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WE SHOULD CELEBRATE SUCCESS W
e were lucky enough to catch up with one of the most well-known names in the modified car world this month. Chip Foose really needs no introduction. But, as you’ll see in our interview elsewhere in this issue, despite how well known he is and the various accolades that he’s received, he’s pretty much just a down-to-earth car guy like most others. I was fortunate enough to figure this out a few years back when we were catching the same flight out of Las Vegas after the SEMA Show and we sat chatting in the departure lounge. If I didn’t recognize his face, all I would have known was that he’d built a couple of cars, such is his modesty. Due to population alone, the difference between the New Zealand modified car scene and the American modified car scene is massive, which makes getting to the level of fame of someone like Foose both more and less likely. I say less likely in the way that with so many people, it’s harder to stand out from the masses, but, on the flipside, there’s the snowball effect, that, once you’re known, you’re exponentially more known. This, of course, is what happened with Chip once the Overhaulin’ TV show exploded onto screens all around the globe. As New Zealand is so small in comparison, the talent pool is obviously smaller, as is the number of people with the financials necessary and the inclination to build cars to such an elite level. But there’s no question
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that Kiwis have the craftsmanship and ability to do so — so what’s missing? Why are there no Jonah Lomus or Richie McCaws of the car-building world in New Zealand? Or are there, and we just don’t celebrate their successes enough? I think the answer is threefold. One key factor is the good old Kiwi tall-poppy syndrome, where we’d rather pick holes in other people’s achievements than encourage them. This creates the second factor: that some people whose achievements do stand out try to hide from the limelight (perhaps in part due to New Zealand being so small), and, thirdly: we’ve not really had a regular series of high-end shows to have encouraged builds of this level (I can hear the tall-poppy choppers cringe as I say this and moan about all the so-called trailer queens around — but I’ll correct those misconceptions another day). The CRC Speedshow — for which Foose was brought to New Zealand by the team at 3M — is rapidly solving this last issue, having become the place to debut new builds. So, now, all we need to do is start celebrating people’s successes rather than picking holes in them, and we’ll create a culture where car builders can be looked up to … Food for thought? Catch you next month.
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44: THEY CALL HIM CHIP WE MEET A LEGEND
52: SPEEDY SUCCESS
THE BEST OF CRC SPEEDSHOW
70: FULLY FUELLED BURGERFUEL’S NEW RIDES
74: LURE OF THE SWAP MEET THE THRILL, THE HUNT, THE ANGUISH
98: DREAM SHED
BUSINESS MEETS PLEASURE
104: POWER-TO-WEIGHT
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FEATURE 1970 DODGE CHALLENGER CAR
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WE’VE ALL SEEN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN COSMETIC SURGERY GOES BAD, BUT HERE’S PROOF THAT SOMETIMES A LITTLE NIP AND TUCK CAN BE SUCCESSFUL
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FEATURE 2015 CHEV CORVETTE Z06 CAR
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ONE MAN’S QUEST TO EXCEED 500KPH HAS RESULTED IN A TEAM-BUILT, DEDICATED SALT-FLAT MONSTER
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ave you ever wanted to go fast? Like really fast? Stu Goldsworthy has, but, rather than just dream it, he’s gone all out to achieve it. “First and foremost, the inspiration came from racing legend Burt Munro and the The World’s Fastest Indian, and the dream evolved from there,” Stu claims. That’s not to say he simply woke up one day and decided he was going to take the plunge into the bottomless pit of land-speed-record attempts. No, he’s long been just the right type of mentally unhinged to play with fast cars and motorbikes, and, growing up around bad influences like Paul Manuell, he was never going to live life in the slow lane. Life’s journey saw Stu end up being mates with motorcycle racer Andrew Stroud, and, through Stroud’s time on the legendary Britten motorbike,
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INTERVIEW CHIP FOOSE
INTERVIEW: TODD WYLIE PHOTOS: NZV8/SUPPLIED
Thanks to 3M, we got to sit down with Chip Foose to talk life, cars, Overhaulin’, and everything in between
NZV8: It’s great that 3M has brought you out here; it must have been around 2005 that you were last in New Zealand? Chip Foose: I’m not quite sure of the year; it was a busy trip, though. We toured New Zealand and then we shipped the cars to Australia. The rest of the group went to Australia to do a few car shows up there, and I flew home to do Overhaulin’, which we are doing again now.
