History Barris Kustom City Lynwood Slide Show With New Fire Pixs

I put together this slide show for the Fire Party and I thought you guys would get a kick out of it!!

A few weeks ago I was going through some images at the shop when I came across a sheet of film negs.. I noticed one of the shots has a burnt up car in it a closer look and it was the Jag on a trailer... So I took the number on the sheet and went back to the files and looked at the few sheets before and a few after and sure enough there they were.. A bunch of never published images of that horrible day. It felt pretty neat to find these..

The first few minutes are fire shots the rest are just random shots at the lynwood shop...

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wow ! some of that is hard to look at, great slide show thanks for putting that together.

 

Wow! Thanks Evel! Check out the wild front end on the fended '32 roadster, crazy!

 

I'm ***uming part of the reason for all of the pictures of the fire damage was for insurance purposes? It must have been totally heartbreaking for George to shoot those.

Also, is that a wrecked Ferrari Barchetta at 4:29? Ouch!

Thanks for sharing these.

 

Whatever happened to the chopped and sectioned Merc?

 

George did not have fire insurance at the time.. All the client cars were lost.. I asked him
what did his customers think.. he said overall everyone was upset but they knew it wasn't
any fault of of George.. One customer did take legal action and tried to sue George but the judge ruled the case dismissed due to act of god.

 

That is a great shot of Sam reading the paper in the shop with George next to him....thanks Piero.

 

I was wondering the same... Rik?

 

That's from a Magazine interview I think it was Rod and Custom.. They did a shop visit.

 

your a lucky S.O.B Evel getting to go through all of George's slide.

 

Great vid,both george and sam are true craftsmen.

 

Thanks for putting this together. I was 14 when this happened, my brother and I went by the shop a few days after the fire, it was unbelievable to see all the Kustoms that were lost! A sad day for sure.

 

Wasn`t that the twins Merc. Thought it left before being finished.

 

Unreal! I'v never seen pictures only heard about the fire.

 

oh my god ,being a lover of f100,s that is hard to look at

 

Evel, thanks for the historical pictures....we're pretty fortunate on this site!!
Thanks Ryan and crew also

 

Man, a ton of cool photos.... Thanks, Piero!



Malcolm

 

Wow thanks Piero!! Some really cool pics of Sam at work.

 

Excellent photos, although a little hard to look at the great cars that were lost. What was the cause of the fire?

 

I remember reading in a book that after they did the section the car disappeared. Would have been nice to see it done. It makes you wonder if it is sitting in someones garage waiting to be finished someday.

 

Thats the last I heard about it as well.... mystery car! WOuld love to see it again.. or perhaps some more photos of it with perhaps some more done on it. Very nice and wild custom for sure.

 

Great slide show... with some amazing new/old photos... thanks Piero!

 

Bump For the people that should be working but are on the HAMB.. You know who you are!!!

 

Thats me, will view tonight. Thanks. See you in January. Slim

 

has anybody posted pics from the show yet?

 

Not that I saw on here I did see some on Face Book... I'll see if I can get him to post.

 

I gurantee ya'all, intodays litigious state of KALifornicate ........... there wouldda been lottsa law suits !!!!!!!!!! Uh heavy on da suits too............. scrubba

 

do any pictures exist of the burned chopped merc with the quad headlights in it's finished condition? would love to see how that car looked. thanks for posting the pics, jerseymike

 

Very Cool Photos.... Thanks for sharing...

 

Fantastic piece of history, a real treasure trove! Love Sam's desk (guess it's his desk). Can you imagine, no insurance!!!

But that was the times. Nobody had health insurance in those days, are you kidding? You had to really be in a bad way to see a doctor, and when you needed one, a lot of them still came to your house!! And you just paid the (extremely reasonable) bill.

Great stuff.