Showing posts with label Barris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barris. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Found at SEMA: the talented, famous, gifted, and Corky Coker posing
Pure class act. This is the face of an honest guy, who has worked hard, played hard, and earned what he's got.
Chip was signing at about 3 or 4 different booths. Yup, high demand
http://www.motortrend.com/features/consumer/1012_bill_goldberg_tv_host_former_wrestler_celebrity_drive/index.html if you aren't familiar with why Bill Goldberg is famous in the automotive world
and two vets of the automotive world, George Barris and Linda Vaughn
You're not the Fonz, Corky. Wednesday, June 23, 2010
A recreation of the Munster's coach was brought to the LA Roadster show by George Barris (they say it is original.. it isn't)
I'm going on record as saying it's not the original Munster's Coach, why? Well Jack Roush wasn't making intakes and air filter tops in the 1960's, and this recreation has one.
More importantly, the photos of the original show that it had a squeeze horn on the drivers side a piullar, and no side mirrors. Also, the head lights had more decorative ornamentation on the tops ... see for yourself: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/munsters-dragula-car.html plus the spiders in the window corners are missing. So what is original about this recreation ?
Most obvious is the wrong shifter handle, the original had a ball at the end of a long curved handle, it ended between the driver and passenger about chest high, looked really long and off proportion 
More importantly, the photos of the original show that it had a squeeze horn on the drivers side a piullar, and no side mirrors. Also, the head lights had more decorative ornamentation on the tops ... see for yourself: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/03/munsters-dragula-car.html plus the spiders in the window corners are missing. So what is original about this recreation ?
Most obvious is the wrong shifter handle, the original had a ball at the end of a long curved handle, it ended between the driver and passenger about chest high, looked really long and off proportion 
Sunday, June 20, 2010
1966 kustom built by Barris, the Tastee Big "T" found in the parking lot at the LA Roadster show!
Above: Bubble gum card showing the original, and it was brought back to the Barris shop in the early 70's and they made a few changes. They built a new body, dropped the front end, took off 2 of the fake blowers and put on a windshield http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4460174
Bangshift did a short story on it when it came up on Ebay in March of 2010 http://www.bangshift.com/blog/eBay-Find-The-Barris-Tastee-Freez-T.html
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