George Barris Dead At 89 – Career Marked With Notable Vehicles – First Batmobile

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George Barris, the creator of the first Batmobile, the Munster Koach, KITT, and hundreds of other custom cars over the course of a career than spanned the back half of the twentieth century and into the 21st, has died at the age of 89 years. Never  bashful, never afraid to self-promote, and on occasion never […]

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[studemax]

We will never see his like again.
Some folks might say that is good.
I say - no one did more to popularize and educate about kustoms, and how to build them.
RIP, GEORGE!

[Barry Donovan]

I would wonder what lived on in oem manufacture. A little thing, or big..not enough credit either way.

rip.

edit:
I know what lived on.
when my truck had the window gutters for the xcab...

"it looked like the batmobile"

it is an analogy forever, for any machine. Spanning lifetimes.
Now that is indeed famous.