Old Style Chopped 41 Ford Coupe

[jaymcminn]

Amazing '41. Subtle and beautiful. Not a line out of place!

[jaymcminn]

And the difference between Sam and George is this: Sam was able to create a great design, stand back, and LEAVE IT ALONE. George simply couldn't do that- the more headlights and fins and crap he could stick on a car the better. These days he's pretty much just a caricature of himself, just as his cars are getting ever sillier. (I mean, a kustom Prius? Really?)

[jondutch46]

You guys are all absolutely right. Sam wuz the body man... George wuz the promoter... still is a promoter. Why else would anybody buy his stuff without his self-promotion about being the "King of the Kustomizers"!

[Bud Ellis " Kustoms"]

jondutch46 said:

You guys are all absolutely right. Sam wuz the body man... George wuz the promoter... still is a promoter. Why else would anybody buy his stuff without his self-promotion about being the "King of the Kustomizers"!

I agree that Sam was the body man and George was the promoter But George was also a great photographer that was his hobbie He took so many pictures of his cars and everyone elses cars at the time It is because of him we have alot of the referance to look at to day some of the cars are long lost and a few of them show up now and then But its the picters that keep the memories alive and we owe alot of that the to George Barris
Bud Ellis kustoms

[Steve H.]

mamaprez said:

Sam was the REAL cutomizer in the family. Hard to believe Sam has been gone for 40 years. He passed away in 1967.

And his designs are still emulated today!

George is a hack! (except for the Batmobile, and he had a lot of help on that... )

[greaser]

great colors,great built,perfectly!!!!!

[crusty]

That is one smooth paintjob. Real nice!