Ron Loynds, owner of Metalsport Wheels, stated “I would personally like to thank Chip and Lynne for the confidence and trust given to Metalsport and allowing us into the Foose Design family along with our friendship that has evolved. Autograph signing sessions are scheduled as well.
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Founded in 1998, Foose Design products and creative services are available to individuals, TV and film companies and automotive manufacturers. Fans will get a rare chance to hear the Foose family story as well as ask them questions. Chip Foose has created more than a dozen wheel designs for this line including his latest designs, Bel Air and Vortex.Ĭhip Foose is the creative head and driving force behind the respected automotive and product development company Foose Design (Headquartered in Huntington Beach, California, it specializes in illustration, graphics, ideation model making, surfacing and complete construction of automobiles and automobile-related products.
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Foose Design has worked closely with Metalsport Wheels over the past years to develop the Signature Series line. The signing of this extension celebrates the 10th anniversary of this successful collaboration. We send our thoughts to the entire Foose family as they deal with the loss of their patriarch and we thank them on behalf of the entire world of hot rodding for all that they’ve done and will continue to do.ApMetalsport Wheels announced today that they have renewed their long-standing exclusive agreement with Foose Design.
Sam Foose left his in the form of the machines that he created and buried deep in the soul of a son that he loved and a son that loved him. We all leave a footprint on this Earth, some of us larger and deeper than others.
He built projects for the government to study safety upgrades in automobiles and all the while his Project Designs company was there, humming away on late nights and weekends, making the kinds of automotive magic that the majority of us in this would could only dream to create. Outside of his own custom car shop, Sam Foose worked with Gene Winfield to make life sized examples of the custom cars that the AMT model company dreamed up for their kits. Several years ago at SEMA we heard him comment in conversation that he, “Used to be Sam Foose…and now I’m Chip’s dad.” He followed it with a hearty laugh. It was all based off of the principles and skills he learned working side by side with him. We’d have to imagine that Sam was nothing but proud of the success that his son has achieved and will continue to achieve for years to come. Sam Foose was known for an animalistic work ethic, an eye for perfection, and the ability to craft anything from the wild Pantera based creation below to the shapely and beautiful “Foose Ford” that he constructed with Danny Lowe, enhancing the already beautiful lines of a 1949 Ford. Building custom cars through the 1970s and up through recent years, his business transitioned into a body shop when the custom car building money got thin. It was a way of life that was so deeply engrained in him that there was seemingly no way that his son Chip, a boy as fascinated with cars as Sam was during his childhood would escape it. His immense litany of skills were self taught, self hewn, and learned the old fashioned way…by doing. Rather than leaving, he literally took up residence in a friend’s garage and worked on cars to support himself. When his family decided to move away from Southern California in 1948 Foose was 15. His story and life were centered around cars.
Through Sam’s teaching and example his legacy will live on for decades and decades to come. Foose had spent decades in the world of car customizing, building, and hot rodding before his son came along. Earlier this week, Sam Foose, a very well known and respected custom car builder and the man who raised one of this generation’s true hot rodding super stars, Chip Foose passed away at 83 years old.
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