OT: Boyd Coddington Dead at Age 63?, Happened this morning |
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OT: Boyd Coddington Dead at Age 63?, Happened this morning |
Midtowner |
Feb 27 2008, 11:48 AM
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Ooooo! Group: Members Posts: 652 Joined: 21-December 04 From: Sunnyvale, CA Member No.: 3,316 Region Association: None |
I just saw this on Jalopnik.
http://jalopnik.com/361391/boyd-coddington...-dead-at-age-63 Your thoughts? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) |
byndbad914 |
Feb 27 2008, 07:36 PM
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shoehorn and some butter - it fits Group: Members Posts: 1,547 Joined: 23-January 06 From: Broomfield, CO Member No.: 5,463 Region Association: None |
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. |
jasons |
Feb 27 2008, 08:02 PM
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Jackstand Extraordinaire Group: Members Posts: 2,002 Joined: 19-August 04 From: Scottsdale, AZ Member No.: 2,573 Region Association: None |
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byndbad914 |
Feb 27 2008, 08:20 PM
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shoehorn and some butter - it fits Group: Members Posts: 1,547 Joined: 23-January 06 From: Broomfield, CO Member No.: 5,463 Region Association: None |
What I really liked about the show is they actually showed Marcel That was the absolutely best episode of that show ever. That guy (Marcel) is an artisan. a little hijack here, but to give you an idea about Marcel, the car Chat (my friend's Dad) asked Marcel to build was an idea he had... I don't have pics but the car pretty much looks 60s concept car, had a 1963 (IIRC) Tempest IRS and rear transaxle, a V8 of some sort, every single panel was hand-formed and welded together by Marcel to build the whole structure and body (and using the aforementioned English wheel they built together). The doors self-close and latch with just a slight angle built-in, precision hinges and gravity to this day (30+ yrs later) whether you open them a couple inches or all the way. Just cool IMO and I consider myself lucky to have see/touched/sat in the first car Marcel ever built in the USA... and in his sponsor's garage. Troy (my friend) has it in his garage to this day. |
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