Posted on 02/27/2008 9:53:00 AM PST by RangerM
World-renowned tuner and hot rod king Boyd Coddington died at 6:20 am this morning. The cause of death is still unknown.
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RIP Boyd.
He was a nice man.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Look at the cast on the show. Pick one.
I liked when the one guy quit and turned up a few weeks later on Foose's TV show.
I have to wonder about all those "reality" shows, I think they must create "drama" and conflict for the show, no one I know would work at any of the companies I've seen featured if they were as shown on TV.
It was a TV show, so maybe some of the drama was intentional.
peoples jobs were lost....
You shoulda tried collecting a payment from him...
I probably watched most of the episodes, but had to quit because I got stressed out just watching. Every car featured had a short deadline, a frantic rush at the end, and a shop full of other cars that just sat there week after week after week. Some of the employees should have been fired long ago, like “Blue Bear”, what a punk troublemaker. His foreman has one operational mode - yelling and insulting. All the turmoil, yelling, and the mad rush to complete cars on time got to be too much to sit through, and I had to grit my teeth at all the cars delivered with the paint still wet, untested for leaks, etc, etc, etc. Too stressful to watch.
Rest in eternal peace.
I always watch to see how many time I caught him trying to do stuff and he didn't know spit about it.
The only one that really was fun to watch was the old man, former fireman, that passed a couple of years back. The one that liked to drink and moon the train!
I always watch to see how many time I caught him trying to do stuff and he didn't know spit about it.
The only one that really was fun to watch was the old man, former fireman, that passed a couple of years back. The one that liked to drink and moon the train!
Rest in Peace Boyd...
As an observer of the hot rod scene since the 60’s I never heard of this guy until his show came on the air. Maybe I’m just ignorant but I got the impression that he catered to aging yuppies of my generation as opposed to making cutting edge designs. Foose is similar. He’s really a designer/bodyman. None of them build their own motors or do anything mechanically innovative preferring to enlist the aftermarket industry to supply they with modules to plug into their “creations”. Oh well, if they can make a buck and build a rep to prosper who am I to criticize.
It was a TV show about working relationships and included all the various stereotypes. You see this all the time on these shows: you have the quiet thinker, the dumb as a board goof-off, the boss’s punching bag, the mean boss, etc, etc. Who would watch a show about nice, normal guys actually building cars? Maybe a few of us, but not enough to keep viewer’s tuning in. Throw in an impossible deadline to build the car and you have a show.
Did a liberal DFU regular slip under the door?
Boyd didn't "force" his employees to do anything. It's the nature of working in that environment and the door swings both ways.
They were there because the wanted to be. The day that want stopped would be the day they walked out and I don't see the problem.
Stand by for endless “American Hotrod” reruns...
How old is the “American Chopper” dad?
Yeah, but eventually the guy was going to run out of customers.
I mean, who the heck would want one of his cars after watching how bad Coddington’s crew screwed things up, hid it, and then delivered the rush-job to an unsuspecting customer? I build cars as a hobby, and watching American Hot Rod was not only an example of how not to run a business but an example of how NOT to modify/build/restore a car.
Both my father and I have met him. Suffice it to say, I won’t comment on our opinions of him in this public forum.
I have a friend in the car restoration industry (makes parts) who told me that Boyd went under big time once and that the company on the show was basically in his wife’s name.
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