At 2020 GNRS I had the great honor to meet this fine Gentleman and was lucky enough to collect an autograph on the extra on purpose unbolted garnish molding of my 29 Todor Sedan Hot Rod to take it back home to Germany. I allways wanted his autograph for my car so badly and he was the very first person I stumbled over on friday morning outside of the Fairplex fairground while still waiting in line for the ticket counter to open. What a great guy, what a legend!
@MyClassicCarTV3 жыл бұрын
A great guy and a legend indeed!
@casedoumasr6562 жыл бұрын
Dennis Gage you are a wonder in your own right .How lucky you are to show us all this super NEAT vehicles. 😇
@michaelmartinez1345 Жыл бұрын
This man is just amazing.. . Since 1947, he's been doing this!!! Holy cow, Those TV show and movie vehicles are really something else... He just keeps going....Talent beyond belief.... He is now (Sept 2022) 95 years young, and he's still active in this.... Just an amazing person who really found his calling in his early years , and stayed with it....
@Solo5010.4 жыл бұрын
This Legend has taught legends that have taught Legends. Mr. Winfield you one of the car gods in my book sir.
@weapondragon3 жыл бұрын
I agree! Movies and real life autos, The man isnt a legend but a GOD in the car world.
@moyadapne9687 жыл бұрын
Gene is 90 years old. Incredible. Looks 65.
@ronspradlin50846 жыл бұрын
moyadapne koo
@joenels43566 жыл бұрын
Must be the restoring property of lead fillers
@zhadom0015 жыл бұрын
wow. i would love to go see them...
@diamondmidnightgardener5 жыл бұрын
I thought your comment was bullshit, but I went and searched him out... as of October 2018 he's 91... well holy fuck.
@UncleBeefRecords5 жыл бұрын
When is this episode from though? Probably not this year
@inkno7017 жыл бұрын
This guy is a living legend and an artist, and has inspired many with his original creations.
@pneumatic007 жыл бұрын
It's impossible to think about the amount of skill, creativity, and the thousands of hours that go into these things all at the same time.
@sonnylatchstring6 жыл бұрын
Are you talking about the ridiculous moustache?
@mikaelgideryd3 жыл бұрын
I did meet Gene in Graz ,Austria 2018, A 40 years old dream come true. An amazing man.
@MrGTO-ze7vb6 жыл бұрын
Gene is the REAL DEAL..!! He built so many custom cars and rods. I met him in 1986 at the Turlock Show. He purchased some used auto parts from me and invited me to see his shop and collection
@fourbyfourblazer6 жыл бұрын
I worked for Gene many years ago when his shop was in Canoga Park. Money was tight. Work was plentiful. We started work early and worked late into the night. He didn't smoke or drink. I wish I could have worked with him longer.
@mrkoldkanuck5 жыл бұрын
met Gene and George Barris at world of wheels Winnipeg!
@fourbyfourblazer5 жыл бұрын
That must have been a real treat.
@fiddlerpin4 жыл бұрын
I met Gene at the Syracuse Nationals 2019. All I can say is wow! He's a living legend and such a nice guy. He even signed my Rat Fink T Shirt!
@Schpoople4 жыл бұрын
You’re so lucky to be able to meet people like this legend
@NavinJohnson_thethird4 жыл бұрын
I worked for Gene when his shop was in Canoga Park. Good boss.
@binyon75 жыл бұрын
Gene is now 92... What a guy! what a life! Happy B'day Gene on the 16th!
@darronvon4 жыл бұрын
20 years ago I had the pleasure of meeting and talking with MR Winfield at the Portland roadster. show. most people of his notoriety would have been a bit arrogant. but not Gene. He was a gentleman and always excited about cars and always open to questions. what a true humble man.
@telequacker-95293 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking "Dudes been chopping these cars since they were new... Legend" and THEN he starts talking about all the movies he's done? Double Legend.
@retiredguy72732 жыл бұрын
What a mind Gene Winfield has, true Renaissance man.
@1ChilledDude6 жыл бұрын
Sci-Fi vehicles like the Star Car from The Last Starfighter and the police spinners from Blade Runner, and hot rods! Is there anything Gene can't do? All that coachwork is incredible!
@billwallis84334 жыл бұрын
I used to hang out at Gene's Custom Shop across the street from Modesto Junior College In the 50s-60s. My mother would ask "Where have you been all day?" He had cars coming and going so fast every visit was seeing something different. What a legend this guy is and will always be.
