The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 531.

This week, for our final show of January, 2023, Mark Ray Cupp joins us to talk about the business of building Batmobiles.

I'm talking about the OG, the Adam West and Bert Ward Batmobile.

His company is called Fiberglass Freaks, and he's the only licensed by DC Comics and

Warner Brothers producer of Batmobiles. He's made a bunch of them, and his passion for that car

in particular is what keeps him going. We're going to talk about everything, how he builds them,

how he charges for them, and how in this case at least, the lawyers have all agreed that the

Batmobile, this Batmmobile isn't just a car

and then they won the lawsuit using copyright protection calling the batmobile a character

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Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed. I am Rob Kibby and welcome to the

Muscle Car Place podcast. Well, here we are, the final show at January 2023 and our final month of

inspiration. So this one is business inspiration. Last week, we talked about racing. This one is huge.

This is another fun one. It scratches a personal itch. I think you're

going to just love it. So our guest today is a guy named Mark Raycup. He owns a company called

Fiberglass Freaks. This is a very lengthy interview, so I'm going to roll to it fairly quickly.

I have had Mark on before. If you're a long time listener and fan, you heard him in show

373. That was in October of 2018, so almost four and a half years ago at this point.

It seemed time for a refresh. I heard he was retiring. I think I saw that on social media.

And that's initially why I reached out. Four and a half years ago, though, well, four years

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