You've got to see thses videos.. 1957 and in color, the Kopper Kart, the Kookie T, the Car Craft Dream Truck

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=1836

in the second one George Barris is walking around in huge monster slippers, another guy is wearign a monster t shirt, everyone was trying to get a kiss from the trophy girl

Custom AMX's, the Breedlove AMX 600, and the Barris El Toro

Variations of the 67-69 Barracuda you may not have heard of, Barris SXB, Savage

Custom looks in the 1960's for conservative cars

Above, a Barris application

The Barris taxi for the Bob Denver tv show "Good Guys"

Read all about it: http://books.google.com/books?id=MoLmwZfLk_cC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=barris+taxi&source=bl&ots=liHlPj1jMC&sig=-rRVZTxcp-wk5V066b4Tu7ESw3w&hl=en&ei=FPhLS-jbIIaIsgPa5emiCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=barris%20taxi&f=false

But the cool kustom stuff was a grappling hook to slow or stop it, no tires and rims were the same, the taxi meter was a pair of coffee pots linked together top to top to form an hourglass that had metalflakes (that usually are put in hot rod paint)

Did you know George Barris had sold "weirdo shirts" and sneakers?

"Get action with Metalflake" advertised George Barris

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