can’t teach taste; you either have it or you don’t. It’s funny, we could both go to the same car show and not be together and come back and say ‘Did you see this car?’ ‘Did you see this car’, and they were all the same ones. Or a customer could come up and ask me what I would do to their car sitting there, and I’d say, ‘Well, I’d do this, this, and this’, and give them a colour, and my dad would give them the same advice.
Going back way before Overhaulin’, can you tell us about the start of your career — it came around through your dad, Sam? Yes, my dad was my hero. To this day, he’s still my hero. We lost him in November, unfortunately, but I consider that my career is an extension of his. I learned a lot of my taste from my father, and you
Do you think that that’s because you’ve learned it from him, or is it just instinct? Instinct; we both saw the same thing. As a designer, you see things that you want to change or make alterations to, but it’s also a curse, because you can also look at a brand-new car, or buy a brand-new car, and, instead of enjoying this beautiful nice
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brand-new car … all you see is the things you want to change, and you just focus on that; it drives you crazy until you get a chance to fix it. Is it true that you crashed your dad’s truck the first time you drove it? The ’56 pickup that Bud Brutsman, the producer of Overhaulin’, stole from my shop then called my dad in to run the 'A-Team', and they built for me, that’s the same truck that my dad owned. When I was 12 years old, he taught me how to drive, and I ran right into the front end of a Rolls-Royce that was parked in front of the shop. Yes, it is true. I have that grille hanging over the office door in my shop. You go through the workshop to get into the office, and it’s hanging there as my reminder that everything can go wrong real quick.
As a designer, you see things that you want to change … but it’s also a curse
How about the next generation — now your own kids are growing up, will they follow in your footsteps? My son Brock is 19; he’s at Chapman University studying film and wants to be a director. I think he actually wants to be an actor, but he’s telling my wife and me that he wants to be a director. He’s talented and where he wants to be. He loves cars; he drives a Mustang and it’s got Foose wheels and he wants to do some more alterations, but I never once told him, “Bring your car to the shop and I’ll do it”, because my dad never made any modifications to my car for me — until he did the truck on Overhaulin’. He allowed me to do the alterations and helped me, and that’s the same thing I’ve done with Brock. If he wants to come to the shop and make alterations to his car, I’ll work with him and we’ll do it.
This ties in to the artistic side of your family history — you ended up at art school, but only because your wife said you had to get a degree, correct? Yes, we’d been dating for a year and a half. I went halfway through school and left; I started my own business and was working for a couple of different companies in Santa Barbara, doing design work. The subject of marriage came up one evening, and she said, “Well, I’m not going to marry you.” So I said, “Then why are you with me?” She said, “Because you have potential.” I said, “OK, what does that mean?” She had graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and she said, “I have a college degree and I want my spouse to have a college degree. So, if you graduate from ArtCenter or anywhere, I could consider us getting married.”
I had some work at Asha Corporation, and we’d done some work for Prince Corporation in Holland, Michigan. They were trying to hire me away from Asha, and I called them up and said, “OK, make me a serious offer.” They made me an offer, and, with it, I figured I could go to work for them, save my money for three years, and have enough money to get to ArtCenter and graduate. So, I accepted their offer and told my boss I was leaving. He asked me why and I told him the whole story. He said, “Don’t go to Prince. I’ll send you to school and I’ll pay for it, and you give me three years after you graduate.” A month later, I was back at school. When I graduated, my senior project was the project that became the Plymouth Prowler for Chrysler. I came back to Asha, but I had 14 job offers and a lot of doors opened; I met a lot of people and ended up doing a few professional internships with car companies doing design work as a consultant through Asha. When I left Asha and went to work for Boyd Coddington, I kept those same relationships. When Boyd's went bankrupt in 1998, I worked with those companies as a consultant.
