SURF ROD BY BARRIS - SURF HEARSE

WHITE LIGHTNING / CHASE VERSION

This is the White Lightning Version of the Surf Rod By Barris with;

This George "Batmobile" Barris Antique Undertaker Hearse design, Barris Surf Rod, has a Pearl White Lightning Body (Purple on the Non-White Lightning Version), Black Interior, Orange & White Striped Roof Cover, Lantern lights on Front and Rear Sides, The Wood Grain look on Rear Cab Sides and Silver Chrome Wheel Rims.

A Highly Detailed 1:64th Scale Die-Cast Metal Body & Chassis Replica of a Vintage AMI Model Kit. Includes Bonus Replica Model Kit Collector Box inside the Blister Card Package with the Diecast.

Custom Car & Hot Rod Designer George "Batmobile" Barris created famous designs in miniature (Many Designs used on screen such as the Munster's Koach).

George Barris and his brother Sam (1924–1967) were born in Chicago in the 1920s. The brothers worked at their family owned restaurant and were given a 1925 Buick for their help. The Buick was not in good shape, but they restored it to running condition, and began to experiment with changing its appearance. This became the first Barris Brothers custom car. They sold it at a profit to buy another project vehicle. Before George had graduated from high school, demand for their work was growing, and they had created a club for owners of custom vehicles, called the Kustoms Car Club. This was the first use of the spelling "kustom," which would become associated with Barris. The two built their "kustom" designs for private buyers, and George also built and raced his own cars briefly. These activities brought them to the attention of the movie industry, and they were soon asked to create cars both for personal use by the studio executives and stars and as props for films, their first being used in 1958's High School Confidential. They also made the acquaintance of Robert E. Petersen, founder of Hot Rod and Motor Trend magazines and, much later, of the Petersen Auto Museum. His car shows further publicized the Barris style, as did the car customizing how-to articles George wrote and Petersen published. In 1951, Sam had customized a new Mercury coupe for himself, and a customer who saw it ordered a similar car. This vehicle, known as the Hirohata Merc for its owner, was shown at the 1952 Motorama auto show and was so popular it overshadowed the best work of Detroit's top designers. It also established the early 1950s Mercury as a popular basis for custom car design. In addition, Sam built Ala Kart, a 1929 Ford Model A roadster pickup. After taking two AMBR (America's Most Beautiful Roadster) wins in a row, the car made numerous film and television appearances, usually in the background of diner scenes. Sam decided to leave the business in the 1950s. George Barris credited his wife Shirley with major assistance in promoting the company, which eventually became Barris Kustom Industries. It began to license its designs to model car manufacturers such as Aurora, Revell, MPC, and AMT, which spread the Barris name into every hobby, department, and discount store in the United States and also into the minds of millions of eager model builders.

George "Batmobile" Barris built and supplied cars for the 1958 film High School Confidential, for the "future" scenes in the 1960 film adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, a modified Dodge Charger for Thunder Alley, a Plymouth Barracuda for Fireball 500, the futuristic Supervan for a film of the same name, a gadget-filled Mercury station wagon for The Silencers, and a sinister rework of a Lincoln Continental Mark III for The Car. In the 1960s, the Barris firm became heavily involved in vehicle design for television production. At the beginning of the decade, Barris created a signature vehicle for the Batman television series, Barris decided the Futura was a perfect base on which to create the Batmobile. Between 2002 and 2006, Barris also designed two custom Cadillac hearses for episodes of the cable television series Monster Garage. Barris' company often builds replicas of non-Barris designed vehicles from other TV series, including The Monkees (Monkeemobile), Starsky and Hutch (Ford Torino), Power Rangers (Rad-Bug, Turbo Vehicles, and SPD Cars), and Knight Rider (KITT). Other television cars built by Barris Kustom Industries include the The Munster Koach and casket turned dragster (the Drag-U-La) for The Munsters, an Oldsmobile Toronado turned into a roadster used in the first season of Mannix, a 1921 Oldsmobile touring car turned into a truck for The Beverly Hillbillies, the fictional "1928 Porter" for the NBC comedy My Mother the Car, Updated KITTs for later seasons of Knight Rider and replicas of 1914 Stutz Bearcats for Bearcats!.

Casting No. 516: Card No. 1 From the Johnny Lightning Classic Plastic Model Kit Replica Series Item # 504-01M

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