Holly made the long drive out to the shop and took pictures of the Challenger II for several hours. I wasn't quite sure what to expect (quite a few people come and take photos of the car), but I was immediately charmed with Holly's fun personality and attitude. When I saw the results a couple weeks later, I was stunned. Her work is really spectacular and resulted in the best shots of the project so far. She's been kind enough to let us use many of them here on the website. You can check out her impressive portfolio at hollymartin.com.
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The Awesome and Indefatigable Chip Foose
Chip Foose walked into our shop this morning and left this drawing on Davis’ bench. He’d purchased a copy of Erik Arneson’s biography of my dad, read it, and then drawn this picture of how he imagined the Challenger 2.5 would look once we were finished with it.
Chip is a really great artist, and we liked his illustration so much that we decided to wrap our wind tunnel model in an identical vinyl pattern. That ended up being a pretty challenging task, so the next time he came around and saw us struggling with it, he offered to paint the model himself free of charge. We dropped it off around 10:00 AM on a Sunday morning. Chip worked on it all day and long into the night, talking and drawing and being generally unsatisfied with anything short of perfection. He finished up around 2 AM. It was pretty astonishing. Thanks Chip!
Challenger II In Motion by Paul Laguette
Graphic designer Paul Laguette made a great render of the Challenger 2.5 in motion. Check out his work at studiopdesign.com.