Renowned custom car designer Chip Foose was in Cleveland, Ohio for the 2nd annual I-X Piston Power Show on October 1, 2011. Prior to his arrival, we offered fans an opportunity to ask Chip questions through the Lincoln Electric Facebook page about his approach to building, tech tips, or anything else they wanted to know.
Chip was kind enough to sit down with us and address some of these questions.
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When the young Comte de Dion stopped at the Giroux toy shop on Paris’s Boulevard des Italiens in December 1881, he was looking for toys to give as prizes at a ball he was planning. But he was intrigued by the quality of the workmanship of a model steam engine and asked who had built it. Directed to the workshop out back, he found Georges Bouton and Charles-Armand Trepardoux. They were earning a measly seven francs a day building model boats and steam engines and scientific instruments. De Dion promptly offered them 10 francs a day and asked them to build a full-size engine, such as might power a carriage. So, in much the same way as the aristocratic Charles Rolls engaged engineer Henry Royce some 20 years later, a multi-class partnership was formed between a wealthy entrepreneur and working class craftsmen.
Bouton and Trepardoux set to work in a run-down building on the Rue Pergolese, near Avenue de la Grande Armee, the center of Paris’s bicycle industry, whose workers would soon be building automobiles. The problem with steam-powered vehicles was that efficient boilers were huge and powered locomotives and steamships. So how could one be miniaturized?
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New - ISS (Integrated Seating System)
Fully Integrated 3 Point Seat System
All Belts Attached to Frame
Seat Belt retractor attached to Frame
Shoulder Belt Harness Deploys From Finished Face of Seat
Recliner Mechanism Cable Actuated
Meets FMVSS certification (207 & 210)
Seat Belts Available in several colors
Multi Density Foam Package
"E" Coated Frame
Available in 19" and 21" finished widths
Flexalator Spring System
(Note: seat back relines backward and come forward to straight up position only)
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SAR’s Tru-Fit fenders are stamped from brand new tooling patterned after original design and dimensions. Fitment to ’34 model cars should be exact while ’33 model cars will require very minor modifications, if in fact any, at the lower grille areas. Front fenders fit 2/4 Door Sedans, Roadster, Cabriolet, 3/5-Window Coupes. Rear Fenders fit Roadster, Cabriolet, 3/5-Window Coupes and Sedans with pre-scribed minor trimming. These brand new fenders are more expensive than the reproduction fenders that have been available in the past, but they are correct unlike the others. The outer bead on the Brand “X” fenders are too wide and has a peaked crease in the center. Also Brand “X” fenders do not have a consistent arch to the wheel well opening when viewed from the side. They also just plain do not fit cars. There is much cutting and welding to make them fit a car. Our new fenders have corrected all of these issues at a great expense in new modern state of the art tooling in Detroit. SAVE $400 WHEN YOU BUY A FULL SET (2 fronts & 2 rears) OF FENDERS!
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Victory Lane Garage all new V Forged light weight three-piece wheels are made from the highest quality 6061T-6 aluminum for the performance minded enthusiasts. All designs are custom built using a special spun formed rim and a lighter forged center for improved performance characteristics. Each set of wheels are custom built to fit correctly around any brake package and modified suspension set-up. Victory designs are specially developed for Pro Touring Cars, Muscle Cars, Customs and aggressive Performance Machines.
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CPP’s new Complete Rear Dual Adjustable Coil-Over Kit is designed to convert your 1963-72 Chevy truck to a corner carving, performance driving vehicle! Our kit includes our new Totally Tubular Trailing arms, coil over springs and dual adjustable coil over shocks and all the mounting hardware to make this rear suspension
Get that cool street rod stance and track proven performance for your 1963-87 Chevrolet C10 Truck! Our Complete Front Coil-Over Conversion Kits include dual-adjustable coil-over shocks, spanner wrench and bearing kit, our Totally Tubular™ upper and lower control arms, and all the mounting brackets and hardware for a simple bolt-on installation.
Sue Vanderbilt in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Seville “Baroness;" the show car that she styled for the Feminine Show. When you look back at General Motors’ rich design history, one of the most talented individuals, who made her career as part of GM’s vaunted Creative Design Team, was the late Suzanne E. Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt was one of the original Damsels of Design – a group of eight, great talented female designers that the famed Harley Earl hired during the early days of the 1950s.
Throughout history, the Oldsmobile story has inspired many automotive historians with its rich and celebrated heritage which started right in Michigan’s capital city of Lansing.
I remember a particularly exciting year in 1978 when Oldsmobile introduced their new line of vehicles and automotive catalogues to the buying public. My first impression was that Oldsmobile was using 1978 to create a family-oriented lineup of new cars. The company used its advertising and marketing to highlight many traditional family values
The year 1966 was a great year for automotive sales in the U.S. Many car manufacturers were doing very well for the economy and in 1966 the average cost for a new Dodge vehicle sold for $ 2,280 and the price of gasoline for 32 cents a gallon.
The Chrysler Corporation was also doing very well within the automotive markets with its popular Dodge Dart models. The 1966 Dodge Dart models made their debut in Dodge dealerships on September 30, 1965.
Based on a 1956 Chevrolet 210 Sedan, this recently completed mild custom was built to showcase the timeless factory “Tri-Five” heritage. With a new GM Performance ZZ4 power plant backed by a factory-fresh GM 700R4 transmission, it is equipped with rack-and-pinion steering, four-wheel Wilwood disc
To ensure that Shelby American would have its 1966 GT350 models in dealerships when Ford released the new ‘66 Mustangs, Shelby ordered an additional 252 cars from Ford’s San Jose plant at the very end of 1965 production. These ‘change-over’ cars (often referred to as ‘carry-overs’) were essentially Shelby-spec ’65 GT350s, and received the same performance modifications,
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