Showing posts with label Munsters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Munsters. Show all posts
Friday, October 31, 2025
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
The Munsters (only in production for 2 years) had a LOT of fans of all ages, what a fun show. Damn shame that some couldn't respect her car, what assholes
George Barris equipped De Carlo's Jaguar with spider web hubcaps, a gargoyle hood ornament and a glossy black sunroof.
"She was a wonderful lady and a car buff. She loved the show so much that she incorporated it into her life, her own car," Barris
It was purchased in 2015, and might get restored to Munster condition, but in the years between, all the Munster stuff was removed
Monday, April 03, 2023
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Friday, May 14, 2021
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Friday, January 24, 2020
There was a movie called "Out of Sight" back in 1966... they did some publicity for it at the Riverside 1966 Motor Trend 500, and brought the Barris ZZR and Munster Dragula. By the way, this is another Norm Grabowski movie, and a year after he was on the Munsters - so, it all ties together.
the "customized weirdo" was a 2nd fiberglass body for the Munsters Coach, called the ZZR for the goofy beach and spy movie
and it's followed in the above video by the Munsters Drag U La
The ZZR Out of Sight show car included in the rare retouched pictures had about twenty-one weapons. Some say fire came out of all fenders,and others say bullets. It had tar and feathers,and oil slicks,the bed has and arsenal of weapons,rocket launchers, machine guns,hand grenades, and other weapons.The right passenger side's upper wind- shield frame had a flower pot with sleeping powder,if you got to close to the flower pot. The ZZR was made of from a extra Munster Koach body of fiberglass.
The top was cut off, then after the first doors, then cut after the second doors. Next the rear of the body was shoved forward to mesh to the front,and the front doors. By removing front doors, and the smaller third doors, they could mesh them together as one reinforced by plywood to the back of the doors. This then gave a longer slender look with the new custom body. The frame was square tubing. The front axle was tubular axle on hot rod tires and Radir Star Mags with right Radir Knock- offs.
The body was channeled over the frame, and tilted down and then bolted into place. A tall fiberglass scoop was made over the cowl area. The top was made of steel, which wrapped around the back like a Model T but had two port holes on both sides of the top, with chrome rings, to seal the port windows.
The flat top was squared and was yellow with pom poms. The windshield was like the Munster Koach, but had another type of windshield angled at diagonal, to fit the top securely.
The engines were two 1966 Buick Riveria 425 CID bored out to 440 CID. Each engine had one four barrel carburetor, but the front engine has a Cadillac air cleaner, and is higher with it's four injector type scoop then the rear one.
This has two radiators. The engines are mounted tandem style.
Barris employee Les Thompson had engineered, designed this marvel,which does actually work. It you move the gear shift forward, the second engine will engage. The rear fenders are lavender from the Munster Koach. Flames come out of the rear fenders.The two long front tear drop fenders do have barrels that shoot bullets if the caps are popped off. They incorporate spare tire holders with lavender straps to hold the tire holders in place that are supported by pontoons.
The ZZR tire holders are covered with gold Naugahyde tuck and roll. The top side is also covered the same way along with the upholstery for the gold bucket seats. When the driver turns on the car, the seat moves forward. Then the side arms snap into place. Special graphics were applied to the doors with House of Kolor Gold used the paint the car.
The car has custom headers for each engine.Then the headers were collected into a cylinder type pipe, which looks like a CO2 capsule, to move exhaust to the rear and cut the noise to the engines.
The ZZR also had side hood doors with custom headlight shells for the French headlights which turned vertical to fit between the front fenders, that served nicely for the two radiators which the custom brass grill snugly fit onto.
The rear mags were Tri-Rib Radir Mags with Radir Right Knockoffs. The rear tires wear 15 inch Dirt Track Mickey Thompson tires. The engines were painted red.
This car had a Ford Econoline Van steering column, two metal coolant overflow tanks to keep the Buick engines cool, and Mercury rectangular gas gauges. The rear end was a Oldsmobile to the Buick 2 spd automatic transmission. The hood ornaments were like two sets of branches on the custom brass grill.
