Reimagining the iconic Jaguar E-type | Chip Foose Draws a Car - Ep.5

Chip Foose transforms the classic Jaguar E-type coupe into a streetwise sports car with even sleeker design elements.
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[@urockitony2]

I just enjoy watching Chip draw! Thanks for doing more of these.

[@fatbastard667]

Same here. I don't always like the end result. But I always learn something new.

[@St_McC_Sloth]

I really love sitting and watching designers do things like this, I find it really interesting....I’m not sure how anyone think this is an improvement on the original Design. To my eye it looks like an E-Type in Americana spec, it removes the sleek compact look of the original and adds a land yacht style to the car in a way the Nissan Z cars almost added Japanese elements to the design.

[@robvanza]

From a more old Brittish look to a more sleek roadster design. I've been in love with E-Types since school days and thought it was going to be a mess redoing it, but I love it! If I had the money I'll let him build me one tomorrow!

[@St_McC_Sloth]

Robert that’s fair enough, I think if I was looking something a bit more chrome filled and bigger as they’ve made it, I’d either go for an old R107SL or an XJC! Not a bad decision to make though! 👍🏻

[@Astonvman007]

Man, I could watch Chip design for hours! There's an elegance about the lines and color of each piece.

[@janmartens7954]

Damn, the guy stays good.... and very polite

[@rhysbfield5486]

I think it looks gorgeous. To be honest, it sort of looks like an XK8 with e type trim. Love the redesign.

[@toasterweeklydigestinc.861]

🌺This is the only guy on the planet who can draw a car and think he's benefitting humanity somehow. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@bluefolder5182]

That's why he turns off the comments on the videos of his own channel (like the Kardashians) he isn't the rockstar he thinks he is, and doesn't want other people to know they're not the only ones who aren't impressed.

[@ChrisHodgsonCorben-Dallas]

Looking forward to seeing what Chip does with the Mona Lisa and the Sistine Chapel. “The original was too square”

[@FRITZI999]

Okay - looks almost perfect and like an update of the original. PERFECTO !!!!

[@aerial_camera_video_imaging]

The E-Type is a beautiful car and cannot be improved in design terms. We now live in a world of refinement. Chip has a wonderful understanding of this in his version.

[@JonarusDraconius]

I *love* this! All the timelessly 'classic' lines of the original, but with just the right adjustments to make it simultaneously modern!

[@WildBillFlysRC]

Some things should not be messed with.... like the classic lines of the E type.

[@turdferguson9190]

Ok boomer

[@fatbastard667]

It's only a drawing.

[@ebehrendsen]

Chip, this is absolutely stunning! You would be crazy not to build this and win multiply awards for making the XKE coupe the most beautiful car in the world. Well done...well done!

[@evanselaban7058]

His artistry very refined, theres an elegance about his style lots of energy the vehicles always looks like its moving never still and lots of volume and dimension. Love watching him draw and design I could watch him all day.

[@farben_]

Always wished Chip Foose put out an artbook with all his designs, specially the cars from Overhaulin'. What's great is that Foose put all the art from the show on his webpage.

[@coops6621]

As a lifelong E-Type fan I was all ready to hate on any revision to perfection but to be honest this looked gooood!

[@jpkatz1435]

Foose is the Rembrant of contemporary car designers. The original is beautiful, this reimagining is beautiful.

[@jewell92]

I love to watch his drawing. Pure genius! I would have loved having one of his sketches.

[@mustafa007ceylan]

This man is amazing, no pc no program nothing. And the result stay better than a on pc madden one.

[@carrollshelby8690]

"The wheels are very small." They were small on the XKE roadster, too. Then Chip put Conestoga wagon-sized wheels on the roadster he actually built. As Chip get older, the wheels get BIGGER and the tire side walls become rubber bands. Chip is slowly moving into Pimp My Ride and GAS territory. Any car Enzo Ferrari called most beautiful should be left alone.

[@dustypendleton6694]

I have to admit that, as a former E-type owner, it was appalling to even think about changing the design of what to me was the most elegant and beautiful automobile, ever. Still, it has to be noted that Mr. Foose designed a worthwhile project target. Now, leave the E-Type to the concourse d'elegance and high dollar auctions and build this new Foose mobile with all new frame and molded Kevlar body work. Especially, go for an outboard brake on the rear axle. The Jaguar Independent rear suspension was a nightmare to service.

[@ADigbySellers]

Dusty Pendleton As another former E-Type owner I agree with you completely! Goose is very talented but I dislike (at least) virtually everything he does.

