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Monday, January 7, 2013

the 70's strike back with a vengeance... the Travolta Fever Firebird... I bet you're laughing. I am

0 comments Posted by Unknown at 6:18 PM

I wonder if this sort of thing embarrasses anyone in the years long after the impulse wears off?

Full gallery at http://flaviendachet.blogspot.de/2011/10/pontiac-travolta-fever-by-george-barris.html

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

San Diego held an Annual Autorama from at least 1957 -1959, A Custom and Hot Rod Show, some icons attended included Roth with his Outlaw, Kookie's T-Bucket, Tommy Ivo, and the Kopper Kart

0 comments Posted by Unknown at 7:27 PM

above image and the rest of the story thanks entirely to Kelly and Crystal Hutchinson who posted it at http://ecotisticmag.com/204/

Ed “Big Daddy” Roth was present at the show with one of his earliest creations, “Excalibur” (named after his mother-in-law’s family’s Revolutionary War sword that he used as the shifter). The name he later changed to the “Outlaw”. Ed drove down in a 1957 Chevy with a trunk full of t-shirts, easels, and an airbrush kit.

Kookie’s Car, built by Norm Grabowski, was pulled off the set of the “‘77 Sunset Strip” television show just to be displayed at this event. It was a bold move. If anything would have happened to the car, it would have halted the production of the show and much of the success it later famed.

Larry Watson displayed a brand new 1959 Thunderbird at the event that he had just purchased and repainted. Larry became a famous pinstriper and painter. He grew up in California and witnessed the work of Von Dutch and Dean Jeffries at Barris Kustoms.

above image from http://www.streetrodderweb.com/features/0711sr_trophy_queen/photo_18.html

model Louise Muller and the Ala Kart, photo from the Bog Book of Barris, google books, http://books.google.com/books?id=ATjy1tKxfjYC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=%22san+diego+AUTORAMA%22&source=bl&ots=Iz-J0Pk1fv&sig=TuorWt9DG5KG59KX2rBBiytG9Y4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2TppT426D-aXiALJ0ICIBw&ved=0CGQQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22san%20diego%20AUTORAMA%22&f=false

from the august 1957 Hot Rod magazine

and it was mentioned ina magazine called the Red Cedar Review, issue 8:2/3 page 71, author Peter Nye

and 4 pages were about the San Diego Autorama in the September 1958 issue of Custom Cars found on ebay http://esp.ebay.com/viewItem?item=140713003320&v=gbh

and is mentioned to an unknown extent in the February 1962 Car Craft and Cart also from the same seller on Ebay

Monday, November 28, 2011

A Barris built custom was in the parking lot at the Del Mar Goodguys

0 comments Posted by Unknown at 9:02 PM

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

the shops of Watson and Barris found on howtobuildatimemachine.tumblr.com

0 comments Posted by Unknown at 9:21 PM

just two shops of this era and reputation, and I found them both at http://howtobuildatimemachine.tumblr.com/

Sunday, January 30, 2011

The Firebug, by Barris

0 comments Posted by Unknown at 9:51 AM

The original plan was for the Fire Bug to be a promotional or parade rig for the Los Angeles City Fire Department during Fire Prevention Week and such, even though it lacks the departmental markings you might expect. Mechanically, it’s a chopped-pan VolkswagenÂ Microbus, oddly fitted with dual rear wheels.

It was a prop on The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, from the save tidal wave of bubblegum mania that gave the world The Archies and Josie and the Pussycats. RM Auctions offered the Fire Bug at its Fort Lauderdale auction on Feburary 2009

It was a 1969 collaboration between George Barris and his partner of the moment, Dick Dean in the late 60's and was in storage for more than 35 years... it seems a lot of Barris creations spent decades in storage, the Tastee Big T did http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/06/1966-kustom-built-by-barris-big-t.html

see a whole gallery of photos from 1996 and the new owner http://www.hotrodhotline.com/feature/friends/06firebug/