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What You Didn’t Know – Cole Foster

Originally Published In The September 2013 Issue Of Cycle Source Magazine

Name: Cole Foster

Age: 48

Business: Salinasboys.com

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Cole Foster has been constructing rolling works of metal art since 1989. Son of Hall of National Drag Race Fame member Pat Foster, Cole creates cars that are so clean they don’t have lines — they simply flow, as evident from the numerous magazine features written on these customs. In 2001, Cole built “The Blue Bike,” a bobber style motorcycle that promptly set the bike world on its collective ear. The bike was featured on Speed Channel’s Corbin’s Ride on TV and on TNN with Popular Hot Rodding TV plus no less than 50 magazines worldwide. Cole’s designs are timeless, stylistic and subtle yet making a screaming statement collectively with the final product. Passionate and obsessive in the pursuit of the perfect custom is what defines Cole Foster the artist.

 

What’s your favorite song on your iPod right now?

“I’m a caveman…I don’t know your modern ways.” I might be the only person left that doesn’t have a cell phone, iPad or iPod! I do love a good George Jones ballad. If you could change anything about your appearance, what would it be? I’m pretty comfortable in my own skin. Speaking of skin, I might be the only bike builder with no tattoos even though I’m good friends with some of the best tattoo artists in the world.

 

What is your alltime favorite movie?

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I just saw one of them last week: Runaway Train from the mid ‘80s.

 

If you could choose your last meal, what would you have?

Steak and baked potatoes please!

 

What’s another hobby of yours that is not motorcycle/car related?

I love “junking.” I brake for a good garage sale or swap meet, and I collect art deco. I also draw quite a bit.

 

If you could spend the day with a famous person that has passed on, who would it be?

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I would have loved to spend a day with Elvis, riding go-carts and bikes around Graceland, shooting some TV sets and giving away some Cadillacs.

 

If you had to choose any other occupation that what you do now, what would you pick?

Anything that didn’t take a shop full of equipment. Doing something out of a van or briefcase seems a bit freer, but I am very happy where I’m at in life!

 

What’s the first item on your bucket list?

I only have a couple more things to check off! I feel really lucky to have done and seen as much as I have! I l have lived a charmed life!

 

If you could live in a different country for one year, which would you pick and why?

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Italy. I’m always trying to figure out how my wife and I could live there a couple months a year near Verona or Venice: perfect!

 

What’s something that most people don’t know about you?

My given name is Arthur Coleman Foster; I’ve always gone by Cole.

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