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 Posted 11/1/2005 4:43:13 PM |
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Has NO LIFE!!
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Nate, that just proves it, you are really Chip Foose. Please Overhaul my car.... please. Nate did you build your 66?
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| Posted 11/1/2005 5:39:18 PM |
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Yes and no.
I bought the body  from Don, and paid him to mount it on the lincoln I had tracked down and got at an LAX auction. Before He started on the Lincoln I rebuilt the motor and swapped out a lot of parts  (also with help.) Then over a few years I custom made all of the dash  (except the working roll tops) and tracked down stuff, did all of the electrical. Built the detectascope, reworked and installed some of the stuff Don had done, had custom metal parts (front knife, dash face, other dash items) made at an aircraft aluminum shop. Then I hit a wall as I was tracking down new windshields, trying to find the right painter, and working out some problems. That's when I met Mark T.  and he was gearing up to be a batmobile dealership, and he solved most all of the problems I had left, so I hired him to do a bunch of finish work and the paint. He was buying raiders in multiple sets, so he bought and installed the rims. I had a set of steel wheel bats I had my dad make, but after a little driving two of them had bent out the center caps (they needed a washer in back, but even with that they were HEAVY) so I had the prop dept here at Paramount make a new set, and they are great. My dad tried to improve Don's beacon cage but ended up kinda screwing it up, so he felt bad and we worked together with yet another metal shop to have that made. I worked with a propane dealer  to design and set up the rear flame and keep it safe. Shot it off a lot before meeting mark,that was fun, then mark glassed my turbine to the car and did some great finish work (lots of sanding!)
I think I was more like a job foreman who also did a lot of the work. I hired out the reupholstery of the chairs, after finding thunderbird seats and parts I liked in a junkyard for classics, Pep boys put on a new set of FUTURA wheels to replace some used rubber mark had put on... I tore off my antenna detectascope thingy with a car cover, and had to rebuild that with the help of some other guys... hand crafted stuff I couldn't find etc. I hired a lot of talented fabricators to make the car I wanted, but only when I couldn't do it myself due to lack of tools or talent or both!
so as Barris says, Yeah, I built it!
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| Posted 11/1/2005 5:46:11 PM |
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Yep you built it. The stress alone qualifies you as a builder. it looks great and I bet is a blast to drive. How about a "how to" build log with tons of pictures?
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| Posted 11/1/2005 6:01:52 PM |
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| Posted 11/1/2005 6:07:02 PM |
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| Posted 11/1/2005 6:17:37 PM |
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Yipee-ki-yay...
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Yes, that's Chip Foose on the right. You are the one on the left... I think.
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| Posted 11/1/2005 11:43:36 PM |
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| Wait; I thought that Chip was on the left and Nate was on the right?
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| Posted 11/2/2005 2:28:31 AM |
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Yipee-ki-yay...
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| Chips right or Nates right?
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| Posted 11/2/2005 9:22:38 AM |
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Damm, I am so confused??
Nate; I love what you did to your cave, It looks great. I notice you even have a bat compressor. You clearly have to much time on your hands.
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