I've only see part of that episode but he really looked emotional about it. It's hard to know what parts of shows like this are real and what to expect people on these shows to be like in real life but from what I've been told Foose is exactly as nice as they make him out to be on the show. I have a local chassis bending/roll cage shop that bends frame rails for me(WAY cheaper and tighter radi than AM, beautiful stuff),they built the chassis for that ugly Napa S-10 they Overhaul'd a few months ago, the owner was on the build and had some cool stories about Foose. He couldn't get over how nice he was. They went over to use the lathe at Foose's shop and he got an hour or so tour of Impressions which was just sitting under a car cover in the corner. He said the shop was much smaller than he expected, they were working right next to Impressions. Foose even joked that he hoped nothing ran into or fell on the car....then said " well we built it, I guess we can fix it"
Nothing but nice things to say about him though.