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FEATURE 1972 FORD XA FAIRMONT (DJR XC COBRA REPLICA) CAR
WORDS: CONNAL GRACE PHOTOS: RICHARD OPIE
IT MAY BE AN XA MASQUERADING AS AN XC, BUT PHILIP MACEY’S FALCON ISN’T JUST PRETENDING TO BE A DROP-DEAD GORGEOUS TRACK WEAPON
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HELLANOR IS COMING T
he team from Pro Touring Garage in East Tamaki, Auckland, have a great sense of style, as seen in Llew Picton’s awesome Camaro ‘NASTY9’, which we featured back in Issue No. 163. The theory behind this 1967 Eleanor Mustang build wasn’t to have something quite as mint, but something that seemed to have been blown out already. What was purchased as a complete and road-going car has now been stripped right back to the shell for a ground-up build, with Ditron Precision doing much of the custom CNC and fabrication work. The key piece of this build is a Nelson Racing Engines twin-turbo 428ci engine. These engines should need no introduction, with Tom Nelson being the master of horsepower. Of course, with 1500 ponies, a serious driveline was needed, which the guys have taken care of in the form of a Bowler Transmissions Stage 2 T56 manual box and Centerforce Dyad twin-disc clutch.
To get this power to the ground, the car has been mini-tubbed and a Detroit Speed four-link fitted. The front end follows this theme, with a complete Detroit Speed front clip.
The project’s been dubbed ‘Hellanor’, and it certainly looks to be living up to its name! We’ll bring you more updates as the build develops.
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n April 1990, at the tender age of 17, Mel Tabener bought her first car: a 1972 VH Valiant Charger. “She was my daily-driver until she got stolen while
I was at work on 27 March 1991,” Mel recalls. “Thankfully, I got her back the very next day, minus my wheels and a few other parts.” Since then, the car has been kept tucked away
under lock and key, with Mel knowing that one day it would be back on the road again. That journey began in October 2011, when Mel started stripping her down. “All I have ever wanted to do is to restore her myself,” Mel explains, “and, under the advice and guidance of my dad, who is a mechanic, almost eight years later, it’s almost complete. I have fully rebuilt the brakes, rebuilt the transmission, swapped out the 265 for a 318 V8, replaced every bush in the suspension, replaced the shocks, built my exhaust from scratch, and started prepping her for paint.” Once finished, there won’t be a nut or bolt on the car that hasn’t been replaced, or removed and reinstalled. Along the way, Mel’s kept a detailed record of the build — so detailed that it consumes 13 individual scrapbooks. “I still have a long way to go to get her back on the road, but I take every opportunity I can to work on her during the weekends and any time I take annual leave from work. Over the years, I’ve looked forward to Mother’s Day, Christmas, and my birthday, as these are all a great excuse to buy parts — although my kids and husband might have something to say about that!” she laughs.
EARLY ’60S SENSATION T
he team at Bad Penny are deep into the build of a ’54 Chev belonging to Brendan Everett. The car arrived dressed in satin black with a gloss black roof, but Brendan’s goal of creating an early ’60s style of build soon saw that change. Under the newly painted hood is a McCulloch supercharged 235ci Blue Flame Six topped
with triple carbs and backed with a ’55–’56 overdrive transmission. As with many other hot sixes to come out of Bad Penny, it’s running triple carbs on an Offenhauser manifold with a split Fenton exhaust manifold leading into custom-made rear bumper overrider exhaust tips. All going to plan, by the time you read this, the car will be back on the road and turning heads.
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