[@h7pubg]

I still think e-types should stay somewhat affordable, but I don’t think they should be butchered. just think a 2+2 shouldn’t be over 30 or 40 grand in the future, should be obtainable to be appreciated and driven, but not really modified like this. Although I’m probably wrong, been seeing good examples of early 2+2s for like 50 - 60k recently

[@patjackson1657]

I'm happy to hear that Enzo Ferrari agreed with me about the 59 XKE roadster. I am sure that if he was still around, he, like me, would love your rendition of the coupe. Jaguars original attempt took a beautiful car and stuck a stage 4 tumor on it! You did it right! Thank you!

[@900108Chale]

TX Chip! You corrected the ONE thing where the E type is flawed: roof line! Awesome redesign!

[@carlstanford7607]

Modernise does not equal improve. Some things are a perfection of their era.

[@donaldbarrett2267]

Love the car both before and after. One thing to talk to people about is,"How do you know when it is done?" Someone once said the E-type needed much more down force on the front end. Personal preference, I like to have the wheel wells rounded to match an even distance around the tire. Lower the car? okay, match the new lines to the tire and the car if need be.

[@klaushaunstrupchristensen7252]

Looks super, with the exception of the wheel size, which should be substantially smaller, and the ride height which should be higher. The suspension should be able to breathe both physically (long wheel travel)and visually. I especially like the idea of integrating the exhaust end into the body of the car. I wonder what mr. Foose can come up with for the Tesla model 3? Quiet a challenge 😅 What I could dream up for the Tesla is hiding the front license plate behind glass integrated in the front bumper, like the Citroën SM. Using a double bubble roof Zagato style. And ultimately taking of the outside rear mirrors and replacing them with small rear cameras like the Honda E. Wonder what mr Foose will do with the Tesla 🧐

[@BorisMitendorfer]

Very clean and elegant design! It looks fantastic!

[@chrislee6691]

As a lover of cars and an a bit of an artist myself, I’ve always had great respect and admiration for you and your work Chip. I so appreciate the creativity and passion that you put into everything you do. This is a beautiful rendering and would be as amazing as the other cars you build if you built it. I always dreamed of being on Overhauling, I watched every episode many times because I can’t get enough of this stuff. I have a Karmann Ghia I always wonder what you would come up with If I had it overhauled. Thanks for sharing your talents with us.

[@merlinbalke1735]

Chip's design is a huge improvement. He recognized that the original coupe was designed so that a gentleman could drive it without removing his top hat.

[@ditzydoo4378]

Congrats Chip! You've created an elongated Porsche 911/Jaguar E-type Coupe.

[@abc20002koonrsr]

Its art isn't it , great designs that look great on paper and then to real life , thats the amazing bit

[@oddreign]

I would love to see what Chip would do to a '68-'72 c3 Corvette coupe

[@glennt69lol]

Always liked chips vision of cars

[@ronlynch7744]

Awesome style. Only you could do this Foose.

[@jorger643]

One of the most beautiful cars even before the foose treatment for sure

[@ripptorr]

I'd love to see that being built!

[@rebuildit]

I love these design episodes. Amazing to watch.

[@gavinhirt6994]

The true gem was datsun they took Ferrari and jaguar's styling and made an awesome car w the 240 260 and 280

[@grayfox7440]

Genius in design Chip, great work!

[@helmhurst]

Can't lie, original Mk1 E-Type was near perfect, probably. leave this one alone Chip.

[@padelisgk8126]

Imagine having a boss like that and working on a project..he would bring so much motivation and inspiration...

[@ike621]

Me: Hey Chip how did you make this so sporty? Chip: Ctrl+A, Ctrl+I

[@estrader6214]

Fantastic! A dare Chip to draw a customized 1997-2000 Geo Metro!

[@Trapper50cal]

Giving anything a 911 Roofline and window contour is going to bring the feelies. Those hips work well with it.

[@richardike2342]

I always thought the E-Type was top-heavy too. This is a great update.

[@tombrenes2411]

I’d commission one aluminum body v12 One of the most beautiful bodies ever (coupe)

[@lkendrix7782]

I love ❤️ it! Make it Black! With bright red leather tuck & roll interior! High back bucket seats. No back seats only a shelf for custom matching bright red leather luggage 🧳 with tie down straps! Lots of chrome! Wire rims with redline vogue tires! LS motor or maybe go Electric ⚡️! That’s a show stopper! Tell the competition to go home! This one’s a winner!

[@stilltocool]

Would love to see Chip do a sketch up of 1969 UK Ford Capri, Jaguar looks awsome.

