{"id":90599,"date":"2014-02-15T09:26:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T16:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90599"},"modified":"2014-02-15T09:26:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T16:26:04","slug":"movie-cars-wherein-george-barris-takes-credit-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=90599","title":{"rendered":"Movie Cars &#8211; Wherein George Barris Takes Credit for Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When the original Batmobile rolled across the auction block at last year\u2019s\u00a0 Barrett-Jackson auction, there was a familiar, gold bespectacled face on the\u00a0 stage to help sell the iconic ride. It was George Barris, who took over\u00a0 construction of the original car from Dean Jeffries in 1965. With all that cash,\u00a0 and with all the legitimate credits to his name \u2013 the Voxmobile, the Batmobile,\u00a0 the Beverly Hillbillies\u2019 jalopy and hundreds of other cars \u2013 what would possess\u00a0 a guy to tarnish his own reputation by reinventing history, taking credit for\u00a0 things he never built?\u00a0 There\u2019s some pathological need to be involved with every\u00a0 automotive creation in the last 50 years that defies explanation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Black Beauty<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dean Jeffries designed and built the Black Beauty for the TV show <i>The Green Hornet.<\/i> According to Karl Kirchner, who owns one of the two Black Beauty cars built for the show and runs\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/autos.yahoo.com\/news\/master-fabricator-wherein-george-barris-takes-credit-everything-150734830.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the original Batmobile rolled across the auction block at last year\u2019s\u00a0 Barrett-Jackson auction, there was a familiar, gold bespectacled face on the\u00a0 stage to help sell the iconic ride. It was George Barris, who took over\u00a0 construction of the original car from Dean Jeffries in 1965. With all that cash,\u00a0 and with all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90600,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90599\/revisions\/90600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}