hobbybobby Posted October 12, 2014 Posted October 12, 2014 The Monkees Mobile The idea for this build, originally came from the old master, Ed "NEWT" Newton. When Universal Chose the wild Tom Daniel-designed, Barris-sponsored and by Dick Dean`s gang-built The Munster Koach instead, Big Daddy Roth learned, that "low Budget and mild" was apparently not the way to score a TV car contract... So, although they didn`t know it at the time, Tom and Newt were apparently competing against each other for that Munster Coach contract, trough Barris and Roth... Later, when submitting a design for the upcomming Monkees TV series, he let Newt go all out on the concept. But alas... ... that Time they went fot Jeffries`less-expensive "GTO Touring"... So, Jeffries`relatively austere Monkeemobile concept was approved for The Monkees Television Show, he beat out this home run attempt by Newt and BDR... And, uh, oh, yes, much later, California Show Cars by Jay Ohrberg, built something similar, based on Newt's design, and called it GeeTar... ... which, in my view, doubled the size while halving the Finesse... This is my Version, perhaps not quite as Newt thought it... ... but I have tried to implement it, as far as it went, and with a couple of my Solutions... No idea what I have installed everything here, because it was one of my many, long-term Projects... ... but finally it's done, hope, you like it.
MsDano85gt Posted October 12, 2014 Posted October 12, 2014 wowo waaayyyy better than that Funky Gto based thing...... looks like a guitar from above and below! well done! great custom work!!
GLMFAA1 Posted October 12, 2014 Posted October 12, 2014 Great design, not only tune up the engine but the whole hot rod greg
Custom Hearse Posted October 12, 2014 Posted October 12, 2014 Love the way you take your builds to the extreme! Just AWESOME!!!
ShredHippie Posted October 12, 2014 Posted October 12, 2014 (edited) Awesome! I love the headlight tuners and how the strings run front to back. Not sure about the barrel scoop though.. Reminds me a bit of Jay Ohrberg's Git-Tar Car. There needs to be more guitar cars! Edited October 12, 2014 by ShredHippie
Harry P. Posted October 12, 2014 Posted October 12, 2014 Clever! Now if you had made the scoop look like an electric guitar pickup, that would have been even more clever!
kpnuts Posted October 12, 2014 Posted October 12, 2014 outstanding just outstanding amazing work I just bulit the tv version and thought it was radical but this is something else. I take my hat off to you sir.
Maxicoop Posted October 12, 2014 Posted October 12, 2014 That is just totally sick !!!!!!! What a beautiful build !!!!! very unique !!!!
unclescott58 Posted October 12, 2014 Posted October 12, 2014 I like Dean Jefferies' Monkeemobile much better. That being said, I do like and admire the work you put into this model. Scott
Harry P. Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 Way better than Barris! I dig it! Barris didn't do the Monkeemobile. He took credit for it (like a bunch of other cars he didn't do). Dean Jeffries did the Monkeemobile.
ShredHippie Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 I had to do some research on this car since I had never heard about it.. and found these pics of Ed Newton's drawings for this car. I understand the barrel scoop now and like how you combined the two designs with a few new things. Excellent!
unclescott58 Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 Here's one Barris did do that fits the theme. The Barris Voxmobile. Scott
jbwelda Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 more fun than a barrel of monkees. if you had done that model back then for Ed Roth, it would have been picked for sure! jb
Snake45 Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 I can't say I'm completely on board with the whole concept, but there's no denying that your imagination and your craftsmanship are first-rate.
mr moto Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 Phenomenal work!!! I'd love to see an "On the Workbench" type thread on this one. Is there any chance of finding out more about how it was built?
bobthehobbyguy Posted October 13, 2014 Posted October 13, 2014 Really nice. I love seeing concept drawings turned into reality. Too bad this wasn't the design used.
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