George Barris Tried to Buy My Fast & Furious Supra(UPDATE)

This is the story of how George Barris tried to buy my Supra. This is the UPDATED video to include a new development in the story.

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[TheSharter]

Those Barris rumors are true. He tried claiming the BTTF Delorean in his shop was screen used and that he was the original designer. It was such a bad copy and all of us in the Delorean community would cringe when someone would bring up that "Fact"

[thejimmycaththeatre]

Have you looked up how George barris in the early 2000’s got his hands on a screen used Back to the future 3 delorean? He was asked to prepare it for display at the Peterson. It was criminal what he did to that car.
He sprayed the windows black, so he didn’t have to work on the inside. He would also attach Christmas lights to the back of the car.
Thank god it would later receive a proper restoration.
But he had nothing to do with the original builds of the time machine.
That honour goes to Kevin Pike and his team at filmtrix.

[rfgate]

@12:29 you flashed up the Mad Max Pursuit Special. Barrow never built that one, even if he claims he did. The movie's art director Jon Dowding designed the Interceptor and commissioned Melbourne-based car customizers Graf-X International to modify the Ford GT Falcon.

[reeceracing]

Great video. I’m not surprised by his behaviour though.

Btw, 12:29 the mad max interceptor wasn’t made by barris.

[katerinazhu]

He wasn't involved in the Back to the Future franchise. His only involvement was the Petersen museum hiring him prepare a BTTF screen used car for display. He put a bunch of junk (including red duct tape), drilled nonsensical brackets into the body, removed Mr Fusion, and spray painted black the entire interior/windows. The restorers described Barris's work as "atrocities".

[Pigpen]

never meet your heroes lol. was at a car show in LA and Barris had a few cars in the show, one of which was a terminator cobra which i had at the time. it was highly modified Barris style. it was such a hack job. visible drywall screws and pieces of wood. absolutely destroyed an amazing car. also was standing next to Barris at the sema show a couple years before he passed. he was seriously trying to hit on one of the 25 year old booth models. it was quite creepy.

[pinstripingbybear.]

@6:05 Honestly I had more run ins with George Barris than I would have liked to,
See im a pinstriper by trade, and have done the car show game for a long time. Take my cars or trucks to pre 63 car shows and Barris was at almost every one of them as a Guest of honor and a person to bring more people in tgat dont really go to car shows, and if he wasn't the center of attention god he got pissed. Back in 2008 we were at a show called West Coast cruising nationals and Bareis was in the main hall with all the big namers in the Kustom seen, well i was paid to do a pinstriping job in the booth next to his and everything was going fine until he noticed i had a small crowd around me well i was pinstriping this nice little RATROD and that SOB came over and said i had to leave because i was taking away his fans that could be paying for pictures with him and buying his crappy over priced merch....
I told him I would be done in a hr and would be gone but he didn't want that so he had his people go get the main guys that were putting the show on and tell them i spilled paint on some of his sh!t but i had just gotten done pinstriping and lettering the promoters 1950 merc so he knew it was BS but had to ask me to wait until "KING BARRIS" took a lunch to finish the job, so i did and the owner and builder of the RATROD was so pleased with my work he tipped an extra 150 on top of paying for the work i just did. But Barris walks back in and sees the work i did and told the owner that the pinstriping made the RATROD look even worse than it did before as a RATROD. Than had the balls to ask me if we could get together and i could do some side work for him even knowing he had his own in house pinstriper, i told him nicely i would love to but said i don't step on the toes of other artists and felt like it would give me a bad name in the industry that made him even more unhappy with me but Honestly I could give a sh!t less if i ever worked him ever. The Barris head was way to big for his fat little girl body... @pinstripingbybear on Instagram!

[zeldadahedgehog]

as the old saying goes: never meet your heroes

[Litassa]

9:52 when you buy Fast and Furious RX-7 from Wish 😂😂😂

[MrWmaginn]

This has probably already been pointed out but Barris had nothing to do with the Interceptor from Mad Max. That car was entirely Australian built.

[stevewagner]

Hi Craig good video. Barris took credit for a lot of things he wasn’t involved with. The two prominent examples are the Monkeemobile and Black Beauty which were built by Dean Jeffries. So he was trying on the same stunt with you. I never understood why it was so difficult for older hot rodders to embrace tuners. I got into the tuner scene while developing products for TRD back int the late 90s to mid 2000s. I loved the tuners because the reminded me of Camaro, Chevelles and Cudas I cut my teeth on. Cars are cars and it should all be one big brotherhood of gear heads.

[bigmikeyz]

George Barris did a lot of shady things that’s for sure. He never built the monkees coach but he sure took credit for it. He took credit for several builds that he had nothing to do with.

[dandeangelo]

Although legendary, he also claimed he built a lot of cars he didn't. Your video proves that. Including claiming Herbie the Love Bug. There's a video floating around somewhere of it.

[youtubeuseronalot]

"Super villain censor monkey leaders" wow 5 word sentence just elevated this guy in my book 😎😎

[BSAElectronics]

Let's face it, when Barris tired to get into imports his talent and legend hit a curb and burst into flames. What he did to those imports was vandalism, Barris was just a Ricer.

Thanks for this video Craig, I didn't know Barris was such a Charlatan.

[highoctanememe]

the cars near the end of the vid weren't designed by barris, but he had them on display at a time. interceptor, ecto-1, some of the others

[pinstripingbybear.]

@6:05 i don't know if you know this but Barris really didn't do all the awesome work done on the early movie and tv show cars, it was his brother SAM Is the man who Designed and built most of the early TV and movie cars. George was the face of the two because Sam didn't want the fam he just like to make kool sh!t and George wanted to be the tb star.. he did just that but he was a joke and you can tell when Sam stopped working with him the cars and trucks got really shitty

[MajorOutage]

He's not just trying to make it sound like they were screen-used, he's heavily implying he was the one who built them for the movie in the first place. Holy shit.

Also, as I've already seen others point out, both the Black Beauty and Monkeemobile were built by Dean Jeffries, NOT Barris. But of course Barris would never correct anyone for saying he did.

[cesariojpn]

Huh, updated with a weird auction. Thats dedication.

[ImInLoveWithBulla]

I remember Indian Larry talking about how he loved exposed wires and plumbing, saying how it makes the bike more visceral and mechanical. Like an actual machine, as opposed to a piece of candy. I liken it to the appeal of a great steam engine, where you can see all the pistons and valves and gubbins working away. Barris seems to have gravely misconstrued that statement. All of the wires and tubes on Larry’s choppers actually had a purpose.