N.B. man brings Batmobile to superhero fanatic [Video]

He knew it was coming, but when the Batmobile pulled up to his house Bernie Hicks was still a little surprised.

“That’s not something you see up here very often,” said Hicks.

Known as the ‘Batman of Amherst,’ Hicks has always wanted to sit in a Batmobile. Thanks to the kindness of a stranger he got to do that on Sunday.

The replica Batmobile was built by Donald McHugh of Bouctouche, N.B., who spent a little over two years making it. The body is a 1979 Lincoln Town Car that he found in New Jersey and the chassis is from Saskatchewan.

“It’s fun. It’s the dream of a lot of young boys,” said McHugh. “There’s a bunch of different things in there. There’s a lot of custom-made parts of course and we did what we could. It looks decent.”

McHugh heard about Hicks about a year ago when he was working on the car and when the project was …