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HIDDEN from public view for over 50 years, in the early 60s, the Golden Sahara was one of America's most famous cars.
Many things make Batman the best superhero, and the Batmobile is chief among them. Sure, the others can fly, run at super speed, and all of that, but none of them are rolling in a sick whip. The ...
The car was done in the crazy three-week time frame at a cost of around $30,000. Barris kept ownership of the Batmobile and leased it to 20th Century Fox for use in the series and later the movie.
Barris' Batmobile was based on the 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car, which back in the day cost Ford $250,000 to build. After losing interest in the vehicle, Ford allowed it to wither away, and ...
Built by George Barris, the “King of the Kustomizers” in person, a black 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am once used as a promotional vehicle for the Knight Rider TV series is up for sale in ...
Barris made the Batmobile by transforming a 1955 Lincoln Futura show car. According to a 2013 article in Autoweek, Barris re-formed the fins, changed the grille and gave the headlights a gothic look.
Over the years, he has racked up a collection of stunning motors worth over £800,000 , including the "fastest car of the '60s" and a Mini specially adapted to store his drum kit.
His collection numbers almost 150 vehicles, not including the wild cars he uses for daily transportation (all of them painted an identical pearl yellow and cocoa brown with orange pinstriping).
The legendary George Barris's work speaks for itself, and Lil Redd Wrecker might be his most amazing. Read on as we take a deep dive into this car.
Joji Barris-Paster, owner of Barris Kustom, who is based in Ventura County, Calif., on her Barris Kustom cars, as told to A.J. Baime. My father, George Barris, was known as the “King of the ...
While Barris’ shop was famous for designing and building hot rods and vehicles like The Munsters ’ Koach and Drag-U-La, it was The Batmobile created for the 1966 Batman television series that really ...
While all that seems rather normal for a Detroit car show, I’m not sure introductions like that ever happen at car shows in other cities. Conrad’s Mustang II wasn’t the only car on the Autorama floor ...