Boyd Coddington dead

[FB71]

http://forums.rodandcustommagazine.com/70/6573470/whats-on-your-mind/boyd-coddington-rip/index.html

[quaddawg]

:cry: :shock: :cry:

[packrat427]

WOW
What a blow to the car customizing community .

Very sad to hear :!:

I was hoping I was going to win his red 57 Chevy project .

[phantorn]

Cant open it at work,Foiled by Fortinet . . . again

[FB71]

doesn't really say much, just that he passed this morning. No other details as of yet.

[packrat427]

Just says that it had been a lengthy stay in the hospital, before he passed .
Never went into detail yet .
The cause of death has been undisclosed.

[packrat427]

He had recently been hospitalized twice for an undisclosed medical condition. Although he was though to be in recovery, rumors of his untimely death began circulating today throughout the forums. A spokesperson for Boyd Coddington's corporation has confirmed to Jalopnik that those rumors are true. The company will be releasing a statement later today.
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2 times , they are keeping something quiet , they never even said what the first times were for ?

[rolla4me]

May he rest in peace..







I can smell $ fight between the ex-secretary wife and present wife.. :pain10:

[Festiva_tunner]

wow thats a low blow between him and chip foose there were some sharp large body cars put out but the one thing I liked about boyd is he would do roadsters

[jglutz]

Coddington grew up in Rupert, Idaho, where he got his first car (a 1931 Chevrolet truck) at age 13.[2] He attended machinist trade school at Idaho State University and completed a three year apprenticeship in machining. In 1966, he moved to California building hot rods by day and working as a machinist by night. He soon became known for building unique hot rods and in 1977 he opened his own shop, Hot Rods by Boyd, in Cypress, California. His first customer was Vern Luce whose car (a '33 coupe) won the Al Slonaker Award at the 1981 Oakland Roadshow. In 1988, Coddington founded Boyds Wheels Inc to manufacture and market custom automobile alloy wheels made from billet aluminum. In 1997, Coddington (along with his then chief designer Chip Foose) was inducted into the Hot Rod Hall of Fame.[3] In 1998, Coddington had to re-organize Boyds Wheels as the result of bankruptcy.[4] On April 7, 2005, Coddington pleaded guilty of perpetrating a "Ship of Theseus" fraud. Coddington had registered completely custom-fabricated, hand-built cars as antique automobiles in order to avoid emissions and tax liabilities.[5]

Until his death, Coddington had a 50,000 square feet (5,000 m˛) garage located in La Habra, California and had 70 employees. He died on February 27, 2008 from liver failure.

©wikipedia

[93_Festiva]

So sad when i heard this was a car god.....

Loved watching his show here in Australia

Will be sadly Missed....

Craig

[warlocke]

i loved watching his shows when i could, will be missed

[monkeyracing]

While I do feel badly for his friends, family and admirers, and I do feel that his passing is a loss to the hot rodding community, I question his actual contributions to the hobby.

Can anyone tell me a car that he designed himself? All the cars he is famous for were designed by either outside contract, or by designers on staff.

The Associated Press article regarding his passing was right on the mark when they compared him to George Barris, another "King" among customizers who got credit for a lot of things he never actually did. There's a whole book on that subject.

I apologize if this post offends anyone, but I really didn't have much respect for the man.

[Kraig]

Why dis a guy that just passed away.......

[FB71]

I have to mostly agree with Jim. However, the one car he did design was the ZZ Top Eliminator coupe.