It made the Batmobile and Tom Wolfe's Kandy-Kolored Streamline Baby. But with its North Hollywood studio on the block, Barris Kustom Industries, the soul of Southern California car culture, may be ...

Three of the weirdest show cars ever conceived came together in 1983 in this Universal Studios snapshot: Martian Spyder (left, rear), powered by a Sherman tank engine; Sex Machine (right, rear), a ...

Barris Kustom Industries has been a mainstay in the Hollywood automotive scene for years, responsible for crafting some of the most iconic vehicles in film history, like the Munsters Koach and the ...

The owner’s dad and brother, then young students, sent the car to Barris’s shop in California to get the full “kustom” treatment. This unique Olds is now listed on Hemmings Auctions and ...

George Barris poses with the Munster Koach at George Barris' Halloween Bash Car Show on October 28, 2000 in Pasadena, CA. Over the next 70 years he would design literally hundreds of cars for ...

Legendary car customizer George Barris is scheduled to unveil his latest project – a kustomized 2010 Chevrolet Camaro 2SS RS – by driving the car straight to the dealer himself.

According to Barris Kustom’s website, Geroge and his team built this creepy sedan for the 1960s TV show, The Munsters, in just 21 days. The 18 ft (5.5 m) hot rod was created by fusing three Ford ...

George Barris, the creator of the Batmobile and many other memorable vehicles for TV and movies — but before that a legend in the Los Angeles car culture — died today, his son Brett announced on ...

Barris, head of Barris Kustom Industries in North Hollywood, Calif., is working with Nick Gavriles, a Detroit area car customizer and president of Barris Kustom Industries Detroit.

Originally published in the April 1999 issue of Hot Rod magazine: Los Angeles custom builders, led by George Barris, created a series of prop cars for the movie and TV industry.