Customs The Kustomrama Survivor - Old Barris Kustom Found in Sweden

Its fantastic when history like this is saved and falls into the right hands.Its a beautiful car that is simple yet nails everything perfect.A testament to less is more.

 

WOW

Cool story and cool car.
I love the Texas size trunk, sometimes comes in handy as a pickup.

 

It was mine 10 years ago, I had it four years. I have only this pic of painting I did. There was about 4 people sitting inside when this was taken. I have no digital pics as unloaded, and no scanner either at this moment.

 

Does that receipt say $14.00 to shave the handles? crazy...

awesome car, good score.

 

Man thats sooooo dammm cool!!! congrats on your ride..

 

Congrats of the buy. Remember..........216/235.......... split manifold/duals..........pure heaven................end of story.

Frank

 

awsome bro, looking forward to swing by and take a look

 

Thanks all for the great feedback! This weekend I went for a treasure hunt in the trunk of the car, and this is some of what I found there:







I got 6 Strombergs with the car, 3 of them were stored in their original boxes:



These 3 were chromed.... ain't she pretty?



Here is the installograph for the carbs:



I also found a brand new distributor cap assembly in the original box:



Hey, what's this at the bottom of the box?



Too cool, it was the original cash invoice from Wynn Bros. Auto Parts dated 9/26-1960! I can only guess that Tom bought this after the engine supposedly blew up in 1959, maybe he had planned to get it up and running again?



This was still in the door.... last oil service 2-3-1955?

 

too cool

 

are you serious that the stuff in the trunk came via surprise after you got the car? simply amazing story, find and car overall.

wow, im finding some good stories on the hamb today...

-scott noteboom
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Hehe, no I knew about most of the parts. But there were also stuffed in a lot of other not so cool parts in between, so this weekend I had the time to go thoroughly through it

 

That would be a great find here in the US,but really fantastic for it to show up in a foriegn country in such great shape. Its just great and miracle that it landed in the hands of some one who will perserve it. Use and enjoy!! Ditto the sombrero caps. Thanks for sharing

 

Maybe check out the new BARRIS DVD by MAD FABRICATORS it may have some pics or something on there..

 

I love it. It's like automotive archaeology!

 

It doesnt get much nicer than that.and that work order is super cool.

 

Yeah, and Indiana Jones is my name

 

Installograph? Cool car and awesome find for sure.

 

hehe, my life has never been the same after I discovered the installograph

 

You have got to be kidding. That is awesome.

 

Learned a few new tricks, eh?

 

Man , this was a FUN read . Excellent find
Keep us posted on the Engine .
Everything found in Trunk needs to go under Hood
Can`t be all that hard to find a 216 in Norway .

Klaz

 

Nah, just a new word

 

Thanks Klaz.
Most of the things in the trunk is going back on it. For now I'm just putting the 216 offy intake and fenton headers on the 235. I will also put the mallory distributor and coil back on. Maybe next winter I will put a 216 back in it, should be no stress finding one since we live in the country where most car people worship chevy 350's.... hehe

 

Wow Nice !Great Story. Where in Sweden do you found it ?

 

It was advertised on blocket.se...the funny thing is that I have never been on blocket before. This was my first visit, and BANG, it took me about 5 minutes to find and buy a car..... so now I don't dare to go back there

The car was located in Sunne, a three hours drive from oslo

 

HAHa thats fun.Good Luck with the car and i look foorward to see it some day.
Its better if you not take more then 2" inch block and seperate the leaf and
change the form little on every leaf,its mutch work but its worth the time.

 

Damn how could i miss this thread! Congratulations Sondre, what a cool find!!!

And hey, I remember seeing this car in the ebay auction, where it was listed in April. I got the link emailed from a friend, but had no money then. Hope to see it this summer in person. Wow this is so cool, the old receipt is awesome!

 

Yeah I studied a thread about that yesterday so I will may do that instead.

hehe, is that your roadster in the avtar? A picture I took of it last year ended up in Django's HAMB calendar

 

Thanks Marc, puh I'm glad you didn't have the money
Yeah for sure, would have loved to check out your chevy too.

You know if I had bigger balls I would have had Kjetil to chop the roof on it like on Dan Landons' Club Coupe and frenched the headlights. That would have meade the car so sweeet. But hey, I don't want the ghost of Sam Barris to haunt me

 

Yes its my roadster.Very nice pictures and i found the calender in RJ spotlight side
in april so i have buy some off them
Thanks.