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4eva4banger
09-07-2003, 06:38 PM
I was talking to a guy about the Ala Kart on the weekend. We both agreed that it was pretty cool. What do you think?
36-3window
09-07-2003, 07:43 PM
i think it is the neatest rod that Barris ever built
4eva4banger
09-07-2003, 07:44 PM
Wonder how Brizio is doing with the restoration?
DrJ
09-07-2003, 07:56 PM
When I first saw pictures of it in the magazines I thought WOW!
But didn't know how to "catagorize" it...luckily I wasn't set in catagories then so I just accepted it as it was, a show car. I didn't have enough historical vocabulary to wonder if it was supposed to be a Street Rod or a Hot ROD or a Custom or a Kustom. It didn't matter because it was so different from anything that DID fit a category that it was int's own realm.
I also think it's the closest Barris ever came to making a "Roth" car. ANd I don't mean in a copying Roth kind of way but in the same kind of cartoon car way.
It sort of had a track nose,but wasn't a track roadster.
It had quad headlights and same taillights as the Outlaw. yet in know way resembled the Outlaw.
It had more the feel of the Golden Sahara than a typical Roadster pick up of the day, and criticizingly looking at it historically after all the simlar attempts at making a "show rod" is unfair. because at the time it WAS the Vanguard of Rod style.
Greezy
09-07-2003, 07:56 PM
Its just the sweetest rpu ever built. Personally my favorite Barris car.
4eva4banger
09-07-2003, 07:59 PM
The early Barris cars were cool and the Ala Kart was the best car Barris built before spoiling them. I think after the Ala Kart Barris cars went down hill. Apparently Tom Otis is building the Ala Tub
lowsquire
09-07-2003, 08:15 PM
RPU??did it have a lift off top?would love to see a pic with it 'open'
4eva4banger
09-08-2003, 09:35 AM
Roof on or off the Ala Kart still looks cool!
Spooky
09-08-2003, 10:11 AM
Loved it! When I first saw it when I was in grade school(early 70's) I used to ask my Dad where all of the cool Hot
Rods had dissapeared to.
Sailor
09-08-2003, 10:29 AM
I dig it, -allways did. Lots of neat details, like the suspension and lots of other little things.

Heres a pic with the top off.
Sailor
09-08-2003, 10:33 AM
Same photosession, -top off.