He bought it when he was 17, he and Elma drove it on their honeymoon to Disneyland. We thought we were something because none of his other friends had cars."
"My father was very insistent that if I was going to have a car, I had to pay for it myself," he said.Īdded his wife, "Don bought that car originally for $2,000 cash. The Voths have an emotional attachment to the model: It was the first car Don owned and the car he had when they first met. "He insisted on having my wife included because he felt, for a good marriage, you both have to be involved." "He got to know us, our interests," he said. It's unlike anything else out there, and that's exactly what Don Voth wanted. One of their dreams was to win the Ridler and we just did it."
"Our goal is to make every dream that they have come true. "We're not building our dream car, we're building Don and Elma's dream car," said Foose. Foose and his team at Huntington Beach, California-based Foose Design took the '65 Impala and harvested parts from it to create a smaller and shorter version on a Corvette frame. "The Imposter," which was competing in the "radical hardtop" category during the three-day show at Cobo Center, is owned by Don and Elma Voth of Abbotsford, British Columbia.
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The designer who gained a legion of fans through his Discovery Channel TV show "Overhaulin' " took home the Ridler award at the 63rd annual Maguiar's Detroit Autorama for his 1965 Chevrolet Impala built on a 2008 Corvette frame.ĭubbed "The Imposter" because of the mix, the car caught the eyes and the imagination of both attendees and judges.įoose and his design team "don't just think outside the box," said David Gutierrez, who was showing a dragster with MGM Racing. Watch Video: Chip Foose on his 4th Ridlerįor the fourth time in the last 13 years, famed car designer Chip Foose took home the top prize at America's premier custom and hot rod car show.
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