According to http://themonkeemobiles1966.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-famous-turnpike-hauler-was-built-by.html it was Dick Dean who built these and more at at Barris Kustoms. George Barris main body man was Dick Dean, who did the scroll work on both Munster Koach#1 and built the car. He had helped the Barris crew, and 1984 built Munster Koach#2. He built 4 Dragulas. Only the first was used in film.
I had forgotten I had posted about it before
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/10/barris-zzr-show-car-from-spy-movie-out.html
http://thezzrkustomkarshowcar.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-famous-out-of-sight-1966-movie-car.html
https://www.filmposters.com/pd/OUT-OF-SIGHT-Movie-Poster-1966/17544
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Herman got help from Lily with the chopper engine!
Ha! Well, it turns out it's photoshopped, but, I still dig it!
here's the original, and it sure makes me believe that this image is just begging for some cool carbs, intakes, blowers, hemi heads, etc to be photoshopped in
from those wonderfull goofballs at Stiffspeed
https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1575187005961243/
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
I went to look up a car collector, and instead, learned he was a tax cheat, and New York nailed him for a quarter million dollars in repayment and fines
John Sbrigato, the owner of Brighton Collision, and he has a car collection that includes the Munster Coach and Monkee Mobile GTO, and he's made one or two Batmobiles, admitted to underreporting $1.6 million dollars in taxable sales between December 2010 and February 2015, prosecutors said.
Sbrigato, who lives in New Jersey, pleaded guilty in Kings County Supreme Court and was ordered to pay $176,000 for the sales tax he stole along with $83,000 in interest and penalties to the Department of Taxation and Finance. He is expected to be placed on felony probation for three years when he is sentenced in September, according to the attorney general’s press release.
He's not the only one that was busted among collision shops in New York, it seems the state Attorney General was tipped off to several not paying the right amount of taxes, https://collisionweek.com/tag/sales-tax/
The Munster Koach was brought to the 2016 labor day Dead Man's Curve annual hot rod party in Mahwah New Jersey, held at the Sheraton. It was begun by the owner of Radir wheels for the Dead Man's Curve Car Club.
http://bklyner.com/auto-shop-owner-pleads-guilty-to-176000-tax-fraud-sheepshead-bay/
Is it New Jersey?
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2017/03/former-new-jersey-attorney-general.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/06/ford-dumped-toxic-sludge-in-ringwood.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/03/cops-in-news-today-1-shot-unarmed.html
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/08/us-marshalls-seized-car-collection-and.html
it looks like I have more articles on crooks in New Jersey than any other thing about New Jersey
http://www.monkeeslivealmanac.com/blog/monkeemobile-makes-appearance-at-newark-new-jersey-show
http://www.hotrod.com/articles/funnies-altereds-gassers-and-even-a-munster-koach-turn-out-for-the-2015-dead-mans-curve-wild-hot-rod-weekend/
if the name Sbrigato sounds familiar, it might be from reading about Joe Sbrigato who won the 1964 New York Hot Rod and Custom Show and got his hot rod into the Beach Boys on stage concert at the Ed Sullivan tv show.
Update Apr 2023: I got this in email today:
Monday, December 26, 2016
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Thursday, May 07, 2015
New images with Dragula and the Munsters Coach were posted on Stiff Speed today
Looks like the Sonny and Cher Mustangs on either side of this bottom picture
Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/?fref=nf
Monday, April 06, 2015
Dragula went to Viva Las Vegas
Wow, I don't remember seeing Dragula ANYWHERE ever.
Found on http://bangshift.com/general-news/event-coverage/viva-las-vegas-2015-from-hot-rods-to-drag-caskets-weve-got-you-covered-at-this-show/
I just found out why, This was built in 2008, by a guy who either buys or builds tv and movie cars, Jay Ohrberg http://www.jayohrberg.com/Drag-u-la.html
http://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/Articles/2015/04/10/Viva-Las-Vegas?utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_campaign=Hagerty%20Weekly%20News%204-15-2015
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Some cool drag racing machines, and other cool stuff at the 66 NHRA nationals
The Tameless Tiger
Stone Woods and Cookie, the black car
The gasser passer and on the hauler truck, it says something under that, "worlds wurst wave?"
Don Prudhomme and the B&M Torkmaster
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