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Starting from the beginning at El Mirage to the present day, Famous Southern California Hot Rods highlights many famous cars in Southern California, the hotbed of the hot rod culture!

Included in this 60 minute sitcomshow documentary are cars built and driven by hot rodders like Doane Spencer, Bill Niekamp, Walker Morrison, Tommy Ivo, Norm Grabowski, Ed Iskenderian, Dick Flint, Bob McGee, Neal East, Vic Edelbrock, Pete Chapouris, Jim Jacobs, The Burbank Choppers, Tom McMullen, Jimmy Shine and many others!

Also included are interviews with Tommy Ivo, Neal East, Bruce Meyer, Junior Conway, Don Dillard, Verne Hammond and George Harris along with vintage photographs and film footage!

With cars like the Chevy in High School Confidential and the Ala Kart in Hot Rod Gang to the Hirohata Merc in Running Wild and the ‘56 Ford in Hot Car Girl, it’s easy to see why Hollywood wanted George Barris!

In the 1960’s George was busy creating cars for TV like the Munster Koach and Drag-u-la for The Munsters, the The Beverly Hillbillies‘ truck, the Toronado for Mannix and of course the Batmobile for the TV show Batman which George says “became undoubtedly the most famous car ever built!”

Along the way, George developed friendships with the stars of these shows and movies like Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Steve McQueen, James Dean, Bobby Darin and many others.

George was also busy building cars for famous recording artists like Paul Revere and the Raiders, Sonny and Cher, The Beach Boys and of course Elvis Presley.

Join George as he takes you on a journey of his time in Hollywood during the 50’s and 60’s and how he built these star cars for Hollywood.

Also included are interviews with Adam West and Butch Patrick explaining how they worked with George and the famous cars he created.

Includes rare, never seen before, film footage from the Barris vault and many never seen before pictures taken by George himself!! Plus bonus features!

Follow George’s start in the 40’s in Northern California to Southern California where he teamed up with brother Sam Barris to become King of the Kustomizers.

Join George as he explains how the Barris Brothers pioneered kustomizing in the 50’s and how many of the famous kustoms with a “K” were created.

Included are kustoms like the Hirohata Merc, Sam Barris’ ’49 Merc, the Ala Kart, The Kopper Kart, the Nick Matranga Merc, the Fred Rowe Merc, The Blue Danube, the El Capitola, the Aztec, the Emperor and many more!

Also includes historic film footage and pictures of many of these famous kustoms along with interviews with Nick Matranga, Junior Conway, Jack Stewart, Bill Hines & Larry Watson.

This exciting 60 minute DVD is a collection of color and black and white never seen before 8mm and 16mm films from 1950 to 1972 of NASCAR stock car racing, NHRA drag racing, USRRC and other racing.

Daytona Beach FL 1950: Before there was a track there was a beach! Check out this 16mm footage taken on the beach at Daytona featuring Hudsons, Lincolns, Mercurys and many more, as they battle it out on the sand!

Langhorne Speedway PA 1959: This classic race from Langhorne features Nelson Stacey and Mike Klapak and lots of great 50’s stock cars on this oval dirt track from 6/14/59.

Indy 500 1962: This classic race won by Rodger Ward features some great footage from the stands directly across from the pits.

1960’s Circle Track Racing: This film features some great old 30’s and 40’s coupes racing on an oval dirt track.

Demolition Derby 1963: This exciting footage contains lots of classic cars being destroyed as each car tries to avoid being hit!

1960’s Drag Racing: This film features a “run what ya brung day” at the drags with Vettes, hot rods, early muscle cars, motorcycles and tons of other 50’s and 60’s cars draggin’ it out!

Watkins Glen NY 1966 USRRC: This rare footage features George Wintersteen’s Grand Sport Corvette along with Shelbys, Jaguars, Sprites, home built racers and hundreds of open wheeled racers.

Irwindale Speedway CA, 1968: Featured in this film is great drag racing footage of the famous “Little Red Wagon” along with gassers, bikes, funny cars and dragsters.

Mason-Dixon 500 Dover Downs, DE 1972: This film features Richard Petty and Bobby Allison in this famous Nascar race from 6/4/72. Great footage of Petty signing autographs and lots of pit stop footage.