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Demetrio Montalvo likes American music, American food, and especially American cars. Only problem; Demetrio lives in Communist Cuba. A Visa, bestowed to him from some American friends in high places, lets him travel to the States to search for tough-to-find automotive parts and attend his favorite car show. Showing up to Caffeine & Octane in a cool caddy is the easy part. Picking parts, to keep his taxi running and his family fed back home, presents a unique set of challenges for the Cuban car builder.

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Take apart and assemble a motor in less than 30 minutes? Sure, NASCAR pit crews can make the claim, but can a rag-tag group of kids with names like Jelly Donut, Butter Bean, and Wonder Woman claim the fame? This lighting fast half-hour edition of Caffeine & Octane also includes a builder’s take on an Ultra Four Unlimited Off-Road Racer.

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On this edition of Caffeine & Octane we’ll go inside the head of Master Builder Bryan Fuller at the SEMA car show. The annual event always brings out the best in the automotive industry. From a jaw-dropping Javelin to a multimillion-dollar Pagani, Brian will prove to you, what happens in Vegas, doesn’t always stay in Vegas!

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Caffeine & Octane is back at the beach with a focus on cars and families. Fathers & sons, with their barn-find Pilot House trucks and Plymouth Satellites, call cars the glue that keeps these families bonded together.

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Early spring in Jekyll Island, GA is something to behold. Add a few hundred of the Country’s coolest rides for Caffeine & Octane at the Beach, and it’s a thing of beauty. Lawn art at the all makes and models show include a hand-built, twin-turbo Tucker, a one-off 1951 Kaiser Drag’N, and a Roadkill Custom known only as Blasphemi!

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Be it coupe, sedan, or station wagon, Volvo’s Amazon offered eye-opening European performance that was far beyond its sedate styling. And this performance is one reason why the Amazon earned a loyal following. That said, the look is clean and anything but offensive, but can it get better? Let’s see what Chip Foose has in mind to give the Amazon a dose of muscle and attitude.

Chip’s design definitely has some fun with the Amazon, while using tricks from this hot rodding playbook. He starts with a sketch of an Amazon coupe (or two-door sedan) in side view, lowers it, moves a chrome moulding lower on the body, paints the headlight rings body color, uses Jaguar door handles, and chops the A-pillars to make it into a convertible.

While larger wheels are added, their design pays homage to the Amazon’s original wheels. Chip finishes his rendering in a dark green, a wonderfully subtle color for a wonderfully subtle street machine.

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The all-new 2021 Bronco takes Ford’s famous nameplate back to its roots as a purpose built off road machine. And make no mistake, the Bronco is a capable package that can be configured to almost anyone’s needs. So what can Chip Foose do (in a drawing) to make it better? Go the complete opposite way, adding more speed, more sport, and far more street savvy!

The first thing Chip does is trace what makes the 2021 Bronco so special: the perfectly reimagined body made by Ford’s designers. His changes are subtle, including a more car-like windshield and A-pillar, a Mustang-worthy side-view mirror, a subtle body kit over the rocker panels, and a rear spoiler that gently rises from the custom roll bar (B-pillar). The body is then lowered significantly—more so than a stock Ford F-150 SVT Lightning—for a street stance complete with Mustang Mach 1-inspired wheels.

Chip finishes his rendering for a white body, charcoal fender flares, and body kit, a hood stripe that’s slightly reminiscent of a 1970 Mustang BOSS 302, and replace the Bronco’s turbocharged Ecoboost engines for the Coyote V-8 of the Mustang Mach 1. As Chip suggests, this is the complete opposite of what people expect with a Ford Bronco. And isn’t that what makes it so special?

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Thank goodness that Lee Iacocca, upon exiting Ford on less than rosy circumstances, took his vision of a space-efficient people mover with him to Chrysler. In no uncertain terms, the 1984 Dodge Caravan (and Plymouth Voyager) that grew from the kernel of this idea changed the way families made their way across America. The van was no sports car, but Chip Foose nonetheless enjoys the technical challenge of turning an American icon into something unexpected. Very unexpected.

Chip starts with a wood-paneled Caravan in front three-quarters view and traces its simple form with a significant twist: turning it into a roofless, off-road-style vehicle. His overlay uses many of the lines penned by Chrysler designers, but the end result is something more akin to a contemporary Ford Bronco or Chevrolet Blazer. The pillarless and roofless (he retained the A-pillar, but layed it down lower) Caravan sports a push bar, nerf bar, roll bar with driving lights and a mild lift kit.

Chip renders his design in a white and red body, with a red roll bar, black nerf bars, and white wheels with red center caps. The end result is a wicked off-road vehicle that is convincingly rugged. Of course, all of this overlooks the fact that the twin vans were originally derived from a front-wheel-drive Chrysler K-car, but Chip’s creation certainly deserves a Jeep Cherokee chassis and its 4.0-liter, six-cylinder powertrain. Jeep hardware underneath would give it performance worthy of the design. What do you think of the end result?

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The C8 Corvette is the realization of decades of mid-engine Corvette concept “teasers” promising to take America’s Sports Car to the next level of performance and style. While Chip Foose has mixed feelings on the new body style, he appreciates the giant leap forward this generation provides. But can he redesign a C8 to have a stronger connection to Corvettes of the past?

Chip starts his new design with a side profile tracing of the current C8, to ensure it fits on the chassis’ hard points underneath. He also was looking at Corvettes of the past for inspiration. Chip starts by integrating the engine intake scoop, yet there isn’t a panel that he didn’t tweak just to make a more integrated package. The completed line drawing looks undeniably like a Corvette, with call outs to everything from the C2 to the C7. Chip finishes the drawing with a rendering in bright red with dark charcoal wheels sporting polished lips. Did Chip do a good job revising the C8, and making it more of a Corvette?

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