Sony then hired two producers, Peter Guber and Jon Peters, to serve as co-heads of production when Sony also acquired Guber-Peters Entertainment ( the former game show production company, Barris Industries ) for $ 200 million on September 29, 1989.

Barris hired Bill Cushenberry to do the metal modifications to the car.

The next day, Sony also announced that it reached an agreement with Guber-Peters Entertainment Company, Inc. ( NASDAQ: GPEC ; formerly Barris Industries, Inc .) to acquire the company for $ 200 million when Sony hired Peter Guber and Jon Peters to head CPE.

Just as AMT had hired George Barris and Darryl Starbird, Revell hired " Big Daddy " Ed Roth in about 1962 as their new stylist ( Funding Universe webpage ).

The previous fall, Chuck Barris hired Edwards to host the weekly revival of the 1950s game show Treasure Hunt, entitled The New Treasure Hunt.

* Season 2 – 1968 Dodge Dart GTS 340 convertible " kustomized " by George Barris with functional hood scoops, Lucas Flamethrower driving lights, blacked-out grille, racing-style gas filler cap, molded-in rear spoiler, blacked out taillight panel and custom taillight lenses.

* George Barris ( auto customizer ), designer of custom made cars

George Barris ( born January 2, 1925 ) is a designer of custom cars.

This became the first Barris Brothers custom car.

Model kit of the classic Barris custom 1929 Ford Model A ( 1927 – 1931 ) | Model A Car body style | roadster pickup Ala Kart.

Between 2002 and 2006, Barris also designed two custom Cadillac hearses for episodes of the cable television series Monster Garage.

Artists such as Von Dutch ( Kenny Howard ), custom car builders such as Ed " Big Daddy " Roth and Dean Jeffries, hot rod and lowrider customizers such as the Barris Brothers ( Sam and George Barris ), along with numerous tattoo artists, automobile painters, and movies and television shows such as American Graffiti, Happy Days, The Munsters ( The Munster Koach, Drag-u-la ) and The Monkees ( The Monkeemobile ) have all helped to form what is known as Kustom Kulture.

In order to fulfill that goal, he became a student of legendary hot-rodders ( custom car builders ) George Barris, John Buttera and Darryl Starbird.

He is one of a group of designers and artists including Ed Roth, George Barris, Norm Grabowski, Dean Jeffries, Bill Cushenberry and the great pinstripe artist Kenny Howard ( nicknamed Von Dutch ), who presided over one of the most productive and creative periods of American custom car and hot rod design.

The car was designed by George Barris ( famous for other Hollywood custom cars such as the Batmobile, and many others ) and was deliberately designed in bad taste as a ridiculous station wagon, with absurdly over-the-top styling.

Conversion was done by custom car shops across the country such as George Barris, E & G Classics and Auto Gard, Inc. as well as many smaller shops.

In all other Season 1 episodes Mannix drove a 1967 Oldsmobile Toronado roadster " customized " by George Barris, builder of TV's Batmobile from the 1960s Batman ABC series, since the producers wanted a convertible and Oldsmobile never produced an open-topped Toronado.

In the early 1960s, Barris, along with other well-known customizers ( Gene Winfield, Dean Jeffries and the Alexander Brothers ) reworked production cars for Ford's " Custom Car Caravan " and " Lincoln / Mercury's Caravan of Stars ".

Irving and Jack discovered a number of great songwriters, among them Sammy Fain, Harry Barris, Gene Austin, Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy McHugh, and Dorothy Fields.

One unused but operational concept car that languished for years in the North Hollywood, California shop of car customizer George Barris, Ford Motor Company's " Lincoln Futura " from 1954, received a new lease on life as the Batmobile in the Batman series that debuted in 1966 on the ABC Television Network.

This was a George Barris customised 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car from the American television series Batman and the Corgi model featured rocket launchers, pulsating red plastic ' flames ' from the engine exhaust, an operational die-cast metal chain cutting blade in the nose of the car and models of ' Batman ' and the boy-wonder ' Robin ' sitting in the seats.

The crime fighting car ' Black Beauty ' ( 268 )-a George Barris customised 1965 Chrysler Imperial Crown sedan, included an operational satellite launcher inside the boot and a rocket fired from behind the grill, and was featured in the American television series The Green Hornet.

The ' Monkeemobile ' ( 277 ) issued in December was a Dean Jeffries 1966 Pontiac GTO, again customised by George Barris, taken from the American television series The Monkees which featured miniature models of the band sitting in the car.

In 2010, George Barris created a woodie version of the Smart Fortwo, an aftermarket firm offered a simulated wood kit for the same car, and GM displayed a prototype woodie version of the forthcoming Chevrolet Spark for the 2010 Paris Motor Show.

