Hotrod Road Show

But the car that ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons came in and stared at for an hour and a half is this radical 1941 Ford: chopped seven inches, channeled six inches over the frame, sectioned out of the body another four inches, with a genuine Carson removable top from the 1960s; paint-shot in satin black with flames hand-done in white ice pearl. It was first customized by George Barris, who designed the Batmobile.

Read the rest of the story by Doug Elfman over at the Las Vegas review Journal

It’s “Jaws” on wheels! A satanic car terrorizes a small Southwest town in this awesome 1977 vehicular horror film, “The Car”. Stars James Brolin and R.G. Armstrong.

Mike Garrett over at SpeedHunters.com continues his tour of the Peterson Auto Museum in LA. See the rest of teh great phots he took over at SpeedHunters.

Richard Gazzo in the Lowrider-Desgn blog, gives us little history of Lowriders and how the Barris Brothers influenced what has become one of the most creative areas of car customizing.

George Barris became the early face of lowriders by combining his creativity with his passion for cars and developing one of the first businesses to customize lowriders for sale. George and his brother, Sam, used their expertise in body work to straighten fenders, bolt on accessories, and use paint schemes that were unheard of during that time. Lowrider creations from the Barris brothers flourished into a very lucrative business. George used his business sense to introduce lowriders to Hollywood which resulted in not only the use of lowriders in many well known movies such as High School Confidential, but it also helped him “become the person” to contact when Hollywood stars wanted to transform their personal vehicles into lowriders.

Read the rest of the story at Lowriders-Design.com
Richard Gazzo is a successful writer offering advice on where to buy cheap rims, custom wheels including custom chrome wheels, spinning rims, wire wheels, automobile rims, alloy wheels and more.

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