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Chip Foose Explains His P32 - Expanded Interview for Web
April 14, 2008 By BigAl Breland
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Chip Foose Explains His P32 - Expanded Interview for Web writer: Eric Geisert photographer: Scott Williamson It seems that everyone is aware of who Chip Foose is nowadays, especially since his "Overhaulin"' TV show has just wrapped up its fifth season. But hot rodders have known about Foose long before you started seeing his company logo plastered everywhere, before his involvement in Christopher Titus' self-named television show-- back to when he designed wheels and cars for Boyd Coddington in the late '90s. But STREET RODDER can say "we knew ya when" as we included Chip in an interview on his famous father, customizer Sam Foose in the April '92 issue of the magazine. No one knew the then-27-year-old would ascend to the heights he now enjoys but one thing has been assured these past 16 years: the kid has always had talent. There is so much to look at on this simple car you don't know where to start. But one area might be the '36 Ford cowl that was used instead of the original '32 unit. Chip used it because there is far less kick in the side panels making for an easier transition between the doors and the hood sides. Having been involved on the design and fabrication end of many award winning cars (his Huntington Beach-based crew has built multiple America's Most Beautiful Roadster and Don Ridler Memorial Award winners), his latest self-owned project--the P-32 roadster--is an about-face to what typically rolls out of his shop, but not in the technique of how it was built or, more importantly, the "why" it was built. To find out more, we sat down with Chip one evening at his house in Southern California, catching him on his only night home between the cross-country trips that make up his life nowadays. Not only does this interview specifically cover his roadster, but also subjects as diverse as aircraft, furniture, and yacht design, where he gets his inspiration for wheel designs, what he feels about the differences between rat rods and smoothie cars, when a hot rod is truly finished, what it takes to win the Ridler or AMBR, what car he's working on now that he hopes will be the next Ridler winner, plus the other car he almost built instead of this one. Also, though this is a feature on the "finished" vehicle, STREET RODDER has also run two different articles of the build-up on this roadster, covering the engine and trans placement in the November 2005 issue while the unique tie-rod-less, bell-crank front steering was highlighted in the July 2006 issue. That original 1992 STREET RODDER interview with Sam Foose closed with the statement "Chip has to leave the interview at this point. But we're sure we'll be hearing from him in the future." We just hope it won't be another 16 years before we do! |
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