In 1998, Chip was honored at the SMRA banquet and was the first recipient of the Good Guys Trendsetter Award, once again creating another historic moment in the Hot Rod industry. This induction made Chip the youngest member ever inducted into the Hot Rod Hall of Fame at the age of 31. In November of 1997, Chip was inducted into the Hot Rod Hall of Fame at Peterson Publishing’s 50th anniversary, held at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada. These products are available to private individuals, automobile manufacturers and television and film producers. His company specializes in illustration, graphics, ideation, model making, surfacing and complete construction of automobiles and automotive related products. However, Chip’s venture with Boyd ended in 1998.Īt this time Chip relocated his company Foose Design, an automotive and product design Development Company. Chip, who is widely acclaimed for fostering the “Boyd Look”, was responsible for many internationally known vehicles such as: Roadstar, Sportstar, Boydster I and II, and Boyd Air to name a few. November 1990 brought about the beginning of a relationship with Boyd Coddington and Hot Rods by Boyd, becoming a full time position in 1993, where Chip eventually became the President. Other work has included: Stehrenberger Design as an automotive designer, creating illustrations and conceptual models Baker Sportronics, as chief designer and fabricator of electric vehicles used in the NFL and MLB and of course, working with his father, designing and building street rods, customs, studio vehicles and show cars for films such as Blade Runner, RoboCop, and Gone in 60 Seconds. Chip was responsible for conceptualizing new proprietary ideas and fabrication of prototypes for the OEM’s. By age twelve, Chip already had five years of experience under his belt, and had also painted his first car, a Porsche 356.Įarly on, a chance meeting from Alex Tremulus, the designer of the “Tucker”, was Chip’s motivation to attend Art Center, where he majored in automotive product design and graduated in 1990 with honors.Ĭhip’s career profile is staggering in 1986 he was Staff Designer/Fabricator for the Asha Corporation, eventually becoming director of design in 1989. Chip’s first job was working for his father’s company, Project Design. Chip was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California and automobiles were definitely in his blood. Everything on it is… nothing is new but the way I put it all together, it’s an original.In a relatively short career, Chip Foose has created a legacy of designs and accomplishments that are well beyond his years. “I look at this corner and I like this corner-look from a Jaguar, and that hood scoop-I have a model from a 250 Testarossa Ferrari and I’m gonna make mine look as close to that as I can. He, of course, did 99% of all the work, and it was just a pleasure to be able to work with Luc and create this car.” Located the holes for the hood, the side scoops. I did a few sketches with him, worked with him, built the buck, covered it with duct tape. Luc always wanted to build a car for himself. Mathieu from ‘Fast N’ Loud!’ “He and his (late) father and his brother (Marc) they own Marcel’s Custom Metal. “Luc De Lay is a metal shaper I’ve been working with since the early ‘90s,” Foose told K.C. “Chip” in this case is, of course, Chip Foose, the modern-day metal shaping Michelangelo. I could make the sculpture if Chip draws it. The project took three and a half years, done in De Lay’s spare time away from his "day job." NewspressUSAīut he does need some help in the design. He had a vision in his head and he would build it.” “I feel I have metal shaping skills, but he was an artist. “I wish I knew what he forgot,” Luc De Ley told Hemmings after his father passed away four years ago. The founding father passed away in 2018 at the age of 89, but he had been teaching his sons, Luc and Marc, all the tricks of the trade. All those cool cars you’ve admired over the last several decades-think of Rick Dore’s customs for Metallica frontman James Hetfield-were hammered and wheeled into shape at Marcel’s. He could take any drawing, any shape, any idea, and make it into a vision of rolling art. Marcel was famous among hot rodders and custom car kings for his work. “I wanted to show off the metal shape.”ĭe Lay is the son of Marcel De Lay, founder of Marcel’s Custom Metal now in Norco, California. “It’s just my rendition of a late-‘50s Ferrari, Maserati, Aston Martin, Scarab, whatever you like,” said renowned metal shaper Luc De Lay. Hiding in a far corner of the North Hall at the SEMA show was what may turn out to be the coolest car of the year: the Chip Foose-designed, Luc De Lay-built MarCel Roadster.
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