The horrific 67X

"Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer" (dash-doorhandle-and-bondo) 11/10/2020 at 20:31 • Filed to: None

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Image: BARF!

Commissioned by Esso for Canada’s centennial celebrations, vomited into existence by one Mr. George B arris. Three apparently still exist. Some people like it, their feeling are dirty and wrong. (olds toronado under all that, interior is cool, I’ll grant it that much)

Image: BARF!

pip bip - choose Corrour > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 20:42

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Let it rust away 

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > pip bip - choose Corrour 11/10/2020 at 20:43

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But It’s Canada’s. ...(dash throws up)

ranwhenparked > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 20:46

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I like the interior, but the exterior is definately from the “different from how it left the factory is always better” school of car customization, which is most certainly not true.

sony1492 > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 20:48

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Send it off a cliff for science 

shop-teacher > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 20:51

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I’m with you. The interior is kinda cool, but the rest ... woof!

Not at all surprised it was done by Barris.  I really can’t understand why he’s held in such regard. 

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > ranwhenparked 11/10/2020 at 20:52

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Not to speak ill of the dead, but Barris was a hack, and he didn’t design the batmobile, he just bolted bat-crap to it.

ranwhenparked > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 20:54

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I believe he also had a tendency to take credit for a lot of shit he didn’t do.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > ranwhenparked 11/10/2020 at 20:58

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Yeah like Dean Jeffries Monkee M obile, Which I believe he was selling replicas of and claiming as his design. Just to be clear the Batmobile KICKS SO MUCH ASS, but he mostly added toggle switches to it.  “turbines to speed old chum”

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > shop-teacher 11/10/2020 at 20:59

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Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > ranwhenparked 11/10/2020 at 21:01

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Those wheel arches with speed holes are su pposed to be bullhorns (TORO-nado)

shop-teacher > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 21:01

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Exactly!

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > ranwhenparked 11/10/2020 at 21:04

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If the design is good,  all you need to do is remove a few detroity trinkets is my school of custom.

onlytwowheels > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 21:06

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I wonder how man y Toronado got hacked by Barris.

70X:

https://www.autoblog.com/photos/1967-oldsmobile-barris-70-x-toronado/

Mannix Roadster:

https://www.wheels.ca/news/barris-built-mannix-roadster-tv-toronado-for-sale/

ranwhenparked > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 21:10

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Ugh, it might have been less offensive if he had just bolted brass horns on to the Toronado’s stock fenders.

Chariotoflove > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 21:10

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Sectional furniture in a coupe?  Neat. 

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 21:11

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Here’s something else done by George Barrister. I found it when looking for what he did to the Fast and Furious Eclipse, which he owned for a time.

It’s very possible that the claims that he designed it are false but it fits his M.O. if tacking crap all over a car

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/10/2020 at 21:16

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That’s formerly a C-5 vette? Whether or not you like corvettes, 99.9% of custom vettes are not an improvement

Not a Barris, but not a triumph of design either. 

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/10/2020 at 21:42

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Someone was playing Burnout when they designed that. 

ranwhenparked > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 22:10

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It was done by a guy who used to work for Barris, though , so it might be fair to say there’s some influence.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 22:17

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Nope 3000GT 

shop-teacher > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 22:52

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Are those Malibu headlight buckets????

shop-teacher > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/10/2020 at 22:52

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What the hell even was that????

PyramidHat > Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer 11/10/2020 at 22:55

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Corvette Summer?

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > shop-teacher 11/10/2020 at 23:18

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A 3000gt

I just realized those aren’t even real R34 taillights. 

shop-teacher > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/10/2020 at 23:48

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Yipes!

Nope, those a truck/trailer lights I think.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > PyramidHat 11/11/2020 at 10:53

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that’s the one. 

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > shop-teacher 11/11/2020 at 10:54

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I don’t think so but maybe?