[@guspisano9777]

The difference between styling an old ford or a Camaro and an E-Type is that with the ford or the chevy there's lots to play with. With the Jag, you take a blank sheet of paper and a pen, stare at it for a while and you put down the pen and walk away saying, "I got nothing"

[@jameshickman5299]

You say the coupe looks top heavy. In 1967(?), Jaguar introduced the “2+2” coupe. It was about 3 inches taller than the original coupe was. The door glass wouldn’t go all the way down into the door. If you want to see a good looking XKE, check out the “Low-Drag” E-Type. It’s quite different from the standard coupe, and I think it’s better looking. Take care.

[@sameersagar2890]

If was sketch was actually used to make a E type modification it would be really interesting to see how the car turns out as i really like the look of it.

[@brahmsonstoner837]

Chip's version is a fantasy if you have to drive the thing on REAL roads, not on a smooth showroom floor. Having once owned a '66 E-Type coupe, I can tell you that lowering the sill line is just asking for a real-world bottoming out.

[@FeistyPineapple]

This is such an amazing take on the E-Type coupe. Great job!

[@jbjunior2008]

God... it's a sin we don't have a Chip Foose's School of Car Customization, isn't it?!?!?!?!😔

[@NotJustSawdust]

I enjoyed watching this whole series and every car taken on in one of the designs got better looking. Except this one. Why convert one of the most epic designs into a topchop version of a Citroen DS? I'm a big fan of your work because you always are able to keep "The Heart" onto the car.. in this drawing for the first time (I know off) that disappeared. I would love to see you take on a second design for the E-Type!

[@muhammadghandura115]

Love the work of Chip Foose! He is two weeks my senior and I love cars myself! I do drawings of automobiles since my childhood from the tender age of 5. I would love to meet the man!

[@starman7945]

The problem with pulling the base of the A post forward is what it does to the form of the windscreen wraparound . The rest is just change for the sake of change imo.

[@BrownCornelius000]

It didn't need to be re-imagined, it needed to be re-engineered.

[@BigBoyLies]

it has already been reengineered aka modernized. search for eagle e type.

[@MrBranboom]

True, but as beautiful as the original is, it's a bulbous 90s car by today's trends.

[@tomnekuda3818]

The Jag XKE coupe is a perfect car......leave it alone. Looks like you're trying to make it into a warmed-over Datsun Z-car.

[@atomicmillenial9728]

You're saying that as though the Z-cars weren't just warmed-over E-types. I've personally found the XKE coupe to be a bit awkward looking, Chip's rendering takes a lot of that stereotypical British awkwardness away and gives the coupe a much sleeker design.

[@tomnekuda3818]

@@atomicmillenial9728 True. I guess it is personal preference. I used to work on XKE's and I guess that's where my thoughts come from.....you know how it goes....you tend to like what you've had a connection to in the past.

[@Itsmeagain-]

If Enzo said the E-type is the most beautiful car ever made. He didn’t mean the roadster, like chip said, but the coupe.

[@dustypendleton6694]

That's what I thought that I remembered reading in Road & Track. The magazine editor also called the E-Type the 'finest crumpet collector known to man."

[@jameshickman5299]

That was Henry N. Manney III, European editor for R&T.

[@fubene5495]

Anyways, they both are wrong XD, the Miura is the most beautiful car ever made, only GT40 is that beatiful but it was a racecar ^^, in my opinion of course. E-type is a top 10 thats for sure.

[@megszalott]

He should improve the Mona Lisa too...

[@1911bela]

WOW, even the sketch is worth millons

[@roberthoffhines5419]

As much as I don't want to be the one shouting "Heretic" this might be the first of these where I think the baby ended up with the bath water. That said, THIS, minus the chrome bumpers, is the car they SHOULD be building as the Jaguar of 2021.

[@andyrbush]

"I'm going to improve the E Type design." And he did, awesome.

[@battleaxebob45]

I love these videos but I'd really like to see him do more cars that arent considered gorgeous cars. More like how he would take the averge, nothing great about it, cars and make them cool looking.

[@RandomPlaceHolderName]

Agreed. To me his best 'Chip Foose Draws a Car' episode was the Pacer.

[@craiggkee]

You mean like an 88-93 Ford Taurus, or a 96 Japanese subcompact, iconic, in that it was everyone's car.

[@archiscapes1503]

I agree...taking Iconic cars and redesigning them is not a good use of his talent!

[@mikestang679]

Chop the top, as someone did on a 300SL Gullwing, back in the 60's.........