The car was originally red but Mannix Executive Producer, Bruce Geller, wanted it changed to a British Racing Green, which Barris did.

Even though a ’ 69 Dart was built by Barris to replicate this car in the show's 1969 season, the ’ 68 Dart was regularly seen during the ’ 69 season.

In 1966 the car was modified by George Barris into the Batmobile, for the 1966 TV series Batman.

As the car was never titled and was therefore uninsurable, it was parked behind Barris ' shop where it sat idle for several years and was allowed to deteriorate.

In 1966 Barris was requested to design a theme car for the Batman television series.

Barris then contracted stylist Dean Jeffries to build a car for the show.

Jeffries worked on the design and initial fabrication for the Batmobile, using a 1959 Cadillac, but when the studio wanted the car faster than he could deliver, he turned it back to George Barris.

With the short notice, Barris thought the Futura might work well, and using Jeffries initial car, decided that its unusual winged shape would be an ideal starting point for the Batmobile.

Barris later acquired a fourth replica, a metal car built on a 1958 Thunderbird.

After its conversion to the Batmobile, Barris continued to retain ownership of the car, leasing it to the TV studio for filming.

After production of the TV series ended, Barris continued to own the car, which was displayed in Barris ' own museum in California.

His car shows further publicized the Barris style, as did the car customizing how-to articles George wrote and Petersen published.

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.

According to Barris, some of his first film work consisted of making soft aluminum fenders for a Ford police car that crashes into the rear of a Mercedes Benz convertible driven by Cary Grant's character in North by Northwest.

Other forerunners of modern reality television were the 1970s productions of Chuck Barris: The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and The Gong Show, all of which featured participants who were eager to sacrifice some of their privacy and dignity in a televised competition.

Harry Barris, one of Paul Whiteman's " The Rhythm Boys ," along with Bing Crosby, scatted on several songs, including " Mississippi Mud ," which Barris wrote in 1927.

Hollywood Star Cars Museum features Mayberry's Squad Car, The Beverly Hillbillies jalopy, DRAG-U-LA from The Munsters, Batmobile, Camaro from Charlie's Angels, General Lee, and Herbie the Love Bug which were designed by George Barris.

Barris was promoted to the daytime programming division at ABC in Los Angeles and was put in charge of deciding which game shows ABC would air.

Barris created several other short-lived game shows for ABC in the 1960s and for syndication in the 1970s, all of which revolved around a common theme: the game play normally derived its interest ( and oftentimes, humor ) from the excitement, vulnerability, embarrassment, or anger of the contestants or participants in the game.

Barris became a public figure in 1976, when he produced and served as the host of the talent contest spoof The Gong Show, which he packaged in partnership with TV producer Chris Bearde.

Barris ' jokey, bumbling personality ; his accentuated hand-clapping between sentences ( which eventually had the studio audience joining in with him ); and his catchphrases ( he would usually go into commercial break with, " We'll be right back with more er ... STUFF ...", occasionally paired with shifting his head to reveal the ubiquitous sign behind the stage reading simply " STUFF ," and " This is me saying ' bye '" was one of his favorite closing lines ) were the antithesis of the smooth TV host ( such as Gary Owens, who hosted the syndicated version in its first season ).

During the winter of 1980, Barris attempted to rebuild by bringing back another game show that was not an original of his, Camouflage, in which contestants answered questions for the chance to locate a " hidden object " ( such as a toaster ) concealed within a cartoon-type drawing.

:" Dean Jeffries, who had a paint shop next to Barris did the customizing work which consisted of: painting ' 130 ' in black non-permanent paint on the front hood, doors and rear deck lid.

) For years it was almost always aired in tandem with another Barris production, The Newlywed Game, which premiered on ABC the following year.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was based on game show host Chuck Barris ' widely debunked, yet still popular, memoir of the same name, in which he claimed to be a CIA agent, and Kafka incorporated both the life of author Franz Kafka and the surreal aspects of his fiction.

Barris went on to build three fiberglass replicas using the frames and running gear from 1966 Ford Galaxie cars for the show circuit, three of which were covered with a felt-like flocking finish in the 1970s.

In October 1943, Pete Smith assigned Kaaren and Harry Barris the leading roles in an MGM motion picture which was to be called Practical Joker.

This was the first use of the spelling " kustom ," which would become associated with Barris.

Sam decided to leave the business in the 1950s, but George had married and he credited his wife Shirley with major assistance in promoting the company, which eventually became Barris Kustom Industries.

At the beginning of the decade, Barris, who loved extravagant design, had purchased the Lincoln Futura, a concept car of the mid-1950s which had been built by Ghia of Italy.

Instead, Barris decided the Futura was a perfect base on which to create the Batmobile.

In 1966, he received a phone call from Chuck Barris to host a new game show, The Newlywed Game, which premiered on ABC that same year.