The B-pillars were re-installed in the vertical position, and the door tops extended to make up for the difference after the chop. A lot of body reshaping was needed to make the C-Pillar shape work with the lower top and trunk. The trunk was pie-cut sectioned from nothing at the back to around 5 inches in the front to match the new lower roof line. The A-pillars were slightly leaned back in the process of the chop, enhancing the streamlined look of the car. The rear window was removed at this point to be later reinstalled at the perfect angle. The rear portion of the top was dropped around 5.5 inches at the C-pillar.
The trunk and inner truck supports were removed at this point. The B-pillars were discarded, for now and the C-pillars were cut just above the belt line. Sam cut of the top at the A-Pillars and removed 3.5 inches from the posts. The chop would require reshaping of the whole rear section of the car, very much unlike the coupes and sedans he had done over the last couple of years. And as far as we know, Sam was the first one who tackled such a chop. And at the time, the early 1950’s he had never seen any body else done a similar top either. Sam had already chopped the top on hit Buick his head, but in reality he had never done a fastback type of car before. Next thing Sam would tackle was the chop. Sam started with clearing out all the fire damage and then lowered the suspension three inches to get the car to sit right. Extending them with an unknown rear fender (possibly a ’51 Plymouth unit), and adding the 1953 Pontiac Wagon taillights. These two show the car with the top already chopped and Sam working on the rear fenders. Sadly not to many in progress photos have surfaced of Sam’s 1950 Buick. It would take Sam nearly two years working in his spare time to finish his next personal dream custom. His brain really started to work overtime, and he could see a wonderful chopped streamlined family car in front of him. He bought the car for $650.- and took it back to the barris Shop were he put it in a corner, and slowly started to work on it in his spare time. The car’s shell was mostly intact only the interior was completely burned up. The car was declared a total wreck and sold to a wrecking yard to be scraped. It would show who the Barris Shop was capable of. Sam came across a 1950 Buick Sedanette that was was damaged in a garage fire.
They were perfect for his young family and the streamlined roof line would be something new he would have to tackle. Sam had fallen in love with the wonderful streamlined shapes of the roofs of this model car. The car he was looking into for his next Custom was one of the streamlined Sedanette model. Sam had sold his trend setting 1949 Mercury, one of the first to get chopped, soon after completion in 1951 and before that he had owned a very nice conservative 1940 Mercury Convertible. Chopped and Restyled till perfection.Īround 1952 Sam Barris, the creative, genius craftsman of the two Barris brothers, from the famous Barris Kustom Shop, feels the urge to create and own a personal custom car again. The Sam Barris 1950 Buick is the perfect showcase of what the Barris Kustom Shop, and especially Sam Barris was capable of.
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