Real "garage find" Barris custom from 1958, revitalized by Foose and crew, now a driver.

[Ace-Garageguy]

 

[R. Thorne]

My 53 Olds at Indy in 1971 and my friend Jack Mullins’s 53.

[bamadon]

The Barris Olds brings back memories of the little Car Craft Magazine.

[peter31a]

I've been following this series of Your Tube videos since the first one introducing the car. It has been very interesting seeing the respect with which Foose has treated the car.

[Ace-Garageguy]

9 minutes ago, peter31a said:

I've been following this series of Your Tube videos since the first one introducing the car. It has been very interesting seeing the respect with which Foose has treated the car.

Glad you mentioned that.

There seem to be a fair few people who don't like Foose for some reason that I've never been able to understand.

I've met the guy, and besides being as nice as he could be, he's a gifted and skilled artist / illustrator / designer, and knows his stuff doing the demanding and precise physical work that is custom-car building.

The respectful treatment he gave this old Barris job makes me like and respect him that much more.

 

[Mark]

I don't get the people slagging on Foose.  The cars done on his TV show were light years ahead of the "flames and skulls" stuff done on most of the other drama fests.  His dad was (is?) Sam Foose, a somewhat well-known customizer in his own right.  Sam worked for Gene Winfield at the short-lived AMT Speed & Custom operation in Phoenix, where they built some TV cars.  If I remember right, he built the Get Smart Sunbeam, worked on the full size Star Trek shuttle, and a '31 Chevy roadster that transformed into a Camaro convertible for a TV show.

Chip Foose was a designer for Boyd Coddington, and was asked to run the wheel company after it went bankrupt (that's where the split between the two originated).  Of all the TV show guys, there aren't many I'd hire to build a car for me, but he'd be on the short list.

[rattle can man]

I can respect his work, but I'm just not a fan of his style. 

[oldcarfan]

I always liked Chip Foose. He comes off as a decent guy unlike a lot of the other builders who had a show. And most of his designs I like, which is rare for me.

[oldcarfan]

This car reminds me of when I was little, I had an uncle who had a big collection of the 'Little Page' custom magazines and he let me have them. They were old and yellowed, but I spent many a hot and humid Texas coast summer in my bedroom reading those. Sure wish I still had them, but I lost them when I joined the Navy and my stuff got packed up.

[Sledsel]

At least he did not screw it up.........