Gene Winfield, a hot rodder and prominent car customizer who built fanciful vehicles for “Star Trekbandbet,” “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” and other television series and for films like “Blade Runner” and “Sleeper,” died on March 4 in Atascadero, Calif. He was 97.

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His son, Steve, said he died in an assisted living facility from metastatic melanoma. He had also been diagnosed with kidney failure.

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Mr. Winfield began to attract national attention in the late 1950s with a two-door 1956 Mercury hard top called the Jade Idol.

According to the custom car website Kustorama, he transformed the Mercury for a customer by adding features like handmade fenders rolled in aluminum in the front end; headlight rings made from 1959 Chrysler Imperial Crown hubcaps; a television set integrated into a new dashboard; and a steering column taken from an Edsel.

ImageThe restored Jade Idol in Salinas, Calif., in 1981. Mr. Winfield first attracted national attention in the late 1950s with the car, a customized two-door 1956 Mercury hardtop.Credit...David Grant

Automobile magazine described the Jade Idol as having “a sharklike presence that represented a new direction in customs.”

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