#CHIP FOOSE ARTWORK FOR SALE PROFESSIONAL#
He’s an immensely talented, hands-on professional designer and builder, and his popular Velocity Channel TV show, “Overhaulin’,” which returned in late 2012, is a must-watch for a legion of enthusiasts.Ĭhip’s dad, Sam Foose, is an acknowledged custom-car craftsman, and he taught Chip the arts of welding, painting and metal finishing and mechanical work. When you commission Ridler Award and multiple Grand National Roadster Show AMBR trophy-winning builder and television personality Chip Foose to build your personal custom creation, you’d better have a blank check ready to go.įoose is one of the hot-rod world’s genuinely nice guys. But it probably represents about one-third of the cost of building this one-off custom. This 1956 Chevrolet 210 Custom Foose Roadster, Lot 659.1, sold for $165,000, including buyer’s premium, at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Las Vegas on September 20–22, 2012.Īt first glance, $165,000 seems like a lot of money for a ’56 Chevrolet convertible. Pad on front of the block under the passenger’s side headīoyd Coddington-built custom, John D’Agostino-built custom, Rick Dore-built customī (But you’ll have to wait a few decades)
Chevrolet did not make a Model 210 convertible in 1956 but a ’56 Bel Air convertible with standard shift was $2,344