@normbissonnette88666 жыл бұрын
This guy just keeps moving forward . He truly sets a strong example .
@hoodagooboy59816 жыл бұрын
A few years back I got to share a vendor's table with Gene at a Star Trek Convention in Vegas. He was selling various photos of the Galileo Seven Shuttle Craft and the Reactor. I got to look through his scrap book and talk cars with him all day.
@DANTHETUBEMAN6 жыл бұрын
he is far more then just a hot rodder,, a true craftsman and artist,,
@TheAmazingMrMcFlyy5 жыл бұрын
Man, I used to love watching this show during the weekends on SPEED , what a throwback
@travistassey91263 жыл бұрын
I took a 2 week class at Genes shop around 16 years ago and learned what being a master was all about....
@citibear574 жыл бұрын
Amazing vehicles. Videos like this are what make your channel so popular. Thanks Dennis!
@minimanadam4 жыл бұрын
Wow, he looks n moves great for his age . The love of cars kept him youthful
@jeffcraven73767 жыл бұрын
Can't tell what Gene's saying half the time because of the music. Trust me, music interferes with so many videos during videos on You Tube.
@jamesh13696 жыл бұрын
I'll never understand the logic of putting loud, crappy music in car videos, or videos were someone does a lot of talking. It's very distracting. If I want to hear music, I'll turn on my stereo.
@carmineredd11984 жыл бұрын
scary movies same duh duh duh duh scream
@AirCrash14 жыл бұрын
The only interference is your ignorance. Music conveys emotion 99% of professional media uses it, trust me you are the ignorant 1%
@pcat10004 жыл бұрын
Jeff , I agree, where did this notion come from that you have to play crappy loud music during videos????
@BeenThereOverItNow4 жыл бұрын
@Michael Aldredge-Greenwell Try Rabbits used cars intro... lord I can't be the only one that mutes till he starts talking!
@karlslidingdoorguru17853 жыл бұрын
I worked with my dad when he was building prototype cars for the Blade Runner Movie when i was in hi school. I can remember seeing the Back to the future Delorian in the corner there. It was pretty cool working with all of the Great Customizers of the 60s 70s 80s.
@jrnamida54705 жыл бұрын
Worked for Gene in Modesto, California. Tully road shop, while attending Modesto Junior College...
@sacooper8025 жыл бұрын
this was filmed in 2007 so gene was 80 yrs old in this video, born in 1927, just amazing
@donaldwolpert63565 жыл бұрын
Gene Winfield wrote one of the first documentary books of television production in "The Making of Star Trek" in 1967. I still have my copy from the early 1970s.
@jquest434 жыл бұрын
I had that book too-gene wrote it??? Damm
@olliefoxx71653 жыл бұрын
What a cool guy. He's a true craftsman with a good eye for color and lines. Very innovative.
@tomrobards77534 жыл бұрын
Gene is the absolute car guru ,, it's amazing how young he looks , looks like he's 55 maybe ...
@USCG.Brennan5 жыл бұрын
Gene also built the "Jade Idol" and it belongs to a friend of mine up in Portland Oregon. This same friend (Tim) also owns a George Barris Custom that I used to own.....Ron Seaton's '55 Chevy Hardtop which was customized in 1959.
@StanTheObserver-lo8rx5 жыл бұрын
Gene and Darryl Starbird...owned the 60's. On the cover of HOT ROD, CUSTOM CARS..a jillion times.
@JonBlondell4 жыл бұрын
What a genius! I wasn't familiar with him till now! And a gentleman!
@Hygirl20004 жыл бұрын
good guys rod and custom is one of the best car shows ive been to, glad to see the sticker on the thing
@terrygarvin19802 жыл бұрын
This Guy is unreal!!! What a Life well lived! Wonder what the neighbors think?!? Wish I was one..
@fleetwoodray6 жыл бұрын
My 2 favorites as a kid were Gene Winfield and Ed Roth aka "Rat Fink."
@USCG.Brennan5 жыл бұрын
Don't forget George Barris....
@hotrodray68025 жыл бұрын
the good barris stuff anyway
@USCG.Brennan5 жыл бұрын
@@hotrodray6802 Just like "beauty"...it's in the eyes of the beholder. "Good" to one person is not necessarily good to some others. Barris and the others like him were artists in their own right.
