Chip Foose

[71dusterdan]

it is refreshing seeing how chip treats people on his show and in person, i'd cut my arm off for him and have never met him, but he comes off as genuine. Then you can watch 2 other names with shops and cars,one was once the king and chips boss. the other just a large ego'd big mouthed, arrogant fill in the blank. you watch there interaction with people and you cant help wonder how they are still in business. the one guy would show up at a car sellers house beat them up over chump change and it was usually a guy that could've used the money, but then wouldn't sell the freshly finished car at an auction because there was no money at the auction. well he got his 15 minutes and some of you haven't got any idea who he is anymore. just rewards, and the other guy has watched his help leave and show up on fooses shows, and had to scale back operations. again just rewards. i am delighted for chip foose.

[sonic69]

I have Foose/Arc audio amps and speakers. Last year at Detroit he signed them for me and was way cool also.

[BA.]

I ain't cryin', I got dust in my eye! <sniff,sniff>

Seriously, I've not met him, but I never hear anything but good things. Love the show too, it got me off my ass to start fixing the car.


Love that air-cleaner! (me, I'd clear-coat it and run it if the hood has a lock on it!

[73z-6sp]

I think Chip is a real stand up honest guy that I would love to work for. I actually volunteered on the Overhaulin' site but of course never got any response. I would have done it for free! I too havent met him but hope to. He either has us all fooled, or he really is that cool. I hope the latter.

[colt zantop]

chips is one cool guy. I met him in detroit at the autorama last year. he shook my hand, had a few brief words about the street rod we were both admiring and then I asked for a picture with him. didnt hesitate to pose with me and my dad snapped the pic. MAN....I WOULD NOT HAVE THAT CLEANER ON THAT CAR....DISPLAY CASE MATERIAL ONLY!!!!!

[Mr.VENGEANCE]

sounds like a cool cat..

[vanzuuk1]

Chip foose pulled my handicapped cousin from a burning barn...

Just kidding, let that dry and have it cleared.

[dodge]

very cool thing for him to do....

[MonzaRacer]

OK for some of the people I have got to meet, the late Gray Baskerville, some of the guys from Car Craft, Hot Rod and other (on the Power Tour), the late Jeff Moses from Auto Custom Carpets, Suzy Bogguss, 38 Special, Marshal Tucker Band, Boyd Coddington ,and more.
AS for Boyd I met him on the first HRPT that I went to in 97. got an autograph of the HRM with the 57 on the cover, he let me sit in the 57, and we started it. And as for him being an a$$ hole or anything I could not disagree more.
While I have met so many hundreds of great people in the industry and so far have never found any a bad person or stand offish or mean or any of what some seem to say.
I do know that some people will come up and can get instantly on the persons nerves so to speak. The fella who came up when we were around the 57 in St Louis started going off on Boyd about some of the lesser wheels with his name and he told him to hang around and he wouls see if he could help him out and all the guy did was say give me my damn money back,,, well as most know now Boyd had to spend a lot of money to get his brand name back after getting ripped off him self.
I have seen several people go up to "famous" people and litterally get in thier face ,,,then wonder why some people will lash back sometimes.
That fella got escorted out of the Power Tour area but Boyd told one of the folks with him to go get the guys name and address. From probably 3 blocks away the guy was still cussing and screaming. We found out later at the motel ,after meeting Jeff from ACC, that the fella got arressted.
Anyway if you meet someone in the industry and they seem tense or mad or anything like that, then it may be because of different things.
When I met Gray he was mad cause a person didnt understand he had some physical problems. We had been on the road all day and everyone was tired and some fella came up and was rapid fire questions to him, and yes he got a little irrate with the fella,,, I bet that guy thinks one of the kindest most interesting automotive jounalist I ever had the pleasure of meeting and i am sure some fella out there thinks he was a some kind of bad person .
I have heard from some people that Chip was an ass but i wont believe it till I get to meet him.
So calling Boyd a bad name is a little petty.
Oh and congrats on the autograph
Lee

[71dusterdan]

no, monzaracer you are right i have never met him(boyd) just what i see on the tv. he has had his rough times and paid his dues, cant argue that. he just comes off as condescending, and arrogant, and not very pleasant , kind of fake on tv. that is the only thing i have to base that on, so i would not go out of my way to meet him. I do however really like that polara they built on tv for the kid, max with some kind of threatening disease, that was big of him and came off as genuine. you just dont see that side of him. or maybe i should say that his tv show does not do a good job of capturing that side of him as they do with chip.

[71dusterdan]

now that i reread the thread a couple of times, who called boyd a bad name? in fact i said he was once the king and chips former boss. someone else just felt that boyd wouldnt give a ..... about you if he met you on the street. nobody called him a name, so i guess it wouldnt be petty now would it. not our fault the media does not catch and flaunt boyds better qualities, does make you think doesn't it.