Movie Cars: Gene Winfield Car Collection
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Calling all Blade Runner Fans! Today, we tour the amazing collection and workshop of Gene Winfield. Robert Eugene Winfield is a legendary American custom car builder, painter, designer, and dry lakes racer. His shop Winfield Customs is located in Mojave, California, and Gene at the age of 94, is touring all over the world chopping cars and laying down his signature fadeaway paint jobs.
Gene's creations have been featured in movies like Back to the Future, RoboCop and Bladerunner, #Batman, Get Smart and more!
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Wow ...thank you...he is one of the G.O.A.Ts...thanks again....as i watched this tears begin to flow as the memories of those cars and models and all the questions i had for my dad came back...all my life we talked about meeting him and traveling across country to go meet him and have him do somthing for us and teach me something that i could pass down to the next gen...but as father time has no stop button 40 plus yrs have passed and most of my dreams are gone but as an old man myself i still want to make that journey with my child b4 its to late...
Oh brother, I'm with you there. It can be done! He was touring the car show circuit up until the pandemic. My son and I got to meet him in the Omaha stop and he was amazingly gracious, I figured He'd MAYBE talk to me for a few seconds after the photo with my 3yro son and I, then he asked me about what I was working on. I told him a '31 A Coupe and he was so excited, he wanted all the details of my project. A TRUE car guy, incredibly nice and sincere. So thankful for the handful of minutes I had with him. Could have gone on for hours. He's a treasure and a badass.
The word GOAT came from a Capricorn who was a boxer,because that's their zodiac.
My grandpas cars were at the museum for a little while once. His name was John Siroonian and used to be known as Mr. 32. He also was the founder of Western Wheel. We still have all of his cars and would love to show them again. It's sad no one gets to enjoy them like he used to.
I am a Southern California native/resident that just finished up working 3 years straight at one of the wind farms close by Gene's shop.
I was told a few years ago by a coworker that I had to meet Gene, and go by his shop. I never did that, but one day, a few months after the Ford Dealership there in Mojave was shuttered, I saw Gene's trailer on the property, loading a few things up.
I went and spoke to him for a few minutes, and he handed me his card.
I told him that I met Dick Dean a few times, and that Dean's granddaughter is my Goddaughter. The late Dick Dean is one of those guys that toiled in the back of both the Dean Jeffries and the George Barris shop, did the real work, and only a relatively few know about their contributions while Barris and Jeffries got all the glory.
I did ask Winfield as I wrapping up our conversation if there are any more guys out there like him... you know, real old school customizers from way back when.
Sadly, he told me no, that he was pretty much it.
Gene’s Hot Rod Shop is Hot Rod Heaven. 😎👍🇨🇦
So glad to see this wonderfully creative artist honored in this way. He won't last forever but the creations that are the manifestation his genius will . Please encourage the museum to do a Winfield only exhibit while he can appreciate and enjoy the adulation from his generations of fans.
I remember reading custom car magazines 30 years ago as a kid and admiring Gene’s creations…back then he was only in his 60’s and now after 30 years, he is still doing it. What a guy.
OMG it's just unbelievable. That place is a condensed time capsule with so much lore. I'm catching just a glimpse of how the bread is baked and getting chills.
Excellent! I built most of those models as a kid and later saw his cars at the Oakland Roadster Shows…….
Wow. That place is awesome. No polished tiles and clean walls, just a real actual shop like it is. Kudos to the production team for actually letting the man talk and showing the place instead of the usual 0.5 second flashes they do on other channels.
I love his creations! True legend!! I remember ready his name on old model car boxes when I was a kid dreamt of getting to his caliber all my life!
**GENE WINFIELD** = THE MAN | THE LEGEND !!!
I met gene Winfield when I was a kid he painted a car at the dealership my dad was working at and my dad was the body shop manager
A buddy of mine was in LA a couple of years ago and saw the Reactor at the Petersen auto museum & sent me some pictures of it, naturally one is jelly of that, but I believe I had seen it as well at the Cars of the Stars museum when it was open back in 78 in Buena Park!!!
bless you Mr.Winfield
I get chills from seeing Gene & all his work of art
I've met Gene a couple of times when he would visit Pittsburgh as part of the World of Wheels/Autorama shows and had the opportunity to watch him work. Absolutely incredible man.
I remember seeing him featured on an automotive show a few years ago that I used to watch and was truly amazed by the works of art this genius of a man has created!
finally found someone as superb as CHAD
Seen him at the good guys in syrecuse in upper stste n y what a insperation god bless stay around a nother 92
What a great idea to go interview him out at his place and see his collection...🍺😎
Next time I'm on my way to Vegas, imma stop by and take a pic!! Not far off 58..
Comes a point when someone does not need any further Promo & Advertising Specialties. He does not care to live an organized simple life. How many items could one track, the story of what evert item means and still KEEP in a lifetime. Good thing he has a remote desert around him. I know Don Thiel in Modesto and the late Dick Carter. Extrerme memory banks (and parts hoarders) both have this extreme excess and daily additions to never slow down, and never get rid of anything either unless a job needs it. It is a special brain and body that can do all this production and remember the countless details. Too bad he hasn't got the several Big New 50,000 sqft garages like Jay Leno and shop help.
