Pimp My Batmobile!

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I just heard from my friend Joe Kelly Jr. of The Car Room magazine and Playing With Cars web-show, who has a ton of new stuff going on right now. In addition to redoing his website and starting the magazine – he is working with George  Barris‘ producer – Ralph Riccardi on a new, as of yet unnamed show pilot for PBS.  Here’s some footage of a segment with Limodoctor Anthony Taffuri where they stroll through his secret lair full of amazing limousines, a Black Beauty, a W.I.P. STEEL Monkeymobile and of course, a Batmobile. They also tour Anthony’s toy room where we glimpse a custom stretch Futura model, as well as many other goodies.

Now we just have to get Anthony some of our PMB! parts or a fully upgraded HW Batmobile so he doesn’t have to keep looking at that horrible blow-molded 1/6 Joemobile with the ugly rims. (just teasing)  My favorite part of this clip is the end, with Joe donnng a replicowl to go fight crime.

Thanks Joe, great luck with the new endeavors!

TCR TV Secret Location from Ralph Riccardi on Vimeo.

It’s fair to say that I think Joe kelly Jr.’s The Car Room Magazine and Playing With Cars website are the best diecast car resources in the world by a longshot. I think Joe’s delivery style and attitude are a breath of fresh air, and as far as his videos go  – I’d like to be him when I grow up.  After reviewing the Hot Wheels Elite Batmobile 2 months ago, he’s back with another video review for the Super Elite Batmobile. Joe and I agree almost 100% about the value of this car. He also points out one aspect that I forgot to mention: the PE grillwork under the hood nose pierced vents. Take a look:

If you guys haven’t checked out Joe Kelly Jr.’s Playing With Cars website (the web component of The Car Room magazine) you’ve been missing out on the most informative, best-produced model car entusisast resource there is in the world. I’ve long admired Joe’s informative and entertaining video reviews of some of the coolest die-cast models and this weekend he produced a video on the Elite Batmobile!

One of the best things about Joe’s videos are – him! His attitude and delivery are a breath of fresh air in this hobby. I was trying to get him a couple shots he needed of the undercarriage but I missed his deadline and he still gave us a shout-out on the video! How cool is that!

One of the other great things is that Joe does his own music for his videos and produces them himself. I composed and recorded music for commercials professionally for 12 years, own a small studio and I’m still stealing Queen songs for my You Tube vids. LOL Maybe next time!

Anyway – I highly recommend bookmarking his site if you’re a fan of automobilia at all, and specifically going there to watch the Batmobile video that’s up right now. He also has great sponsors and lots of accessories that would go well with the Batmobile.

-Scot