Pete Chapouris
Pete Chapouris (16 December 1944 – 6 January 2017 [1] ) is an American Hot rodder and cusomizer.
Chapouris started in the 1950s in Southern California, where he was a member of the Vintage Tin Hot Rod Club.[2]
He is best known for the '34 Ford 3-window The California Kid, featured on the cover of Custom Rod (along with a similar coupé built by Jim Jacobs)[3] in November 1973 and in the movie of the same name in 1974.[4] The California Kid became one of the most memorable, and most-often copied, hot rods ever.[5]
The magazine cover led to a partnership with the builder of the other cover car, Jim "Jake" Jacobs, and the creation of their speed shop, Pete and Jake's Hot Rod Shop in Temple City, California, in 1974.[6]
Chapouris was also SEMA Vice Presdent of Marketing. [7]
Notes
- ↑ Kimbrough, Bobby. "in Memoriam: Great Hot Rodders We Lost In 2017" at written 28 December 2017 at Rodauthority.com (retrieved 18 October 2018)
- ↑ Hot Rod Magazine online (retrieved 17 June 2015)
- ↑ Hot Rod Magazine online (retrieved 17 June 2015)
- ↑ Kimbrough, Bobby. "in Memoriam: Great Hot Rodders We Lost In 2017" at written 28 December 2017 at Rodauthority.com (retrieved 18 October 2018)
- ↑ Hot Rod Magazine online (retrieved 17 June 2015)
- ↑ Hot Rod Magazine online (retrieved 17 June 2015); Kimbrough, Bobby. "in Memoriam: Great Hot Rodders We Lost In 2017" at written 28 December 2017 at Rodauthority.com (retrieved 18 October 2018)
- ↑ Kimbrough, Bobby. "in Memoriam: Great Hot Rodders We Lost In 2017" at written 28 December 2017 at Rodauthority.com (retrieved 18 October 2018)
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