![]() ![]() C/D: What do you think of things like the Porsche 911 Reimagined by Singer? CF: It’s great that they’ve made a business out of that. C/D: What’s the upside to fame and fortune? CF: I wouldn’t say that I’ve made a fortune, but the upside is that a lot of people want to work with you. I’m sad that I don’t get to share those moments with my son and share the passion that we have for cars. Which I don’t mind doing, but it breaks my heart that some of my favorite memories with my dad are walking around shows and looking at all these different cars and talking about them. It’s not fun for him to stand there when everyone wants to take a picture or get an autograph. How is that to deal with? CF: The biggest downfall about the success of Overhaulin’ is that I just can’t take my son and enjoy a car show. I don’t care what the underneath is as long as I get to be creative and build something no one has ever seen before. C/D: Could you hot-rod something like a Tesla? CF: I don’t think it’s impossible. That’s how they used to build them back in the ’20s and the ’30s. I would love to find a chassis and design and build my own body. C/D: Is there something you’d like to build? CF: What has really been on my mind a lot is that I want to build a Duesenberg. It will look like an original Cadillac until you look underneath. Last night, I was in the shop until one in the morning fabricating on Wes Rydell’s ’39 Cadillac that we’re building. C/D: Are you going into the shop every day? Or are you spending more time on designs? CF: That’s the great thing about this job. C/D: Have you learned how to protect yourself from that? CF: Well, I married an attorney. I can say that just about everything I made on Overhaulin’ was spent there. When he didn’t deliver cars, people came after me. All I did was a drawing, and I was supposed to collect a royalty when he sold or delivered a car. CF: How did you know I was thinking of them? That was a nightmare. C/D: Unique Performance in Texas, which collapsed in 2007, had a license to build ’69 Camaros under your name. C/D: What is the pitfall of licensing your name? CF: You’re not in control of what someone else is doing to your reputation. As a builder you’re thinking, “We’ve got to push the envelope,” and that’s not what it’s about now. The way they’ve done the judging, your guess is as good as anybody’s about what you need to build. What I'd Do Differently: Chip Foose In 2015, the hot-rod designer whose cars have won eight AMBR awards and four Detroit Autorama Ridler awards finished his ninth and final season of Overhaulin' JULY 2016 BY JOHN PEARLEY HUFFMAN PHOTOS From the August 2016 issue C/D: So which is better: the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster (AMBR) or the Ridler award? CF: Boy, that’s getting political, isn’t it? The difficult thing with the AMBR award right now is that there’s no target on the wall about what you need to build. ![]() It seems that tow truck guy who took Mat’s truck is actually the leader of a car thief ring!Mat thinks he’s never going to see his beloved pickup truck ever again.Road and Track's John Pearly Huffman takes a few moments to hear what friend and MagnaFlow ambassador Chip Foose has to say about what he would do differently. Eagle Scout Mat has never gotten a ticket in his life but with some help from his father Jim, as our insider, away goes Mat’s truck to our Overhaulin’ garage.And little does Mat know but we’ve got Nascar driver Robby Gordon helping the A Team out, too! Chip Foose, our Overhaulin’ A Team leader, starts designing the plans for one amazing search and rescue vehicle while we continue to play a few more tricks on unsuspecting Mat. ![]() And we need to get a hold of that truck! Our host Chris Jacobs poses as a tow truck operator who comes to Mat’s house to tow away the truck because straight-as-an-arrow Mat has too many parking tickets. Mat’s dad, Jim, contacted the Overhaulin’ A team because he would like Mat, who is always doing nice things for others, to have something nice done for him for a change. He also drives his grandfather’s old ’88 Chevy pickup truck that’s seen better days. Les princes du tuning – Saison 1 Épisode 1Īperçu: Mat Mershimer is a straight ‘A’ high school student, volunteers in search and rescue and is an Eagle Scout. ![]()
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