@danconlan644 жыл бұрын
@@USCG.Brennan they got their calling from Harry Westergard the granddaddy of the Lead Sled
@johnmitchelljr Жыл бұрын
Thank you. Flowers in the desert.
@craigmonteforte14784 жыл бұрын
excellent episode Dennis Gene is a total Guru of the car world ! i was hoping you were going to put the old bus in as well
@workingclassperson21244 жыл бұрын
Man oh man I love what this guy creates
@detroitredneckdetroitredne66746 жыл бұрын
I first met Gene Winfield in 2013 he is the salt of the earth it's fitting you found a big chunk of salt in his hot rod God bless new Gene
@PerfectPetProductions4 жыл бұрын
Artist, engineer, kind man, legend!
@vanillagorilla82364 жыл бұрын
When I grow up I wanna be like Gene I'm 53.
@ROCKINWHEELERS2 жыл бұрын
**GENE WINFIELD** = THE MAN | THE LEGEND !!!
@dogbounty63995 жыл бұрын
Its like seeing my old hotwheels full sized.
@JuanFernandez-zv2oz7 жыл бұрын
A legend. Still trick af.
@markfrance99244 жыл бұрын
Full blown documentary is needed for posterity
@jackkelly90225 жыл бұрын
Wow. Part of the special group.
@robcbs15474 жыл бұрын
Gene Winfield, what an innovator!
@rodneysmart97744 жыл бұрын
He's a legend for good reason
@haraldpettersen36494 жыл бұрын
A great car builder and his historic cars
@billgroel44633 жыл бұрын
Great video thank you for sharing
@Kiwionwing3 жыл бұрын
The sleeper car is in a museum near Wellington New Zealand now Southward museum
@wmadamzzz6 жыл бұрын
When I was about 14 years old, a few decades back, my older sister and her family lived in Modesto, CA. Her husband was going to college to be a phys-ed teacher (and cheating on my sister at the same, as I would learn later). He took me after his classes one day to see Gene Winfield’s shop in Modesto, which I think is where he got started. I think the building had a custom Mercury in the front window and he just walked in to the shop area, and started looking at the stuff. Turns out, he hadn’t asked anyone if he could visit with a teenage relative but he did know the brother of a guy in school. We stayed maybe 20 minutes and there really wasn’t lots to see. Winfield wasn’t there and no one seemed to care that we were. I didn’t see much that I remember except for the Mercury and I remember that the next month or so, I saw a new issue of Rod & Custom Magazine at the store and it had that car on the cover. I talked my mom into buying it for me, maybe 25Cents at that time. I’ve always been interested in his work although the stuff in this video is kind of marginally interesting !
@MrGTO-ze7vb6 жыл бұрын
I was at that old shop in Modesto. Was it right off of Rt 99?
@greatdaneacdc5 жыл бұрын
I was waiting for the part on how his cheating had something to do with the Video! ....Maybe next time !
@karvind6 жыл бұрын
Such a Legend!!!!!
@danconlan645 жыл бұрын
3:39 his poor fingers even more busted up than mine Ernie Adams & Gene are legends
@villagelightsmith43754 жыл бұрын
Those old Merc's made such a nice chop!
@Ripplin7 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks for a nice special video!
@paulsharp65595 жыл бұрын
These are great ideals. Nice job.
@SaberToothLawnTigers7 жыл бұрын
Gene is the man!
@maliiiwa2 жыл бұрын
Before cyberpunk there was Gene Winfield
@z06doc862 жыл бұрын
Gene Winfield is absolutely amazing for any age person, but I sure would like to know where his fountain of youth is located.
@davidcordes92834 жыл бұрын
Gene is a national treasure
@ronaldjoseph44254 жыл бұрын
I wish I looked that good at 90!!
@jamessawyer88895 жыл бұрын
If I had the money I would love to have the Reactor because of it's TV history, Batman, Star Trek, and of course Bewitched!! If anything, I'd be repeating some of the script from Bewitched, "better take off your shoes you're high heels will ruin the carpet, I'm not wearing high heels.Larry will flip when he sees this car. It was a gift from my mother-in- law and I had to keep peace in the family!!"
@luisestebanr63113 жыл бұрын
what a practical designer! nice vid!
@raymondj87684 жыл бұрын
Gene is a freakin legend !!!!!!!!
@biggusdickus65486 жыл бұрын
Mr Winfields is an artist for sure, I do not like American stuff but his work is fantastic!
