THE CHIP FOOSE EXPERIENCE - SEMA SHOW
Chip FOOSE Experience
Drive! Gets Exclusive Access to The Largest Collection of Foose Vehicles Ever Assembled
TEXT COURTESY OF CHIP FOOSE
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL ECKERSON
Magnatude
A customized 1932 Muroc roadster, Magnatude is actually a reimagining of a 2001 Foose design. Muroc’s were steel-bodied rollers with independent suspensions that were made available for sale by Kugel Komponents. Loosely based on the Boydster II, Chip Foose and hot rod illustrator Thom Taylor worked on the original Muroc body design. Marcel DeLay of Marcel’s Custom Metal in Corona, California, fabricated the productions bodies. Chip and Kugel designed the frames and Kugel component parts can be found throughout the vehicle. Only 20 total production vehicles were produced, 10 with fenders and 10 without.
Magnatude was named the 2010 Goodguys Street Rod d’Elegance.
Chip’s personal 1956 Ford F-100
Chip Foose’s personal 1956 Ford F-100 is more than a truck, it’s a member of the family. Originally his father Sam’s shop truck, Chip bought the vehicle at the age of 13. He spent the next 3 years rebuilding and restyling the pickup, settling on a root beer brown paint color. It became his daily driver throughout high school and his early college years.
After years of use and storage, the vehicle eventually made its way to the front lot of the Foose Design shop where it sat for a few years. But the truck was never out of Chip’s thoughts. He drew sketches and concepts of how he would like to customize to the vehicle, if his hectic schedule ever afforded him the time.
P-32 1932 Ford Highboy Roadster
P-32 was a personal project of Chip’s, an homage to rat rods and the design elements of WWII era warplanes. Chip always wondered, what if a pilot returned from the war and missed his plane so much that he built a hot rod to emulate his old aircraft? So began his first thoughts related to P-32. Not until Chip had a break from the Overhaulin’ show was he able to customize this distinctive vehicle.