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In 2018 this design
crossed the Heritage Auction block. The Mustang GX was one of the George Barris Design under his nickname SKEET*. At least this is suggested by todays AI search.  |
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The Mustang GX was created as a movie car idea in October
15th, 1966. This is of special interest, since the Thunder Charger was
already designed on Sept. 23, 1966. George Barris had been aproached by The American International Pictures company to create one or maybe several custom cars for the movie Thunder Alley, to be filmed soon. The car that was later chosen however was the Thunder Charger that Dodge provided free of charge to Barris for the planned movie. We can only speculate that Ford gave the same promise, but the production team found Georges design of the Charger more spectacular and more appealing for the movie. Or Ford joined late. The GX features the red, white,blue colors of the AIP movie production company, which later ended up on the Charger as well, but way more dominant.  The tricolor decorated a special rear wing that was "flowing" with the body lines.   As of now we do not have any indication or proof
that the Mustang was worked on in George Barris garage, so we would like to invite
you if you have any hidden Barris Kustom City listings or garage pictures where
the car might have been modelled together with the Charger for a
presentation. BTW - A very similar HOT Wheels custom scale model was put on the market lately, which is called Ravenger (not a Mustang), but of course the designer would probably not see that link. Still the muscle car era influenced many of the very special custom cars back then and today Interesting on the Mustang GX design are also the upper sidescoops, the rear Thunderbird style lights and the forward pointing front fascia and grille. A very dynamic styling feature - which might have also been on McHose desk for the 67 Shelby modifications, but those also also into other Barris designs. |
 The movie was classified ADULT ENTERTAINMENT actually. If you watch it, you may understand, why. At that time it was probably more a mirror of the car and girls scene happening then. The Charger actually survived and is well documented in Barris KUSTOM CITY books. Bob Sifferd is a well-known scale model expert and
brought up the link to the movie Thunder Allex to our attention in 2025, so we could finally
find out more about the GX origin. |
  Picture source Heritage Auctions (modified for educational purposes under the Fair use clause) |
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