@thoof20015 жыл бұрын
Biggus Dickus should remember, We Americans don't need you around anyhow
@howardnielsen62204 жыл бұрын
Gene will treat you like long friend the first time you meet him
@tertessa7 жыл бұрын
met him at Syracuse very nice guy..
@shanek65826 жыл бұрын
This is so weird, I randomly watched this video last night and when I turned on the tv this morning it was on the Logo channel (from daughter watching last night), the episode of bewitched was on with the car Gene built. I haven't seen bewitched in 25 years.
@MyClassicCarTV6 жыл бұрын
Wow, that's pretty amazing. If it was followed by an episode of "The Twilight Zone", that would just be too weird!
@hoodagooboy59816 жыл бұрын
And if that was followed by the episode of Batman that had the Reactor in it ( the Reactor appeared as the "Catmobile", and it was driven by Eartha Kitt ) that would be mind blowing.
@hwb-zalpach3 жыл бұрын
LEGEND.
@thegun16496 жыл бұрын
All I can say is WOW!
@smilingskull78274 жыл бұрын
Love the reactor!
@guysmalley5 жыл бұрын
1949 dragster, a real pioneer
@ToyKingWonder4 жыл бұрын
Funny, I know guys my age and younger complaining how they are "getting older" and it's harder to work on cars. I work on cars more now than in my 20s and 30s. I haven't slowed down one bit in my 50s and hope to be like Gene. I have not lost one bit of interest in cars or restorations, while some guys my age look like they could be my dad!
@fanghicheck6 жыл бұрын
that 427 sounds AWESOME
@ericlang57916 жыл бұрын
What about two of his ‘60s customs, the Jade Idol and the Solar Scene? Are they still extant?
@stanirelandbig6 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a real designer, superb imagination and process. Far better than boy D, no wonder movie money goes to the best.
@tednugent85014 жыл бұрын
Elmo speed runs are a blast to wake up to man.
@filthbomb4 жыл бұрын
Really nice guy, gave me a tour of the entire shop when I visited him with a friend of his ...these cars you see on this presentation are FAR better looking on the screen than when you see them in person and actually how they are slapped together is damn near criminal..... but hey, he's not foose, boyd, or Richard Rawlings, and he was putting some of these together when all you had was what you could find in the junkyard so ya gotta give him some slack for that .....would I buy a car from him ? Probably not..
@email46643 жыл бұрын
Do take note at how the fitment of the caddy hood was excluded from camera view, but a peek as it shuts shows a massive seam gap- On a finished car
@sweethands43284 жыл бұрын
What a cool dude
@dirkwinchester15764 жыл бұрын
Dear Dennis , I want your job.
@nosferatu56 жыл бұрын
Wow, absolute legend.
@raymondherbert39604 жыл бұрын
WOW! WHAT A GENUS.
@jerrytee26884 жыл бұрын
What exactly is a GENUS?
@yourallbrainwashed4 жыл бұрын
Gas cap bezel is from a 58 dodge taillight
@OldSkoolF7 жыл бұрын
Gene is a freakin Hot rod god.
@JayBee-se8ou4 жыл бұрын
He also made the 6000SUX from RoboCop. Bummed we did see pics of it.
@tyrssen14 жыл бұрын
(Stupid disco-muzak at 13:20 is totally not needed. A 427 makes all the music ya need. ) Great, great cars from one of the all-time great builders.
@G_de_Coligny6 жыл бұрын
Gotta be impressed by the suspension layout design... The epitome of 0 frack given... The rollers under my fridge look more roadworthy...
@Dd132002 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@robertklein91905 жыл бұрын
The cars age, Gene doesn't
@JonBlondell4 жыл бұрын
He looks the same now as in 1948!!!
@jquest434 жыл бұрын
You should have done a 2 hour video on Gene and split into 20 10 min vids
@stephenbirks64584 жыл бұрын
Wow bladerunner - Shuttle for Startrek - BTTF - 6.06 love the Maybaline ?
@kevinc90065 жыл бұрын
Gene is 91 now
@oldschool84324 жыл бұрын
It's incredible how he gets around at this age
@xcx23cwea656 жыл бұрын
NO ROBOT CAN REPLACE THE HUMAN TOUCH
@ianbarber3116 жыл бұрын
How long is that Caddy? about 36 feet? Great video!