (aqua or light blue) but they were also made with clear, purple, light purple, green, aqua green or light aqua canopy.Corgi made roughly 4.9 million of these cars over the years. The Batmobile changed so much over the years… —- ISBN: 9798551097877