Boyd Coddington dead

[packrat427]

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I did not know this ..

Coddington would have been the first to start the buried 1957 Plymouth Belvedere in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2007, but the car was too badly damaged by long-term immersion in water.

[Damkid]

i've seen his show a few times.... he's done some amazing work.... may he rest in peace

[monkeyracing]

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

I understand that I'm (more than a little) short on tact sometimes. Alright, most of the time. I just call it like I see it. If someone had mentioned the guys name two days ago and referred to him as a "king" I'd have had the same reaction.

So, if I was a little on the unfeeling side, I apologize.

It's just that he's signed his name to, and took credit for, so much of other people's work, just as George Barris has. Most of Boyd's success for the past 20 years was because of design work by Thom Taylor and Chip Foose. His company's bread and butter/reputation were hot rods like the Boydster (Foose) the Cadzilla (also Foose) and Chezoom (Taylor.)

Based on that, I never really had any respect for the man.

Jim

[hotrodin4me]

a few years ago i was introduced to him at a car show in califorina.
didnt impress me much, actuall thought he was a jerk.

[eturnlfesti]

Not trying to join the bash wagon...

but I knew him and did design work for him after he bought out Weld Wheel and then drove it in the ground. He acted quite arrogant most the time I dealt with him.
I know people in the industry that worked with him also and at best considered him a shady business person. I also know through someone who studied under Chip Foose that Chip didn't have much good to say about him and they split ways on very bad terms.
I don't like to hear of anyone's passing but romanticizing someone's history after their gone isn't fair to those surviving that may have been affected negatively by them.

[scitzz]

All I knew was from the tv show, and that I put a few sets of his wheels on some stang's I refurbished back when that was what I was into. On his show at least, I was impressed by the fact that when they restored a car, they restored it, not just put some filler here and there, but tore it down and built it back up, like I did, not the cheapskate way.

[festivaWES]

RIP Boyd.

[88festiva1.3l]

may he rest in peace amen ........

[Deathshead]

Not for nothin, but i used to be in the hot rod industry and heard many many stories of this guy being the biggest "bag of feminine hygene products" in the world, and how he screwed people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars..