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 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.

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 ...

You may not have heard of the 1969 Chevrolet Corvette ‘Barrister’ before but one example is heading to a Mecum Auctions event running from March 16-19. The Corvette Barrister was the ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Barris, the great king of custom cars, has died. Barris was 89 years old. Yesterday, Barris' son Brett posted on Facebook "Sorry to have to post that my father has moved to the bigger ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.