With an original run of 5 seasons, the series made nearly 90 automotive dreams come true. The show is now once again back in production with MotorTrend with new episodes set to launch in late ! November brought about the beginning of a relationship with Boyd Coddington and Hot Rods by Boyd, becoming a full time position in , where Chip eventually became the President. At this time Chip relocated his company Foose Design, an automotive and product design Development Company.
The year was equally exciting for Chip. This rebooted format lasted 4 more seasons and aired its last episode in November In , Chip celebrated his 30th year in the design business, highlighted by a showcase at the Petersen Automotive Museum to celebrate the milestone and his induction into the prestigious SEMA Hall of Fame. New episodes launched in November Chip continues to run his business Foose Design, where he designs and builds automotive masterpieces.
Where It All Started. See Full Bio. See Awards. On a busy day, the bays ring with the clang of tools, and sparks fly as metal is bent to create custom looks.
This year Foose is celebrating 30 years in the business. Foose sat down with the Register to discuss hot rodding and how television shows have changed the industry. His answers have been edited for length and clarity. Now you can order pretty much any part you need over the phone. When I first started with my father, if we needed a motor or pieces to put something together, we went to the wrecking yards and got pieces off of old cars and made them work.
My father started his own shop when he was 14 years old. So when I was a kid I started sitting next to my father at the age of three and I would draw.
When he would do a drawing I would sit next to him and copy it. When he was done he would leave it on the table and I would draw it over and over again because I wanted to be as good as my dad. At 7, I started going to the shop and I would like to say that I was helping him but I think I destroyed more than I actually helped. At the age of 7, I also met another designer, Alex Tremulis who was the head of the Ford Thunderbird studio through the 60s. Alex told me about Art Center College of Design.
So at 7, I knew I wanted to go to Art Center. My father just retired about a year ago. As a kid he worked for a company called AMT which was in Phoenix.
He was building a lot of cars for television. He built the shuttle from Star Trek. The cars that he was building, AMT is the plastic model kit, so plastic model kits would become available to them after they had built the cars and then Hot Wheels was built the little diecast toys of them.
There are two completely different worlds: automotive design for the manufacturers and the aftermarket hot rodding and custom car industry.
One is a career and one is a lifestyle. When I do a car in the aftermarket, in the hot rod world, I can go to events today and see cars that I built with my father 30 years ago. And the people I work with, not only do we build a car but we build a friendship.
Cars today have a wide array of features. Are you seeing people wanting to improve these cars even more or mainly older cars? Our focus is trying to create every one of these vehicles to be a rolling piece of drivable art.
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