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.
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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. 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.
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