Chip Foose

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Originally posted by George P:
Please no "originality vs custom" debate or comments.

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Originally posted by George P:Some were put-off by other recent custom Panteras. From what I've observed Chip's car will be as equally tasteful as Richard's.

You're banned!

From the recent article in R&T, to the Pantera being featured on 'What's My Car Worth', to Chip Foose loving on the car and doing his tasteful best, clearly Panteras are enjoying some deserved positive attention.

Great stuff. Hope the Foose car gets televised.

George, I bet an email from you inviting Chip is all it'd take. Surely someone on this Forum can forward to him.

I withdraw my admiration for the Leno marker lights...

Barkley's yellow car is now my favorite.

Looks way better with no markers and no handles.

Chip if your here ? I have a set of heater controls with cables taking up space in my garage for a pre L... Any one need them?

how much do you want for the cables. is the face plate included....mikedmayberry@hotmail.com

I'm glad I bought my button car when I did!

https://mobile.twitter.com/chi...795714154496/photo/1

Ok can/will magnaflow out do a Hall big bore set-up??

I'm surprised he didn't change the tail lights. It's usually in his designs

And he kept the 351 Cleveland!!!!

im surprized its taken so long to complete, usually they only have a week to rebuild a car totally

I agree with Marlin Jack; you need to think twice before shaving your side marker lights. The cleanest side marker light "mod" I've seen is J.T.'s elimination of the bezels and flush mounting of the OEM lenses.

Yeah, I agree w/that, the flush mount looks pretty good... tasteful mod...

You really think Chip Foose gives a crap about driving at night?

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think Chip Foose gives a crap about driving at night

The spotlight trucks for better TV & Video coverage will alert unwary drivers!

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Originally posted by Marlin Jack:
...Side Marker Lights are There for a Reason!
Sure, I agree! 'Shaved' Side Lights Look Very Cool!...Until, at Night, You get 'T-Boned' in an Intersection!!

That may be the intent, but in practice, IMHO, they'll do nothing to prevent getting T-boned. They don't give off enough light, although, switching to LEDs may help. If somebody can't see headlights and this mass of metal in front of them between e-mails, texts, tweets and phone calls you're just gonna get hit. The one good use is if they are used as side turn signal indicators. JTs are quite nice. A great bit of detail. Someone mentioned that they had seen a car where the lens were the same color of the car but wouldn't give out the proprietary details on how it was done. In most cases I imagine it isn't done because of inspection/state requirement restrictions.

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Originally posted by Panterapatt:
You really think Chip Foose gives a crap about driving at night?

The nature of his "designs" lends me to believe he doesn't drive anything.

I kinda' thought the discussion was just between us...lol... I was just looking at marker lights

latest update, all in red

https://twitter.com/chipfoose/...85722764&nid=244+590

Interesting treatment of the headers. A toss back to the original design. I see that he is staying very close to the original design in a lot of the components.

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Originally posted by Dave2811:
Interesting treatment of the headers. A toss back to the original design. I see that he is staying very close to the original design in a lot of the components.

I guess modern Magnaflow has not done any better than vintage Ghia/DeTomaso/ANSA. I was hoping for 180s. Let's wait and see/hear if sound is different.

Don't like the muffler orientation