George Barris ... the Batmobile were customized Ford Galaxies. Barris was born in Chicago and raised in California. He started fiddling with cars as a teenager, deciding right away he would ...

Who was George Barris, you ask? Essentially, he was to car customization what Andy Serkis is to motion capture. Barris and his company, Barris Kustom Industries, crafted numerous iconic cars for ...

Barris also raced his cars at speedways but gave it up when it took too much time from his customizing work. After Sam Barris left the business in the 1950s, George and his wife, Shirley ...

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 ...

The legendary photographer told PEOPLE he didn't believe the actress committed suicide or died of an overdose, saying she told him, 'These are my champagne days…' Photojournalist George Barris ...

With the passing of George ... You see Barris, like them, had pretty much the whole pie. Huh? By "whole pie" I mean he had more than the obvious talent to create custom cars from pedestrian ...

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 ...

Nobody knew it better that George Barris and Ed Roth. The "King of the Kustomizers" and "Big Daddy" had no problem getting publicity for their groundbreaking custom cars, but they cranked up the ...

If he could go back to the future, maybe famed movie car icon George Barris wouldn’t have had that gadget-filled DeLorean parked in front of his North Hollywood customizing shop during his big ...

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 ...