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Ending up the tour was the shop where the Hemisfear Foose Coupes are assembled. The heavy is owned by Detroit Casino mogul Gregg Solomon and packs a Hemi along with LX-platform running gear grafted in place of the original '60s-era suspension. Looking like the car Green Hornet had was a Foose designed 1966 Chrysler Imperial. These bodies feature the strength to stand up to 300 mph, yet weigh only 104 pounds. An autoclave the size of a Zeppelin stood in wait for the carbon fiber Funny Car bodies being assembled by hand. Complete and in progress concept cars appeared and disappeared. An entire building stuffed with Italian machinery and craftsmen whose sole purpose is to manufacture glass for aerospace and automobiles. CNC machines churning out automotive jewelry. With every turn on the production floor came the wonder we spoke of earlier. We were then instructed by a large man in a pinstripe suit squeezing a lemon peel into his espresso, that there were things that could not be photographed.
Working out the design of the car digitally using Catia V5 allows the various sub-assemblies of the car needed to be constructed individually for production assembly. The body parts lowest to the ground are serviceable in case of ground contact or damage, as Foose himself interjected. The central mounted radiator and how it gets air though low pressure air path venting. Coolant tubes running through a structural conduit. There the Hemisfear Foose Coupe spun about on a computer screen, showing detials of every system and subsystem. Metalcrafters builds many of the concept cars we feature here at Jalopnik, and has been doing so since 1979. Once at Metalcrafters George Gaffoglio rolled a video of the Chrysler Me412 Concept fabrication condensed down to four minutes. The whirlwind Foose Design tour wrapped quickly and the caravan headed over to Fountain Valley - home of the Metalcrafters. Even 'Vannin was represented by a flared fender and slot magged Chevy out front. Vintage Go Karts were hanging from the walls and an even older bumper car sat out front of Foose's office. Foose said as it turns out one of the only Drake engine specialists in the country had a shop right around the corner in Huntington Beach. A car under construction sat with a Meyer-Drake DT160 in the middle of the chassis. An upside down 'Cuda was getting ground on a rotissere. A Morrison-Chassied 54 'Vette in in the lay in beginning stages in the paint booth. Let it be said now that Chip Foose clearly enjoys his work, and clearly has plenty of work in progress. This suit will run you a shade over 300 large.įirst stop on the tour was Foose Design World Headquarters. "Buying the Foose Coupe will be like buying a fine suit as it will be made to order," said George Gaffoglio, Chief Executive Officer of Gaffoglio Family Metalcrafters. Air conditioning, power windows, and the usual luxury items are also part of the deal. Whoa comes from a massive set of Foose labeled Baer brakes. The car rides on a suspension designed specifically for the coupe by John Hotchkis of Hotchkis Sport Suspension. Gear rowing will be by way of a ZF 5-speed. Power comes from to a 392 cubic inch Hemi sporting Hilborn Injection, or available Ford GT powerplant mounted amidships. The Hemisfear Foose Coupe scales in at a mere 2600 pounds thanks to a composite construction of alumininum, carbon fiber und schteel. Originally an exercise in niche market design for Chrysler, the Hemisfear Foose Coupe is now in limited production at the Gaffoglio Family Metalcrafters, and will be sold through Unique Performance. The Hemisfear Foose Coupe is the end result of a design first penned when Foose was still at Art Center College of Design in 1990. Burgess would get a tour of both Foose Design and Metalcrafters, then work with the pair to hash out exactly how he wanted his coupe constructed. The occasion was being invited to tag along as Chip Foose and George Gaffoglio of Metalcrafters welcomed car collector Roger Burgess, who was the proud winner of recent auction of the Hemisfear Foose Coupe.
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