Encouraged by Ford and Preston Tucker designer Alex Tremulis, Foose started to attend the Art Center College of Design in 1982 however, he dropped out after two years due to financial difficulties. They’re short, concise, and in manageable bite-sized chunks of auto-entertainment.The custom 1960 Ford Starliner at the Marconi Automotive Museum, customized by Chip Foose.įoose began working on automobiles at age seven for his father's company, Project Design, in Santa Barbara, California. There are about a million videos on the Hagerty YouTube channel, from “Chip Foose Draws a Car” to something called “The Next Big Thing with Magnus Walker,” “Redline Rebuilds,” “Redline Update” (for when the rebuilds are taking longer than they thought), “The Barn Find Hunter,” and several others we’re probably missing. You can dial that in and go have some serious fun, just like they were doing back in the ’40s.” You can pick up a Mustang like this today for under $7,500. You could buy a car like that, strip it down to its basics, go out to the dry lakes or to the drag strip and have some serious fun. “That was based on the ’32 Ford, and why the ’32 was so popular wasn’t just that it was a great design but the fact that when these guys were getting out of the military in the ’40s, those cars could be bought for 20 to 30 bucks. “This car reminds me of the very first episode that we did with Hagerty,” Foose says. It’s finished off with not just the 5.0 graphic, but with a Shelby graphic next to that. There’s a hood scoop and a rear wing, too. He added a set of wheels that he says “…would look like something that Shelby would have done in that era.” He also did a subtle ground effects around the rear bumper and on the lower rocker panels. Indeed, it soon looks as cool as almost any Chip Foose drawing. “I’m going to make it look like Carroll Shelby was still involved with Ford,” Foose says as he works the pens and felt-tip markers. The Shelby Mustangs were a thing of the past he was working with Chrysler and Lee Iacocca there…” He quickly left and went to Chrysler before this Mustang was ever out, because Iacocca had such a great relationship with Shelby. “The fact that Lee Iacocca, when he was still with Ford, before leaving to go to Chrysler, he's the one who greenlit the fox chassis at Ford Motor Company.
So Foose starts drawing away, the whole time talking about the car and its history. Let’s see we can do to have some fun with it.” Of course, he’s Chip Foose, so making a cool car is probably a lot easier for him than for the rest of us.
And with all the technology and parts that are available, you could make a pretty cool little car.” “But I want to see what we can do to this because you can go out there and buy these pretty reasonably right now. “The fastback I think has a better line,” Foose says. Purists will decry the notchback body and demand that you use a fastback.
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That’s with the 5.0-liter V8 already in it, and there are warehouses full of performance parts that’ll fit a 5.0. Foose thinks you could get one for $7,500. So, of course, anyone of these that you find in 2021 will have at least 28 years of hard livin’ already on it.
The third-gen Mustang notchback was built from 1979 to 1993, Foose says on the video, but the chassis was used for 26 years.
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For his latest episode of the Hagerty YouTube series “Chip Foose Draws a Car,” Chip decided to do his take on the third-generation Mustang, the Fox body notchback. Chip Foose sees beauty in so many things, and potential where others see only pain.
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