For a province that doesn’t exist throughout the DC Universe, Ontario has a peculiar variety of 1:1 Batmobiles. There are at the very least two Keaton/Burton Era Batmobiles on the road, and shortly, due to Fugitive Custom Cars, two West Era/Barris cars.
Contributing two to the local streets one might Fugtive is thought for constructing “Star Cars”.
Jason Roberts is a hot rod guy, not a nerd like me, and when he began Fugitive Customs, his goal was to be involved in constructing as many high-quality vehicles as possible.
Jason Roberts is a hot rod guy, not a nerd like me, and when he began Fugitive Customs, his goal was to be involved in constructing as many high-quality vehicles as possible.
His friend Ian McIntosh nonetheless, he’s a nerd and the one which has commisioned Fugitive to construct rowdy versions of popular cars.
I used to be first introduced to Fugitive Custom Cars on Instagram via a photograph one among the 2 Batmobiles early on within the construct process. I desperately tried to seek out more details about it and, on the time, not lots more was to be found.
Last 12 months at Motorama 2025 I learned what I saw as an earlier version of the automotive now generally known as ‘Bat-Gas’.
Done by one other party, the primary hand-formed aluminum body, wasn’t quite as much as Fugitive standards. Nonetheless, it was still very much a Batmobile, so the alternative was made do something nobody else would think to do. Construct a 632-cubic-inch, 1000+ horsepower big block powered, Batmobile-shaped, ‘drag’ automotive.
There’s currently no intention to take Bat-Gas down the strip, nevertheless it does run, drive and burnout with ease.
Consider the automotive as a “fairground cruiser,” an idea popularized by the over-the-top Pro Street movement of the 80s and early 90s.
After the custom chassis was complete and the body was mounted, Fugtive commissioned Rollie Guertin to pinstripe the vehicle, and Bat-Gas was easily some of the talked about and photographed builds of the Motorama 2025.
The black automotive, ‘Bruce’s Tow Vehicle’, is all the pieces Bat Gas was originally intended to be: black, clean, low and fast.
Looking more just like the screen automotive, on steroids, the Tow vehicle incorporates a second hand-fabricated body, this time done by Vintage Tin and painted by Wealthy Refinishing.
One other custom chassis is employed, this one featuring Corvette front and rear sub-frames. Air suspension brings the flared fenders down over Radir wheels that hide a Wilwood brake setup.
The motor is a stroked Chevrolet LS1 V8 fit with a D-1SC Procharger dyoned at 853.7 HP.
While Bat Gas is generally considered finished, the black automotive still needed some buttoning up. I’m not totally sure if either will likely be at Motorama 2026, but considering the reception they received in 2025, I wouldn’t count them out.
Guess we’ll just should tune in same Bat Time, same Bat channel March thirteenth, 14th and fifteenth.
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