Sweepstakes Of The Month: Win a 2022 Corvette C8.R IMSA GTLM Championship Edition. Check out Chip Foose’s Facebook page for build photos and completed photos of the award-winning ‘Imposter.’ The ’65 Impala was competing in the radical hardtop category at the weekend-long automotive expo, which celebrates its 63 rd anniversary this year. 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. Designed and built by Chip Foose, this 65 Impala is really a custom body sitting on top of a Corvette C6 chassis. “We’re not building our dream car, we’re building Don and Elma’s dream car,” Foose said. Don Voth first acquired the car when he was 17 and has driven himself and his wife around in it ever since, even driving it to Disneyland on their honeymoon. It uses multiple Corvette parts and a Corvette powertrain, but retains its retro looks on the outside, for the most part.Īccording to The Detroit News, the Imposter is owned by Don and Elma Voth of Abbotsford, British Columbia. The Impala has been significantly shortened and rides on a 2008 C6 Corvette frame, giving it the ‘Imposter’ name. The well-known designer was given the coveted Ridler Award for his work on the custom Chevy, which he’s dubbed ‘The Imposter’. It does not store any personal data.A Chip Foose-built 1965 Chevrolet Impala has taken home top honors at Detroit’s annual Autorama hot rod show.
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The roof is now 1.25 inches lower and eight inches shorter, the deck lid is seven inches shorter, the windshield was laid down 2.5 inches, the bumpers were hand-made, and the rear wheel wells are raised two inches and pulled forward seven inches. If you’re ever shopping CanadaWheels.ca and you cannot find your exact desire, make sure you contact us. A quick run-down shows that, to make this work, the Corvette platform was stretched seven inches and the Impala was shortened 14 inches. Of course, the Impala body didn’t remain the same either. Both vehicles will be released by Revell as all new model kits in late 2016, providing the markets first authentic scale replicas of the two winners. Then it was immediately brought back to the garage and completely stripped to start prepping for its new coat. When the Imposter was given the green light, Voth went to a dealership to buy a brand new C6. This project was the result of Foose and his customer Don Voth contemplating a simple question: “What if Chevy’s Corvette division had made a muscle car in 1965?” The company already had the Corvette, and it already had the Impala SS model, so what would have happened if they made one to fill the gap? This is Foose’s vision of how that would have turned out. Foose recently celebrated 30 years of design at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, so I drove down to check it out and get some photos of this wild animal. It is a 100 percent customized 1965 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport with the skeleton of a 2008 C6 Chevrolet Corvette. For those who haven’t heard of this guy before, this is the Chip Foose Design Chevrolet Imposter. Say hello to the 1965 Impala 'Imposter', a project that took quite a while to complete and won the 2015 Ridler Award at the annual Autorama in Detroit, Chip's 4th.