History Here’s some neat history from the “museum of beautiful men”.

Check out these “Show entry Forms” the Roth one was filled out by Ed in 1958 for his first car “The Jewel” he signed it “The Crazy Painter”

the next one is “Tommy Ivo in 1958

 

This is the guy who last had possession of the James Dean car and this is the check that he wrote for the rental from the Florida auto show. Leroy Gonzales is the guy who had it before it disappeared.

 

I don’t know why it’s double posting

 

If it is like other catalogs I've seen, the catalog fulfillment house would make a cover to your specs and wrap it around a generic catalog. You would send it to your retailers in hopes that it would encourage orders. There would be an order blank/point list included that indicated how many units they had to buy to get any particular item. The fulfillment house would drop ship whatever your retailer selected. The XK150 dates it to circa 1958-62. Given the relatively small size of Barris' product list and the niche nature of his product line, I doubt the promotion was a success.

 

'fixed the double posts and enlarged the thumbnails

some great history here
the Ivo entry form is priceless

 

This Dutch? Say yes!

 

Yes there’s a Few more pictures of him in the stuff I uploaded.

 

Thanks, that's the best explanation I've heard so far, makes a lot of sense. I don't believe it was much of a success either or more people would have heard of it.

Mick

 

The historical pic's are AWESOME!!! Those Weld's are works of art, though!

 

Awesome Germ, glad you got through the party days as I did, no doubt many others didnt in your life as in mine. Never thought modertation would work for me but it has and hopefully continues to do so for you.

Do you know who this is? I thought it was Lucky Burton when I 1st saw it.

 

Really cool stuff.

 

Looks like Lyle Lake to me.
He had a killer 2 tone blue chopped Buick

 

^^^^ shirt name tag

 

The old (now apartments) Compton drive in….You have some great items Germ…..

 

Here’s some welding work and a few projects I built from scratch! I been doing some spiral staircases which are pretty hard to make work.

 

A few I think I missed

 

I’m gonna take a box of stuff with me on the road. I will dig into it and post some more photos related to the history.
I don’t have any info on the traditional aspect of 32 ford commercial shells.

 

That is Sam Barris.

 

Fuck
That’s a killer load of a goodies. Thanks for sharing .

 

This need's a come back. And the weld's will have the hater's in a tizzy. Good work, JL.

 

Your posts are never boring. This one is solid gold. Thanks for the dose of history.

 

There’s a eerie similarity there for sure. I almost thought it was me

 

WOW!!!!! Goes to show you how much the Barris family thought to preserve their history with memorabilia they collected over the years. Who keeps all those stubs and letters? Glad you did.

 

Havent logged in here in quite awhile and this is the first thread that popped up?
Talk about a dIsApPoInTmEnT. No nudes?
The ol lady wants a spiral staircase when we build a new house....and the smoke is FIRE....so when its time....Ill send an uber. Bring Pans.❤

-The older I get....the less I grow up.