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The Magnatude: Car Chip Foose

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Magnatude is a customized 1932 Muroc roadster that was sold by Kugel Komponets (Completed Builds). This vehicle was loosely based on the Boydster II, which Chip designed in the start of his career working for Boyd Coddington (Completed Builds). The Magnatude was a production car but only twenty were made; ten with fenders and ten without fenders (Completed Builds). (Figure 1 Magnatude) This rare vehicle is equipped with a Magnacharge Supercharger LS1 V-8 engine (Completed Builds). (Figure 2 Magnatude) The Magnatude is a beautiful roadster that has a classic two tone paint job with a modern twist; which Chip Foose is known to do on a lot of on his cars. With the large supercharged engine and custom suspension, the Magnatude out preforms the …show more content…
The owner of the car, Darren Metropoulos, asked Chip to build a car with the same colors as his Breitlng Watch which has some distinctive gold and brown tones (Completed Builds). (Figure 7 Terracuda) The Terrcuda gets its name from the car it started out as with Foose utilizing a stock 1970 Barracuda where he utilized the unibody car and customized a frame (Biography). (Figure 1 Terracuda) The hood was also custom as it was molded and stamped in order to fit the 392 HEMI crate engine they put in it (Biography). (Figure 2 Terracuda) Foose held the interior to the same caliper of excellence and creativity as the exterior. The bench seat was turned into a two-seater which was constructed from Ferrari factory root-beer brown leather with gold accents (Completed Builds). (Figure 4 Terracuda) The car has gold racing stripes down the center of the car as an homage to the original 1970’s cars. (Figure 3&5 Terracuda) The Terracuda was finished with its own special logo with the styling of the Super Bee circular insignia of Mopar. Chip puts a lot of time into creating cars which is demonstrated through his efforts of painting parts almost no one will ever see. (Figure 6

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