Barris Kustoms built two identical 1947 Chevy customs for the 1958 Movie High School Confidential Seen here in front of the Barris shop. The two identical customs. Barris only had a short time to create these two movie cars, but that did not prefent the Barris team to perform a great looking chop with the rear side windows filled in. The work was a bit rough, which was just fine since that would not apear in the movie. The car on the left was already painted and the one on the right had its body work just finished and was ready for paint. I always liked the lines of this customized Chevy... think some nice white walls and Sombrero's.... The grille was interesting... but it was clearly done on a very tight deadline.... the stock grille was removed and opening was not rounded or reshaped just left as it was.... [/IMG] Two cars where needed since one of them was going to be destroyed in a car crach in one of the movies racing scenes. The car was suposed to flip over, but since it was a custom and so low to the ground it was impossible to flip. Eventually they used a crane to drop the car from.... that car was eventually scapped.... but... the other one surfived... Anthony White (00MACK) just send me a few photos of this surfiving Barris Custom High School Confidential Movie Custom as it looks today.... Thanks for sharing these Anthony... A lot of thinking and hard work must have gone into creating this pleasing flow of the heavy choped top...
I took the pics at a show in Fair Lawn N.J..I had no idea the car was going to be there and this is the only time I know of it being out ever!I was striping a BOSS HOG wjen I spotted it.I thought I was having heat stroke.
You know the concept of Eminent Domain? Where a city or state can seize a significant building to preserve it? In the interest of saving history from developers who would ruin it? The red paint and awful striping is a great argument for that concept to be applied to significant cars. People are stupid.
The funny thing is that the striping was probably done by Ed Roth when the car was at Bruckers "Cars of the Stars " Museum.
Glenn "The Cat" Patrick from Ohio, always loved the lines of the Barris built Chevies.... only never cared for how they where finished. So he decided to built his own version... the way he always thought Barris should have built it... And here is another one that was inspired....
a guy I know from ebay used to own that car before it had pinstripes on the windows. he had a picture of it in his ebay store logo. I think he's a HAMBer too.
I liked Roth better when he was an asshole at his shop in Maywood. The kinder, gentler Roth has had some lapses in taste. Just one reporters opinion.
i remember seeing that car along time ago, i wonder if it was the same show? At the time i thought it was a clone or something. was it at a high school or something like that?
Glenn "The Cat " patrick is like family to mr and hes sellin that car! The real one from the movie has been in Jersey since long before EBAY existed.
Its cool to see the old stuff thats still around. The pinstriping on the windshield is a bit out there,to me anyway. I am curiouse about what happened the paint on the nose under the hood. But its still rollin' and thats whats alot more important! Right?
thank goodness this one exists, as whats happened to the original .... well..... 3 letters come to mind.....P.O.S. Rick, keep them Customs coming.
this car is a local colorado springs car owned by a guy named shane. i see it driving around a lot during the summer months. it's currently a more red/pink shade of primer.
The Glenn Patrick coupe is for sale in one of the latest Auto Roundup magazines.I just saw it in there the other day!Good looking car.
Another sighting, the place that many my have seen the cars, is a couple of small pics in an R&C article on cars in the movies, probably around 1962... some other interesting stuff was in the same article.
Hell yeah, WTF is with the striping on the windscreen? UGH! Someone needs to put that back into the 'Sam Barris' built colours.
I've always felt that filling the quarter windows on a Chevy made the top look a little out of proportion, but it really works on this car. Very sweet! Thanks Rikster!
Something in the back of my mind keeps saying I saw an article on these 2 way back and 1 of them was used in Rebel Without a Cause and the clone was built to roll. Anybody got better recall than me?
I hoped this would come up- this one was at Paso. Got me excited as the first early customs I was ever exposed to were these pair of Chevy's in the '70s "Cars of the Stars" book- after that my hunger for more kustom history has never ceased. I thought this one looked a lot like the red survivor car.
Great looking cars for sure. The Barris boys not only knew how to chop, but how not to chop. Great proportion and restraint and the lines flow so well. This one needs help though. I don't dig the 2 tier grill treatment at all. The current color scheme makes me want to eat Mexican food. I don't care if Jesus himself striped the car, it looks wack. Amazing how color and wheels can turn a legendary custom into a car we'd talk about under our breath at a show.
Check this out!! They wreck the stunt car about half way through this clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40r8YtQnznI&mode=related&search=
That settles it. I have been looking for ideas for chopping my 46 coupe. I wondered what a three window version would look like without the carson top. I dig the originals from barris in 58. Gonna do it that way and someday maybe finish it enough for paint.
Anybody else spot Norm Grabowski in the first YouTube sequence? Normie Poo has been at it for a looooooooog time. Frank
Its not ruined.For a period correct resto all you need is 50 dollars worth of trim and emblems ,J.C.Whitney smoothie caps and a pair of headlight rings topped off with a trip to Maaco.
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