Long live to this incredible artist! I grew up watching overhaulin and I was always more excited to watch Chip making his art than the car being built. Keep it going Chip, much love!
Loved this did buy my firends old amazon 2 weeks ago after he passed away, going to rebuild it as close to as he wanted it going to be a modern retro build. Keeping the roof to its to rainy here in sweden not to have it
I think a Volvo wagon would make a great street car. It either needs a small block Chevy or even a V-6 ( I had a friend drop in a Buick V-6 into that exact old Volvo sedan) . Tubbing has gone out, so, I don't know how lowering would be. Those are both just fads that fade away anyway.
Chip Foose can put his hands on my 64' 122s anytime. It's already chopped as convertible and I'm in the middle of a swap now but I would love his Talent and skills on my build any day. I'm documenting it on my @luiselmilusos RU-vid channel. Perhaps I'll also upload it on this channel. Amazing as always Chip!
Funny!! I have said for many years now, that if I got a lot of money, I would want Chip Foose to make me a Volvo Amazon!! I'm thinking chopped roof and a wide body kit...
Maybe a Volvo P1800 is more suited for redesign, the Amazon has a very harmonic design, an aesthetic to it, that is hard to improve, very much like e.g. the Beetle and the Mini.
Does everyone notice that chip just does the same thing over and over again? Why not give it a different spin? I feel like all his car look absolutely the same. Take more artistic liberties
ive had two. i totaled my red daily 1967 amazon two years ago on my way to work. crashed into a tractor with bad tail lights in an early february morning. i was going 90 kmh. the tractor was going 30. i was completely fine because it only impacted on the right side. so naturally i bought another one😅. i also have a more long going project. a 1948 cadillac that im completely rewiring from the ground up all according to the schematics. it takes way longer than you would imagine XD
A volvo Amazon, 140 or 240 homemade cabriolet is called a "Kiruna cab" here in sweden. The doors were welded shut in order to keep the rigidity of the car.
Chip! There was a custom Amazon running around Northern Cali back in the late 80s. Chopped, nosed, decked, lowered- the whole 9 yards. He called it the Mini Merc.
We race a Volvo Amazon in the Carrera Panamericana. A 1965 122S. It's an excellent rally car and it never fails to turn heads. Fans love the look of it. At 4:06, when Chip looks through his reference photos, our Volvo, The Mzcalero, is the photo on the bottom left.
My brother and I had three of these cars built between 1967 and 1969. Road raced and a bit of rallying, and surprised a lot of American V8s in the hills and twists of New Brunswick Canada. You bring back happy memories.
Way back in the past mr Jaques Coune had a coach building company in Brussels, Belgium and he already made an Amazon Cabriolet in 1963. They are extremely collectible classics.
Hi Chip My Name Is Alexander If you think about Re - Designing a Volvo Amazon what will you compare with anther car what will it be? P.s "be Creative Mind"
The Chryslers were indeed inspiration! Many of us who own these think it was actually an ultimately more successful version of their designs. The proportions weren't as "American" from that period, which seems to have kept it feeling more balanced all this time. Still really turns heads out on the street. A kind of lovable design that isn't cartoonish. Thanks for the video!
Chip Foose is good, some of the best in the area! I miss seeing it on Discovery. But this time, I stayed with the original, this one is beautiful but not functional, at least until the always "perfect" roads. To walk on bumps and holes (depressions) is a round no! The bigger wheels take away much of the simplicity and elegance that are the Swedish models/design, especially in this case.
I always wanted one of these. Never found one to buy . Now i don't even drive anymore...shucks:( I was going to put that turbo 4cyl GM motor with 6 speed manual in it LOL...make it a go cart coupe heheheh. The simple design only needs a bit of clean up and thats about it.
Chip can please do my 1996 z34 monte carlo let your images go wild, sleek, simple, and racy. Then hopefully some one car turn it into the real thing. Thanks Mr. Foose.
Volvo never made a convertible version of this car because they had already started developing their forward thinking safety reputation beginning with the PV544 which was the predecessor to the Amazon. I was a little kid and my folks had two of these cars, a 1963 4 door and a 1968 2 door. We never called them "Amazons." To us, they were the "122." The headliners were of the suspension type and you could poke around on the headliner and feel the massive roll hoop over the B pillar that served as roll over protection in case of a crash. One of our Amazons met its end when my father flipped it end over end several times after going to sleep at the wheel late one night. He was wearing his 3-point seat belts - a real rarity on any car in those days and he walked away from the crash with a few bruises and that was it. We figured that Volvo saved his life.
I hear ya Chip. Everyone has that has a car or 3 that making too many body mods will just ruin the elegance of said car. Because it would be like removing things that made it look good in the 1st place. And yes, the Lil Amazon has the look of kinda like an old Gasser. Like a mini Studebaker Gasser.
Hey Chip, we talk time ago about us drawing cars on the last pages on our notebooks, one of the first best drawings I did was a P1800 Volvo, I consider that one my first really nice one. This one looks fantastic.
Chip - I have a 1967 Volvo coupe that I will lend you so you can create something spectacular. I’m in Los Angeles. I tried getting it on your show but no dice.
What a fantastic and artistic job you did on this volvo amazon. Real talent on display instead of the usual computer graphics stuff. What do you do with these drawings?? 👏👏👍
Very cool old Volvo design and Chip redesign. These 122s models were assembled in the Halifax Nova Scotia Plant in the early 60’s when the plant opened in 1963. 😎👍🇨🇦
Especially when he said at 0:59 that he’s not going to do the convertible and he’s staying with the coupe! I would have preferred to see how he would do the roof. Convertibles are cheesy.
