History Cole Foster Custom Sculpture/Model

Does anybody have any history on this sculpture/model by Cole Foster? I have owned it for a few years and it signed on the bottom 'Cole Foster 1995 No. 10/15'.

It is painted purple candy and is 22" Long by 12" Wide by 7". Sadly the time has come to part with it and I am trying to find out more about it such as what it might have been based on?

 

i remember when cole used to post on the hamb

 

Cool piece but I know nothing about it. HRP

 

It looks like it may have been a design study or a painting techniques assignment in a design school or maybe a course in industrial design / styling. The notation "10/15" suggests that 15 copies may have been produced - probably all the same shape and of different finishes.

Dunno - just guessing

 

Rod Powell probably painted it, he's on the HAMB and his shop was in the same complex as Cole's....

 

Very cool, were you looking to sell it? I might be interested.

 

Perhaps @cole and/or @RodP will weigh in.

 

i remember seeing those for sell in a issue of custom rodder magazine back in the day

 

Is that the Cole Foster with the outrageous Red '49 Ford?........Centurion9....This one?

 

Cool sculpture!

 

No! ... That's Cole CUTLER's shoebox Ford.

Cole FOSTER is (legendary drag racer) Pat Foster's son ... a gifted fabricator ... and his shop (Salinas Boys Customs) has built some real bitchin' bikes, hot rods, & customs.

Here's some of the HAMB-friendly cars built by Cole & the "Salinas Boys Customs" crew:

Cole's '54 Chevy


Henry Gong's '56 Nomad


Kirk Hammett's '36 Ford "Metallicoupe"​

 

Kinda looks like a Henry J.

 

In that size, my guess would be it is based on an RC car (1/8th scale?) aftermarket body. Typically, they're vacuformed from clear plastic. RC racers generally paint the inside surface of the shell, leaving the clear plastic as a "clear coat". This also helps prevent paint chipping.
It reminds me of those smaller scale custom paint sample "bodies".

 

I remember seeing those before, but don't know anything about them. cool though.

 

Here is a writeup on it in Low Rider Magazine in August 1994 including Cole's contact info.

 

Neat! I'd buy one of them

 

Thank you Hemi32 for the correction....I appreciate it....Centurion9

 

Well, I got that part right.

 

Do you still own this?

 

I dropped a link on Coles FB page, maybe he will chime in.

 

Viva la Hamb

 

seems like you got the info, i made 15 of them in 1995, i still have one also, i think i sold them for around a $1,000 . hope you get alot for it. Marc dubila painted all pieces he worked with Rod Powell we painted them there.

 

Very cool, Cole Foster is on the HAMB! You are very talented.