[@scottbehl216]

I don't think the E type is as beautiful as the F Type ! I'd like to see what Chip would do with that !!

[@BUZZKILLII1]

If I had the money . This is the only person I would have design my street rod .

[@peanut71968]

Chip Foose? Yep, this guy does crossword puzzles in ink!

[@rhafaelcorreia4050]

this man is a genius

[@adnanlatif1722]

Chip you are best car designer in the world NO 1

[@Steverinomeister]

Foose turning a timeless classic into a 2020 custom that will always look like it was designed in 2020. Thanks Chip for not really doing it.

[@tabba1376]

*Just because Chip Foose does it, sure doesn't make it better. The worst thing that happened to Chip's career is when he became a fan of his own brand. Stop with lowering everything onto big wheels, not everything is better just because you worked on it.*

[@charleschapman3994]

I love the concept but it still looks like a series 3 in length. Ideally something with a 100" wb would be cool (vs 96 or 108).

[@jcollif]

So now we need to know where we can get prints of these sketches.....to hang in our man caves....in black frames with white mats. With spot lights in the ceiling.

[@medihedayati9132]

Awesome.another great drawing by master mr chip foose.

[@terrywilliams667]

Please build it!!!

[@Infi4392]

For some reason i feel like this is what the E-type would look like if Aston Martin made the E-type.

[@Slimecrazy234]

Chip Foose the legend

[@tj71520]

Looks Very Nice. Should be done as an all electric car.

[@tombrenes2411]

Sir C Foose do a rendering for the silver arrows

[@Bravo955]

That would look amazing as a polished aluminium body, just dont wreck a real one.

[@phillipmitchell5879]

Nice work Chip. I like a lot of your work, yet i wonder - messing w/ the Series 1 or 1.5 E-Type design - isn't that sacrilege??

[@jimburns9674]

Enzo was right “Jaguar's E-Type is the most beautiful car in the world.” I think that Enzo was a little better than you at recognizing the greatest design ever.

[@darinclark1853]

Sorry Mr. Foose.... You can't improve on perfection.

[@freddieslaughter1107]

I would paint that British racing green with saddle interior.

[@brownwarrior6867]

If Flash Gordon’s Rocket Ship designer had gone on a weekend bender with the designer of the MK 1 Ford Capri this would have been the end result.

[@konstantinosadamos8545]

Always loved your work Chip but please no LS swap for this Jag

[@Sharpened_Spoon]

Much preferred when the wheels looked like moon caps. and miss the very rearward cockpit look, seems the whole cabin is a bit too forward to really catch the essence. Always fun to watch Chip draw though.

[@garyleblanc7095]

super fan of yours. i saw an old re-inlistment cartoon for the military , and in that cartoon there was a referance to an imaginary car called a jagalac. jaguar + cadalic i would love for you to use your genios to design your interpertation of a 50's or 60's Jagalic.

[@tjrodgers4200]

I wonder if Chip had a chance to bring back any car produced, redesign it to modern standards, and it get produced again, which car would it be and how would it look? Mine is a hard choice, 70 Chevelle or 77 Nova. I can't decide.

[@renzoolivares100]

Estoy al pendiente de sus videos y todos sin duda son una maravilla pero los mejores son dónde ajustan motor hagan más de esos son tan buenos

[@Mark28644]

You assume Enzo Ferrari was just reffering to the E-Type Convertabile. He just said it was the most beautiful car in the world. The Coupe version is just as beautiful, if not more in my opinion.

[@ug9191]

There you go Chip. Throw an LS V12 in it and go for the Riddler.

[@Pgcmoore]

outstanding!!! the part i loved most are the billet spoked wheels, a first for me a chips wheels

[@ericmonse2165]

Love to see you update a 1973 Volvo 1800es sport wagon

[@PhotoAlbert]

Super cool as always! I did laugh out loud when Chip said "design what you like and then build it"........Ha Ha, if only I had the skill to do so......

[@uliwehner]

looks like chip was able to graft a 356 porsche rear end to the jag front end. do not like the leaned back windshield, but then i like old cars because they look like old cars.

[@my31and37]

The E-type is an design icon, but I always wondered how one would look without the bulbous roof line. Still second to the C2 Corvette in appearance to me though.

[@Steverinomeister]

my31and37 you mean the 2+2 or the Coupe?

[@fw1421]

Looks like a stretched Porsche 904 to me Chip. I do like it. I loved your convertible though. Just amazing and sexy.

[@stephenmoxley3004]

Great video, guys. The finished product looks really cool. Foose is nothing short of amazing! I also enjoyed the smooth jazz sound track.