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MPC GEORGE BARRIS "T" BUGGY 1:25 SCALE MODEL KIT
MPC971 971

A CUSTOM CLASSIC FOR EXPERIENCED MODELERS: MPC’s 1/25 scale George Barris T Buggy is the perfect project for show rod enthusiasts. Add it to your collection today!
LOADED WITH CUSTOM FEATURES: This kit is a 1960’s custom creation by the famous car customizer, George Barris. Three building versions are featured: truck buggy version, landau buggy version, and open buggy version. It sports a Chevy Corvair flat-six engine, antique headlights,taillights and radiator, roll bar, Landau-style half top, bulb horn, Indy front and rear tires, and more! Fully paintable, it features an expanded authentic water-slide decal sheet and is wrapped up nicely in Retro Deluxe™ MPC vintage packaging!
QUICK SPECS: 1/25 Scale, 112 Parts, 5.5 inches long once assembled. Parts molded in yellow and clear with black vinyl tires. Some parts are chrome plated. Plastic model kit paint and cement required. Skill Level 2.

George Barris (born George Salapatas; November 20, 1925 – November 5, 2015) was an American designer and builder of many famous Hollywood custom cars, most notably the Munster Koach. Barris did not style the 1966 Batmobile, although his company built it.

In 1951, Sam had customized a new Mercury coupe for himself, and a customer who saw it ordered a similar car. This vehicle, known as the Hirohata Merc for its owner, was shown at the 1952 General Motors Motorama auto show and was so popular it overshadowed the best work of Detroit's top designers. It also established the early 1950s Mercury as a popular basis for custom car design. In addition, Sam built Ala Kart, a 1929 Ford Model A roadster pickup. After taking two AMBR (America's Most Beautiful Roadster) wins in a row, the car made numerous film and television appearances, usually in the background of diner scenes.[2]

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. 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.

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". The traveling exhibits were designed to appeal to younger car buyers, both current and future.[3]

Barris created Drag-U-La for television.[4][5][6]

Barris also used the body of Pulsator (designed by Nye Frank) on his snowmobile dragster show car Ice Kutter.[7]

Barris is the subject of the title story in writer Tom Wolfe's first collection of essays The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.

Other television cars built by Barris Kustom Industries include the Munster Koach and casket turned dragster (the "Drag-U-La") for The Munsters, an Oldsmobile Toronado turned into a roadster used in the first season of Mannix, a 1921 Oldsmobile touring car turned into a truck for The Beverly Hillbillies, the fictional "1928 Porter" for the NBC comedy My Mother the Car, Updated KITTs for later seasons of Knight Rider[11] and replicas of 1914 Stutz Bearcats for Bearcats!.

Between 2002 and 2006, Barris also designed two custom Cadillac hearses for episodes of the cable television series Monster Garage. Barris' company often builds replicas of non-Barris designed vehicles from other TV series, including The Monkees Monkeemobile, Starsky & Hutch (Ford Torino, Power Rangers (Turbo Vehicles)[17] and Knight Rider KITT. Barris also designed and built the "Wagon Queen Family Truckster", based on a 1979 Ford Country Squire station wagon, for the 1983 film National Lampoon's Vacation.