They did a '64 Dynamic 88.

Usually I like Chip Foose designs, but I think the car didn't end up matching the art rendition very well. I also didn't like the wheels very much and think they should have lowered the car farther.

I do like how they modified the trim on the door panels though. I thought that looked pretty good.

They also put some pretty sweet parts on the car - 4 wheel Baer disc brakes, adjustable rear link bars, Offy tri-power intake, etc.

What do you guys think?

 

I just got a price frome Baer Brakes after I seen the show and those brakes will set you back over $5000.00 for all 4 corners.

 

I agree. The wheels themselves weren't really that bad, but they don't match with the car well. Lowered with a little nose-down rake would have looked better.

KQQLCAT, I bet the brakes didn't cost Foose $5K

 

That's just nuts!

Heck no! All the suppliers supply their stuff to the show at no cost in exchange for product placement and endorsements.

It makes you wonder how far in advance these builds are planned. I wonder if they also pick cars based on parts availability. I don't know if Baer already had a brake kit for these cars already designed and engineered, but somehow I doubt it.

A couple of other things I noticed that I forgot to mention in my original post. Was it me or did it seem like Chip really wasn't that into the Dynamic 88? It just seems like he wasn't that enthusiastic about it.

Also, did you guys notice how much trouble (bitching) the guys had when taking the car apart? I think that says something about the build quality of these cars. It took them way longer than the typical 2-3 hours it usually takes them to rip apart a Chevy.

I also wondered why they left the body on the frame when doing the body resto, *then* pulled the frame out from under it after the paint work was done. Normally they pull the body off before doing the body work.

And why did they remove the paint with paint stripper saying the body was too fragile for media blasting? Where they afraid of warping all the straight panels by the blasting or???

Michael

 

I am glad to see others are noticing these things as well. I thought it was just me.

 

My guess is the body was too big and too heavy and they didn't want to disassemble it that far.
It stands to reason that if the body is solid to begin with, it doesn't really need to blasted. That process is primarily for cleaning metal to the condition where it can be repaired. If the metal is solid, simple paint removal (chemical stripping or similar) is all that's needed to prepare the body for paint.

 

To give you a straight forward answer to your original question - NO, I didn't see it! LOL

 

Well, IMHO you didn't miss much. I was rather disappointed by the show.

 

What was up with the reveal? At night? With a bunch of people standing around? Usually they shown off the car and e Rey little detail. This time it was like, "the car is done, thanks for watching, goodnight"! Just seemed strange on how they usually reveal their cars.

 

It did not seem drivable when they revealed it. I bet that it took some time to tune these carbs and old slimjim tranny. I agree, color is nice but wheels, interior and stance are wrong. When the host said: "Chip just nails the stance..." I was like... What???