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> OT: Boyd Coddington Dead at Age 63?, Happened this morning
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post Feb 27 2008, 11:48 AM
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I just saw this on Jalopnik.

http://jalopnik.com/361391/boyd-coddington...-dead-at-age-63

Your thoughts?
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post Feb 27 2008, 11:51 AM
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No way! that cant be true! That really sucks....

hopefully putting bling wheels on old cars dies with him, what shit that stuff is to look at. a 1970 charger needs to have 14'' cragars and that's the largest it gets, god-damnit!

hope he lived a good life :-) i wont B.S. about prayers because that seems smarmy to me.
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post Feb 27 2008, 11:55 AM
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That's sad. He was a true artist. Even though some of the stuff I didn't like some was very cool. I would like to have some of his tools now that he doesn't need them. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Feb 27 2008, 12:20 PM
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He didn't vote for Mrs K. Coincidence?
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post Feb 27 2008, 12:41 PM
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QUOTE(carr914 @ Feb 27 2008, 01:20 PM) *

He didn't vote for Mrs K. Coincidence?

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did anyone ever watch his show on TLC??
the guy was wound so tight Im surprised he made it this far.
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post Feb 27 2008, 12:42 PM
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From seeing him on his show American Hot Rod I am sure there is party going to be happening somewhere.
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post Feb 27 2008, 12:52 PM
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Thats to bad, now who is going to treat his crew like shit?
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post Feb 27 2008, 01:09 PM
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QUOTE(slackin' at work @ Feb 27 2008, 11:41 AM) *

QUOTE(carr914 @ Feb 27 2008, 01:20 PM) *

He didn't vote for Mrs K. Coincidence?

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did anyone ever watch his show on TLC??
the guy was wound so tight Im surprised he made it this far.


He didn't seem to be wound tight, his right hand man Duane was wound super tight.

I watched the show a lot, I wounder what will happen to his shop. He already sold the wheel company a couple years ago.
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post Feb 27 2008, 01:09 PM
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Wonder who gets the company, the widow or the ex?
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post Feb 27 2008, 01:21 PM
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A heart attack sure seems likely.
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post Feb 27 2008, 01:39 PM
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In this fast paced industry where nothing is ever good enough you HAVE to be wound tight and stay that way.
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post Feb 27 2008, 01:56 PM
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Sure didn't look very healthy for a 63 y/o. I thought he was older. Sad to see him go, though it seems he's left a lot of mixed feeling behind.

Yup purple, those big wheels just don't work!! Foose, you listening?

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post Feb 27 2008, 02:17 PM
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Sad to see him go.

But now maybe some of those cars they find can be saved. What was that one low mileage one they cut up and "hot rodded".

I remember Mike wasnt too happy about it. Been awhile since I watched the show.
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post Feb 27 2008, 02:20 PM
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this is one of a very few guys that first took hotrods and customs to huge leap in quality and design.
i didn't like the tv show, although i watched that train wreck the cars that where turned out under his name are iconic, remember cadizilla? and the aluma coupe?

to me those things that he has done i'll respect and remember.

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post Feb 27 2008, 04:13 PM
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Oh, Wow...

Another one bites the dust! I agree with Jake; life is just too damn short, and it takes way too much tension to keep ahead of the Pack...

So, I am out of the race... let the "Hard Chargers" run til they drop!

BTW... the 15" Magnum 500's were an option for the late '60's and early '70's B Bodies... And look "Just Perfect"...
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post Feb 27 2008, 04:25 PM
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QUOTE(Jake Raby @ Feb 27 2008, 01:39 PM) *

In this fast paced industry where nothing is ever good enough you HAVE to be wound tight and stay that way.


Well I hope that staying wound tight does not make your days numbered.

I did that high winding stuff as the Chief Gunners Mate on a Aegis Cruiser. I was much younger then.

I am really a lot more chill now.

Boyd made some really cool cars. I really fell in love with Shazoom.
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post Feb 27 2008, 04:32 PM
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QUOTE(Joe Ricard @ Feb 27 2008, 04:25 PM) *

QUOTE(Jake Raby @ Feb 27 2008, 01:39 PM) *

In this fast paced industry where nothing is ever good enough you HAVE to be wound tight and stay that way.


Well I hope that staying wound tight does not make your days numbered.

I did that high winding stuff as the Chief Gunners Mate on a Aegis Cruiser. I was much younger then.

I am really a lot more chill now.

Boyd made some really cool cars. I really fell in love with Shazoom.



ok. sorry OT..so you remember the change in the fire control systems if you were around in the 89-95 era....? I was one of the ones who was involved in the medical aspect. We drew stress catacolamines while the test program threw all sorts of #$%$@ at the FC's and officers doing the scenerios...


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post Feb 27 2008, 05:36 PM
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Like him or not. Like his work or not. The guy was an artisan.

How many out there have coverted a four to a six? How many have conerted a four to a subie? How many have plopped a 928 motor in a 914? How many have radical bodywork on a 914?

Yeah, he had a big head and treated his employees like dirt, but he did turn out some gorgeous abominations! And he actually made some money doing it.

Give the guy some credit!

Oh, by the way. William F. Buckley died today also. One of my heroes.
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post Feb 27 2008, 05:43 PM
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It is a bummer.
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post Feb 27 2008, 07:36 PM
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I too agree with Pat about Boyd. When I lived in SoCal and worked in Hot Rod shops, guys were always interviewing trying to leave there (including some on the show). He was, in general, an ass and I frankly didn't like him.

BUT, Foose et all these days are all following what is generally his lead. He WAS the guy in the 80s and early 90s. Foose worked for him, hint hint nudge nudge. I couldn't have worked for him but respect his imagination. The show was pretty accurate and not scripted; it is really that F'd up there apparently from what I was told by people interviewing with me.

What I really liked about the show is they actually showed Marcel, my good friend's dad (sounds like Ferris Bueller) actually sponsored him to come to this country and they build an insane car from the ground up in his garage in the 60s and the English wheel shown on the show was built my Marcel and him in his back yard. Marcel built Alumacoupe... period. A lot of Boyd's ideas came to fruition thru Marcel, and he still works with Foose and others in SoCal, so innovation will still exist... but Boyd should be revered as a fore-father of the modern hot rod.
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