Chip Foose tweaks the design of the '70 Cuda

[e_body70]

Your thoughts....

[CudaMoparRay]

I respectfully disagree with Chip as I see the original 'Cuda as a work of perfect art 🖼 that needs no changes of that nature. At least for me.

[Cuda Cody]

That's a neat video.  And like Ray I think the original is a work of art, it's still neat seeing guys like Chip continue to work with these cars and keep the passion alive for them.    Thanks for sharing the video.

[JS29]

   Look what he did to that beautiful black gran coup. 

[anlauto]

Great video....thanks...
Not sure on his Jaguar door handles 

[7212Mopar]

Another one without side mirrors?

[Chryco Psycho]

I kinda agree , I have always questioned the roof line & !/4 window, why the sharp angle there ? Possibly the challenger trim & window would fit to modifiy it .
The longer wheelbase is subtle & looks OK , easy to miss the change I think , from a factory perspective it is a very difficult change moving all of the suspension forward while leaving the engine in place , no way I would add a complete chassis to a unibody car , unibody is more ridgid overall .
Door handles I completely disagree , Chrysler was trying to do something more modern with a flush door handle , it is one of the things I have always loved about the cars putting a stick on surface mount handle might be more sleek but a huge step back into the past , a flush thin horizontal lever would fit better maybe ...

[Cuda70-74]

Chip foose Terracuda

[IRON MAN]

The bathroom floor mat is missing a heel pad....but in the bathroom you wear slippers usually. What was the back seat area looks terribly old-fashioned. The wheels and tires belong on a late model Buick Regal. No posiitive comment on the rear graphics. Never been a fan of his disasters.

[toddnyc98]

I Hate the Chip Foose Terracuda; the color, the gigantic rims and the interior. 70' cuda is about as close to perfection as you can get in a car design.

[BFM_Cuda]

That shag floor mat is the worst....

[nsmall]

He said, "I want people to say why do I like that car more than I remember it"?  Bro, I respect your work, like your car, but you are not that good.  If you already don't like a stock 70 Cuda it's because you are.........I'm lost for words, can't even finish the sentence

[jringo8769]

I normally like Chip Foose styling and ideas but this one is not right...changing things to just make them different does not make it better...the interior is terrible and the seats are some of the worst looking and they are  way over used and truly takes away from the original design of the car when it was new
God Bless,John
Sometimes less is way more too

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[ClarkWGrizwald]

I have ALWAYS looked at the sharp edge on the quarter window and asked Wtf. It totally kills the line of the "c" pillar or what ever you would call that area.  If there was an easy fix I'd swap that in a heart beat. The other items chip points out I can see but never really stuck out to me as big deals. 

Additional things I think of are :
--the bumpers-- I like them tucked in tight.
--the rims: way too small
--tire width: way to narrow
-- the window trim front and rear- always have uneven gaps and look poorly designed/ poor fitment.
--AAR hoods always bent and distorted/ poor fitment.   
-- I wish the pinch weld wasn't so prominent. It's real big.


I realize this was 1970 and hindsight is 20/20. It's just what they had in the day.  And I have and always will think the 1970 cuda is the most beautiful car I've ever seen and it's my all time favorite ever. But the above are some obvious tweaks that today I'd say are areas that id tweak on a personal build of mine.  (Not much I can do with the pinch weld besides lower the car and flat black them) .

Chip is an amazing artist and I do enjoy his designs.  I don't like the terracuda, but i love Joe rogans "sick fish". Chip drew the rendering for that car and the paint scheme and troy T  built it. That car is perfection to me.  Though I wish they would have actually put the supercharger on it. I'd have liked to see the paint done the way chip drew it out just so I could see it in person to judge it but even in silver....its bad ass.  How they blend the lower doors and quarter body color into black to make the car look lower and thinner just is incredible and effective. 

If I had a shell of a cuda that wasn't valuable id love to tub the shit out of it and slam it to the ground like a gt40 / viper and do all these tweaks.  The original was great but you can make a 70 into a MEAN looking beast of a muscle car.  Id love to have BOTH!  Excuse me while i go buy some lotto tickets.....



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[anlauto]

Regarding the Terracuda, the body mods he describes in the video certainly look nice, but why the heck did he destroy the entire "flow" of the car with that butt-ass ugly butt stripe? Id rather see the box door handles left in place then that stripe...