I don't mean to talk down "Hotrodgrany's" great experience with Chip--that's a good thing, and I bet it was a lot of fun, too... but..I have to agree with Don...
In my opinion, I feel that Chip is more a stylist than designer. I haven't seen him design a completly original car from scratch. He went to school at Art Center in Pasadena, which I attended for one semester, and hated it. It's a school for artists to fit into the corporate world. You learn to draw like Syd Mead (i.e. Bladerunner) with color markers. It all looks the same.
What grates me is how Chip took the Horse and Bars logo, and took off the horse, and put his own name there. By comparison, I've met and talked to Gene Winfield, a great car designer from the 60's, that is truly a designer. He did a lot of cars for TV shows, and is an expert at "lead sleds" from the 1950's, too. Gene is low key, and very modest, and doesn't flaunt what he's done. There is a fraternity of automotive artists, designers and craftsmen from the 1960's that perhaps Chip could take some lessons from.
Just my opinion--no disrespect intended.
Paul N.