They’re not going to like the Foose spin on this one, just like some were ultimately offended at how he tweaked a Jaguar E-Type not too long ago. This time around the famous designer has had his way with a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro in the video posted below.įor many, the ’69 Chevy Camaro is a holy icon, something you just don’t mess with. That’s exactly what we get regularly from Chip Foose and crew. While it’s great to see a faithfully-restored classic car, it’s also fun to see what kinds of fresh spins people can put on such a vehicle. Plenty of people love restomods and for obvious reasons. So to pick my favorite would be so difficult.The man makes his customer happy once more and it’s obvious why. “… It’s the people that I spent some time with to create this piece of artwork. “Boy, that’s like saying, ‘Which is your favorite kid?’” Foose said. When I asked him which was his favorite car he smiled. Because if I build something for him and she doesn’t like it all, she’s never going to want to be around it and he may never build another car.”įoose brought five of his cars to the AutoFair, all of which are amazing builds. “And if you get the wife to love it and she wants to go to these shows with her husband and share the experience with him, then you’ve hit a home run. “So, if you do a beautiful, elegant design, generally, the wife is going to love it as well,” Foose said. “Because if they’re going to spend the money on a car, which is really expensive, I want her to absolutely fall in love with the car as well. “I pay real, real close attention to what his wife likes: How she decorates the house, what kind of colors she wears, what she really likes,” Foose said. But I’ll ask them many, many questions” about what they like and want.Īnd that gets to one of Foose’s secrets: Most of his customers are male, but it’s critical to get buy-in at home. “They tell me what kind of car they want to build, then I start looking at those cars and see what may have been done in the past. “Or a lot of times, it’s the customer coming in,” said Foose. You see things and think, ‘OK, I’d love to do something similar, but maybe I’ll do this.’ “Inspiration comes from everywhere,” he said. One of Foose’s myriad talents is having a sharp eye. “I knew exactly what I wanted to do form the age of 7 years old,” Foose said in an exclusive interview with. Foose is articulate about his work and even more than that, he’s passionate about his lifelong love of his work.

We caught up with Foose Thursday morning at the track. The AutoFair runs through Sunday afternoon. The weekend, Foose is at Charlotte Motor Speedway, where he’s working with 3M at the Pennzoil AutoFair presented by Advance Auto Parts.

Foose has won the “Riddler” Award at the Detroit Autorama multiple times and has captured the Good Guys Street Rod of the Year Award a staggering eight times. He was worked on or built seven different winners of the prestigious America’s Most Beautiful Roadster Award at the Grand National Roadster Show. In 1997, at the age of 31, Foose became the youngest person every inducted into the Hot Rod Hall of Fame. Foose, a native of Southern California and the son of artist and car builder Sam Foose, is one of the top custom-car builders in the world, and his work has won virtually every major award worth winning.

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