The "Mongrel T," built in 1966 by George Barris from a 1926ish Model T touring & Ford FE motor for the Elvis movie Easy Come Easy Go, but also doubled as TV's Jokermobile #DavesCarIDServicehttps://twitter.com/BatLabels/status/1195330371405172737 …
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Unlike the empty nihilism of other 20th Century art movements, show car artists explored important universal human themes; sex, poop, death, war, nationalism, using the unique and challenging medium of bitchin' blown Hemis
Not all 60s show cars were immobile chromed conversation pieces; my pal Dave also restored the Ice Truck (1967), designed by Ed Newton and built by Dan Woods, featuring an all aluminum blown Buick 215 out of Mickey Thompson dragster and IRS/IFS. Scary fast and corners too.pic.twitter.com/eja4R3G4XQ
Forget the Munster Koach, Dragula, and the Monkeemobile, the finest weirdo 60s Barris car was the Raiders Coach, built in '66 for Paul Revere & the Raiders. 2 injected 389 Pontiac motors on a drive unit pulling a stage coach via 5th wheel gooseneck.pic.twitter.com/FZKU5yaAJF
This is what rock & roll style was like before the insipid Summer of Love folk rock hippies came along the next year and ruined everything
call me a Philistine, but I'll take the James Bond-Batman-beach movie-monster mania-garage rock-go go boots-show car 60s over the LSD-filthy Haight Asbury hippie-STD-folky jam band-paisley painted VW bus 60s. ANY DAY.
Paul Revere & the Raiders, "SS 396," made as a promotional 45 single in 1965 for Chevy dealers. Flip side was "Corvair Baby." Better than anything ever made by the Grateful Deadhttps://youtu.be/sg0tP54XjTU
By 1969 Pontiac signed the Raiders away from Chevrolet to extol the virtues of the GTO Judge over the Chevelle 396. I can imagine this triggered some fierce battles among GM's various marketing departmentshttps://youtu.be/Ea4OgV7wGHs
True story: Paul Revere & the Raiders campaigned for The Penguin on Batmanhttps://twitter.com/DanGrondy/status/1198998216190115841 …
Which I believe brings this entire thread to a perfect full circle denouementhttps://youtu.be/SrmAs4rkRi8
Wow, my refurbished Hyster suddenly seems inadequate.
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