George Barris, the Batmobile creator whose talent for turning Detroit iron into decked-out automotive fantasies earned him the nickname “King of the Kustomizers,” has died. He was 89.

Customizer and movie-car builder extraordinaire George Barris played muse to these societal ... series of neoclassical drop-tops he christened "Barristers" for this attention-hungry customer ...

George Barris, the legendary custom car builder who created television's original Batmobile and helped define California's car culture with colorfully designed vehicles ranging from the stunningly ...

If you don't know the legendary George Barris by name ... as well as in private collections. Barris does have the Batmobile, KITT, and the Barrister, which was Bo Derek's. It is a Corvette ...

Cut-up photographs of a black Ford F-150 lie scattered across George Barris’ desk, forming a mosaic of fenders, headlamps and rear-quarter panels. Barris’ eyes flicker over each fragment as he ...

While there may have been custom cars without George Barris, they probably wouldn’t have been as cool and they certainly wouldn’t have been as widely known. George Barris, the original King of ...

But George Barris knew, ruled and in many ways defined that culture better than almost anyone else, starting with the first uses of the idiosyncratic letter K. The mecca of custom cars was ...

George Barris was memorialized by family and friends on Saturday, but one of the nicest tributes was the parking lot at Forest Lawn, which was a rolling tribute to the custom art to which Barris ...

George Barris, the Batmobile creator whose talent for turning Detroit iron into decked-out automotive fantasies earned him the nickname “King of the Kustomizers,” has died. He was 89.

George Barris is a very influential man; there probably isn't a person reading this magazine who hasn't been affected by him. Most people think of Barris as just a famous customizer, but what they ...

There was just one man for the job: George Barris. “I saw the script and it said, ‘Bang,’ ‘Pow,’ ‘Boom,’ ” Barris told The Times in 2012. “That’s exactly what I wanted the car ...