ZACK LOFFERT: When I’m driving it, I can watch people’s mouth and they say you know, “Holy cow!”
ZACK LOFFERT: My name is Zack Loffert. I am the owner and builder of Big Batmobile, Colorado.
ZACK LOFFERT: I supply hot rods and classics for movies, commercials, film, photo shoots.
I get to play with grown up Hot Wheels all day long.
ZACK LOFFERT: My favourite thing to build by far has been Big. The reactions that this thing gets and people
know it from Colorado to New Zealand. I get messages everyday from people all over the world,
mostly asking for birthday parties, but that’s probably my favourite build by far.
ZACK LOFFERT: This is where we keep all the cool toys. We supply them for movies, commercials, photo shoots,
music videos, weddings and all kinds of crazy stuff. We do a lot of charity events and we are currently trying to
build a superhero playground and we use it to raise awareness for that.
ZACK LOFFERT: The engine is a 350 ‘76 Chevy block mated to an automatic transmission. The B&M is a
ratchet shifter, that’s what kicks it into gear. The top speed on Big, if you are downhill, is probably 70 miles an
hour. I have had a passion for cars since I was a kid. I didn’t go to daycare. I went to auto shops and I have just
been around them since I could walk. The car, before it turned into Big Batmobile, was a 73 El Camino.
ZACK LOFFERT: The biggest thing that people notice on Big Batmobile is the 44-inch tires. Second thing that
people see on Big is the texture of the paint job. This is all rhino liner, like a giant tank.
Of course you have your Batman decals all over.
ZACK LOFFERT: We wanted to make it a monster truck but also be able to drive it to every location
and that’s part of the fun.
ZACK LOFFERT: From start to finish, Big took three years.
ZACK LOFFERT: The best part about Big is when Batman suits up and he goes inside children’s hospital, it’s just an
unreal feeling. Seeing that is amazing. So, if you come around the back, you can see the additional seats that
the kids love to ride in.
ZACK LOFFERT: The idea came from a Subaru Brat. The cool thing is with these big 44-inch tires, they work as a
ladder. So you can just step right here, come up, sit down. You have a great advantage view.
You have seatbelts for safety. Locked in and you are good to go.
ZACK LOFFERT: Once we go in the Big, you can see the doors are customized. Batman sits here, he has got his
roll cage for safety. This was actually the toy that started this design. And then of course his trusty key chain.
Okay, so he knows which Batmobile to grab.
ZACK LOFFERT: So now we are going to take it for a drive. All right, let's start her up. Oh, we got to get the
wheel locked. There is a wheel locked on the side.
INTERVIEWER: Does Batman ever have this problem? ZACK LOFFERT: Batman always has this problem.
ZACK LOFFERT: All right, let's start it up.
ZACK LOFFERT: I have got a couple other designs for new Batmobiles in the future.
But right now we are focused on the playground.
ZACK LOFFERT: The total cost of building it? I just didn’t want to keep the receipts, better not to know than to
keep track. I had a dream and it wasn’t going to stop me to what it would take to build it.