This was an amazing awe inspiring moment for me. Wow, thank you Peterson Team! To be there and feel the vibes. 🤘🔥😎🔥🤘
"I truly believed I'd never be here." Winfield 's shop is literally one hour North of the Petersen Museum and open for business.
I am shocked at what is just sitting out in the yard. Wow
Gene comes to just about every Detroit Autorama. I'm always sure to pop by to say hi and wish him well. A true legend.
I thought these cars look familiar saw this on my classic car couple years ago
wow what a legend
hes a living legend makes me smile that he's down to earth
Wow just wow!! 👍👍
I'm so proud to have a Gene Winfield model corvair.my fav.
Was that from Tha last starfighter.omg...looks like it.
Gene is the man !!!!
Amazing customs and creations, and a facility bathed in automotive patina! Lots of fun watching on a Sunday morning. Thanks!
Awesome
He ran "the Thing" on a lark out at El Mirage back in 2015 "we just decided to go racing an threw this flat head in it...might go 145" and it did. We stopped to help him re-attach his trailer after it separated from the truck going over a bump just outside the BLM Rec Area. Great guy, very appreciative and engaging.
Next time can we come with you
It's a shame that when He's gone.....it's gone, and I'm sure anybody close to him has absolutely zero intentions of doing anything other than liquidate any and all of his possessions.......or at least anything that can MAKE THEM MONEY!!!!
And now classics are over priced, and the classics "20-50s really get hammered and horribly customized by modern day car guys. I mean more power to them, i just dont like that many classics are getting ruined. Plus obamas cash for clunkers probably didnt help? But i get it, one of the reasons classics are so expensive now, is that people know what their classics are worth now. Well some if them do, lol. But an average car enthusiast can still get lucky. But i also think classics went sky high due to car custom tv shows, such as wheeler dealer. They paid wayyyy to much for their cars, and sold them for waaay too much usually to some rich businessman who isnt really a car guy, and just bought their fixed up car for the show. Now anyone who has a plymouth duster with a slant 6, thinks their car is worth the same as a numbers matching hemi roadrunner with a pistol grip shifter. Its MAD!!! Imay sound a little sour, but only because ckassics are just rolling art. And its not like the owners designed those cars. Its become more of a snob hobby, and/or its bacame a horsepower hobby. When imo, they ruin a lot if cars but tearing out the original powertrains, and stuffing in a million hp waste of money, plus they ruin the looks too. Thats why id like to just take moulds of some of my favorite classic vehicles, so i cancusromize the fiberglass bodies, as to not ruin the classics, the i just find a late model rwd chassis to stuff under it, and put a basic chevy small block , or even an electric powertrain, and not have to worry about ruining classic car history. Plus the world is going to crap, and the states will become like china "if were lucky, and we will transition to mass transit.. or we could become futher separated by classes, and become like Inda or even worse, so im not bitter, im just saying classics are overpriced for nothing. And now even cars that are 10-20 years old are skyrocketing in price. Id rather just buld a one off body, and just enjoy it while it lasts.
It makes you wonder who will carry the torch when he's gone. Bad Chad is the only builder that does this sort of thing now.
10 minutes only? Common!👍👍👍
There’s a part 2 coming
Where is this?? Barstow??.. sorry have to watch with volume down, so i dont waken my loves nappy. ☮️
Hes finally stating to move like an old man. But damn, hes about a hundred years old. Hes got good Genes lol.
Please can we see more people who created movie magic such as the car’s in back to the future etc. 😀👍🏻
OMG Legend
My Uncle Mike knew Gene himself and they worked on cars together
OMG 😱
"The Master", Sir Gene....
The Best !!!!
Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned
from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the
Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025
on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas
station per city or county. Now they want to slow down all the gas station fuel
pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in
the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems,
turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and
New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be
done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of
crime here, called emissions and smoke crime accoring to the new BABVVO law of Mrs Bärbock :-(//=()()
everything in the shop needs a skim coat of bondo
Such an amazing guy!
Evem Gene has a car hood as an awning.
Ian Rousell's hero!
When someone refers to a color-shift as "hombre," I will now correct them and say, "No, that is a Winfield Fade."
"Live long and prosper" indeed Gene...¡ Exclusively gifted and life very well done...¡☆☆☆
I'm officially blown away.
Infuriating - too damn short. More! More! More...!
Part 2 is tomorrow
@@PetersenMuseum just watched it.
He has slowed down from when I met him in Mojave nearly 3 years ago.
I think he tours the country, teaching customizing techniques to young folks on fire to learn them? I'm pretty sure that what he told me?
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
Thanks for the tour. You could go on for hours and not show all of Gene's work. Anxiously awaiting Part2..3..4..5... etc :)
There is a part 2... easy enough to find. :)
The cars and the shop are impressive but a woman as attractive as Michaela and into them is something you don't see everyday
It's all lies
What a shame you people were more important than the Man and his work.
God he has Model kits that are priceless , hope he has someone taking care of him , great Vid on a Legend of a Car builder..