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One of my favorite TV shows from the 60's was "The Monkees" and this was their custom car built by George Barris which used a Pontiac GTO as its foundation. 

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One of George Barris' few out there customs I'd never seen or heard of.

"George was approached by VOX with an idea to build them a wild customized two-placed roadster which would be completely functional as a car and as a VOX amplifier. This vehicle was to be used for promotion purposes but could not lose the identity of the VOX product. This two-fold problem was taken over and solved by Barris.

The vehicle was to resemble a VOX guitar in silhouette and would create its own high-fidelity audio through the use of self-contained VOX sound equipment. Besides being a beautiful $30,000 show-stopping roadster, the Voxmobile is a completely functional unit in every respect. Its primary purpose is to project this new concept exposing the VOX guitar. This giant amplifier, the Voxmobile, can facilitate no less than 32 compatible VOX guitars with input jacks located along the top of the side body panel and has a VOX dual manual Continental organ mounted in the rear deck area. Power is transformed from the primary source of supply, a 12 volt auto-lite automotive battery, to 110 AC through two 450 watt inverters. The wild guitar sounds are powered by three powerful VOX Beatle amplifiers, complete with reverb, treble/bass boost and mid-range boost. There is an array of speakers hidden in the framework. In all, there are 2 main drive speakers mounted atop the intake manifold, five 12" speakers, one 18" bass speaker and four tweeters. As though this wouldn't suffice a Muntz stereo cartridge tape deck was installed. It houses 6 speakers and modulators and will be used to produce music when you happen not to have a band handy.

In order that the Voxmobile might be utilized to the fullest, special chrome steps were mounted astride the body and along the bottom of the rear deck compartment. These steps make it possible for three guitarists and an organist to belt out appropriate music while the car is being driven in a parade. It sure beats a marching band!"

Yeah, I’d never heard of that one, either.  Very cool.

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1966 Citröen DS Henri Chapron Serie 2

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One of my favorite TV shows from the 60's was "The Monkees" and this was their custom car built by George Barris which used a Pontiac GTO as its foundation. 

We talked about George Barris back on page 15.  You don’t remember?

I believe this is a George Barris creation—the 1967 Pontiac GTO Monkeemobile.  Love the pipes sticking out of the front wheel wells.

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Classic 1957 first Generation Corvette. Happy 4th of July!

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I’ve never heard of this one before

1956 Citröen Coccinelle C10

On a Citroen kick

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I’ve never heard of this one before

1956 Citröen Coccinelle C10

On a Citroen kick

The French word Coccinelle is Cochinita in Spanish and in English it means Lady Bug. 

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I’ve never heard of this one before

1956 Citröen Coccinelle C10

On a Citroen kick

The French word Coccinelle is Cochinita in Spanish and in English it means Lady Bug. 

I was wondering about that.  Makes perfect sense.  Thanks!

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I’ve never heard of this one before

1956 Citröen Coccinelle C10

On a Citroen kick

You sure can't complain about lack of sunlight when you're in that!

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1940 Lincoln Zephyr

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1940 Lincoln Zephyr

Very nice looking car.  Huge booty.   

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1958 Plymouth Belvedere (with 90’s Chevy Caprice cowering behind it)

Christine was based on the Fury, but close enough.

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!962 Oldsmobile Rocket 88. You can tell that the styling was toned down from the cars of the 1950's. The reason I'm showing this is because I just returned from a trip in Canada where I visited my Stepsister and I saw this model at a gas station being driven by a 40-year-old man and I asked him about it, and he said he had inherited from his grandfather who had recently passed away and he had kept it pristine. It was all black and amazingly it had no rust. Anyways, it had a 394 cubic inch engine and the car had nothing but imperial standards because in those days Canada did not use metric then. It was very nice. 

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!962 Oldsmobile Rocket 88. You can tell that the styling was toned down from the cars of the 1950's. The reason I'm showing this is because I just returned from a trip in Canada where I visited my Stepsister and I saw this model at a gas station being driven by a 40-year-old man and I asked him about it, and he said he had inherited from his grandfather who had recently passed away and he had kept it pristine. It was all black and amazingly it had no rust. Anyways, it had a 394 cubic inch engine and the car had nothing but imperial standards because in those days Canada did not use metric then. It was very nice. 

Nor familiar with that year’s Olds.  Great front end.  Love the way the fenders kind of wrap around the headlights and grille, but remain separate.  Very cool.

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!962 Oldsmobile Rocket 88. You can tell that the styling was toned down from the cars of the 1950's. The reason I'm showing this is because I just returned from a trip in Canada where I visited my Stepsister and I saw this model at a gas station being driven by a 40-year-old man and I asked him about it, and he said he had inherited from his grandfather who had recently passed away and he had kept it pristine. It was all black and amazingly it had no rust. Anyways, it had a 394 cubic inch engine and the car had nothing but imperial standards because in those days Canada did not use metric then. It was very nice. 

Nor familiar with that year’s Olds.  Great front end.  Love the way the fenders kind of wrap around the headlights and grille, but remain separate.  Very cool.

Today's cars are mostly SUVs around here and they are boring. Whether made in USA, Japan or Europe, they look the same from afar. I remember how in the 60's and 70's when I was young, you could easily tell them apart.