There's only one problem: George Barris didn't build the Monkeemobile. Dean Jeffries built the Monkeemobile, back in 1966. Jeffries was given two Pontiac GTO convertibles to use for the project ...

If you don't know the legendary George Barris by name, you know his cars ... There is also a 2002 GTO which he made into a two passenger roadster, a 2001 Jaguar XK8 convertible, a Toyota Prius ...

Hollywood’s ‘King of the Kustomizers’ George Barris has passed away ... The popsters’ mutated Pontiac GTO was created by designer Dean Jeffries, although Barris went on to buy and ...

The show "Pimp My Ride" was a popular source of custom vehicles, but people who wanted true masterpieces on wheels went to the likes of George Barris. Who was George Barris, you ask? Essentially ...

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 ...

On February 25, 2013, during the 8th season of "American Pickers," an episode called "California Kustom" aired in which Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz got a chance to meet George Barris, better known ...

on her Barris Kustom cars, as told to A.J. Baime. My father, George Barris, was known as the “King of the Kustomizers.” He started out in the 1950s, and was blessed to have all these ideas ...