![]() ![]() “I’ve worked for a lot of builders (in architecture) who are also geniuses and I’ve found there are two things you don’t ask them about: how much time and how much money.” “I didn’t know at that time that he had just finished a restoration on one.” “He did this amazingly intricate portrait of a Karmann Ghia that was by far the best of anyone in that room.” “In the very first class I had him in at Art Center, I asked the class to draw a Karmann Ghia,” said Stewart Reed, head of transportation design at that Pasadena institution. It’s very rare to meet somebody who has everything and is humble about it.” “Chip has talents as a designer and a builder. “At Pixar we have all kinds of very talented people, people who specialize in one area and are very good at it,” said Jay Ward. “A design is only as good as it can be built,” said collector and Foose client Don Voth. “I say, ‘These cars are all expensive and take a long time to do and it costs just as much to make an ugly one so why not make a nice one?” “People ask me, ‘Why do you use Chip? Isn’t he expensive?” said Foose client Wes Rydell, whose cars have won both the Ridler and the AMBR. They rolled the Round-Door Rolls out of the atrium and rolled the Foose Imposter in, then set up about a hundred chairs for the fans and set up a stage for Foose and a few assorted Foose-related dignitaries to wax poetic on their favorite carmaker. The celebration took place Saturday, July 23, in the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Whatever the year, Foose has been around a long time and it’s high time to celebrate.however many years it’s been. But you could make a case that this is his 40 th year in design, too. So organizers of the Foose 30 th Anniversary in Design Celebration at the Petersen Automotive Museum decided to start with his first “paying” job, with ASHA Corporation in his native Santa Barbara in 1986. He was so active as a youth that picking the “start” of his design career was a little awkward. He bought his first car the same year, his dad’s 1956 F-100 shop truck, and spent the next three years customizing it. He painted his first car, a Porsche 356, at age 13. “Sometimes I’d fall asleep in the car I was working on, get up, come home to take a shower and then go to school.” “My mom would call at 4 in the morning and ask when I was coming home,” the younger Foose recalled. Chip Foose grew up in his dad Sam’s hot rod shop in Santa Barbara and spent many days and nights there building cars. ![]()
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