Boyd Coddington Dead at 63

[joshbea6]

When I initially read this, I thought it was a hoax, but with the company confirming it, and them making a public statement about it later today...:(


Boyd Coddington Article (http://jalopnik.com/361391/boyd-codd...dead-at-age-63)


RIP

[cmill95]

well, a few years ago GOD needed a driver so he took Dale Sr. from us. now i guess GOD wanted a better car, so he took Boyd :D.

R.I.P. Boyd and thank you for your contributions to all of hot rodding.

[seawalkersee]

Huh....There was pretty much all of my feelings posted in the first few posts from the link above. I do feel for his family, God be with them.

Chris

[tbirdsc357]

Glad I got my rims already :rolleyes:

RIP, he was talented and I definitely liked his cars more than Foose.

[DamonSlowpokeBaumann]

Yah I cant believe it...Makes you wonder hwo much his peice of arts will be going for in the time to come

[19TbirdSC91]

wow didn't see that coming....:eek::(

[Jim Demmitt Jr]

Great person

We met Boyd at the 2002 Vegas SEMA show he is a regular hot rodder great person to talk to great custom car builder. I hope his wife keeps the name and company going forward. We lost another great person its sad

[Pacman]

Hell of a car builder but i could never have worked with a person like that. He was a real pain in the rear to his guys.

[nickleman60]

Sorry to here but Boyd was far from the perfect boss. I'm surprised some of his past employees haven't sued him or Dwayne (shop foreman) for the way they were treated, Dwayne needed an ~~~kicking from the 1st show. However I thought that they turned out some cool rides and he did start a new cutting edge in hotrod design that many now copy.

[Jacob_Royer]

I have to agreet with you.. Nice cars ~~~ of a guy i dont care what anybody says. The way he treated his guys its a wonder sombody didnt go postal and shoot him.

[Jim Demmitt Jr]

Sorry to here but Boyd was far from the perfect boss. I'm surprised some of his past employees haven't sued him or Dwayne (shop foreman) for the way they were treated, Dwayne needed an ~~~kicking from the 1st show. However I thought that they turned out some cool rides and he did start a new cutting edge in hotrod design that many now copy.


nickleman

You dont understand Show Bizzzzzzzz there not like that in real life its all put on to make the show more interesring like OCC American Chopper show there always fighting its all to get viewers to watch to see what happens next. What you see on the big screen is not what is taking place when the camera's are off when the real work takes place


Take it from me a Mr Hollywood :-) its all Show Bizzzzzzzzzzzz

[Miller]

OCC - yea in real life the pops is a bad alky, they dont show him doin that thooooo

[1bad67cat]

I got to meet him here in Iowa at a car show. Helluva nice guy. Even got his autograph on the "badcat".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/1bad67cat/1bad67cat/May29230.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/1bad67cat/1bad67cat/May29210.jpg

[Mercutio]

And on Sunday, Li'l John Buttera, the hot rod builder who first hired Boyd, passed away. For my money I would have rather had a Buttera car but to each his own.

[pro street rich]

I got a car from him years ago. He was fine with me on the deal. The whole time we worked together was a good time. If he said something, it would happen just the way he said it would. The car hobby will miss him.....Rich

[cudaz101]

RIP Boyd!!!


Some get so wrapped up in these forums that they apparently lose sight of just showing some simple respect. For example.....THE DEAD!!??? Come on now...Is this really the time and place to air out your opinions of a guy (in this case a LEGEND) that just recently passed on??:rolleyes:

Not tryin' to step on any toes but come on...??


Brad