Six Cobra-Ford V8-Engined Custom car George Barris has become universally renowned as being perhaps the outstanding designer, builder and personality within the Californian custom car world.

Here we are delighted to be able to offer for sale – at no reserve – one of the most stupendous of this remarkable man’s ‘Kustom’ creations – the six-engined ‘Snakepit’.

This extreme example of the Californian customisers’ craft and ingenuity was created in the early 1970s, and took four years to complete.

The gospel according to its promoters is that it was built to attack international speed records “at speeds that stagger the imagination”.

It was hand-built by a team led by George Barris and assisted by Harry Bradley, Joe Bailon and Jay Ohrberg.

They were employed in this project by California Show Cars.

Serious aerodynamic considerations were applied to the vehicle’s all-steel streamlined body while its external skin panels were completely hand-crafted to a painstaking design.

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