''0032'' is a
custom-built
1932 Ford
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roadster built by
Chip Foose for Chuck Svatos. It won the 2000
America's Most Beautiful Roadster award.
History
''0032'' started life as a
Hot Rods by Boyd
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project,
''Boydster II''. After Hot Rods by Boyd went
bankrupt, the car was taken in hand by Foose. It was repainted black, over the original yellow, reupholstered, and entered in the
2000
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. It won that year's America's Most Beautiful Roadster award.
As built, the car rode on a set of Foose's custom-designed five-spoke knockoff wheels, one of only two sets to exist (the other used on his
Ridler-winner,
''The Stallion''), as
"big'n'little"s: in front, in back.
''0032'' was Foose's first project as an independent operator.
[Geisert, Eric. "Ron Whiteside's Ridler Winner", in ''Street Rodder'', July 2003, p.80.]
Notes
External links
Foose bio
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