Boyd Coddington, Hot-Rod King, Dead at Age 63

Jalopnik ^ | February 27, 2009

[RangerM]

World-renowned tuner and hot rod king Boyd Coddington died at 6:20 am this morning. The cause of death is still unknown.

[Spktyr]

Wikipedia has been known to be wrong/inaccurate before, too.

[briandog]

Hate to inform you, but all of that stuff was scripted just for the show. READ!

[kaktuskid]

The street rods sites are saying it was an inherited (meaning not alcohol related) liver failure combined with diabetes.

More than likely aggravated by long-term exposure to paints and solvents-which is very hard on the liver.

[CommerceComet]

Several people on a hot rod website I visit know Duane and they say he is not like that in real life.

That's often true. I quit watching the show because I only liked two of the guys. Charlie, the painter, who seemed far more capable of running the shop than Boyd or the foreman who seems to have chronic PMS. The other guy I liked was the grouchy old fabricater whose name I forget but had the attitude of "just leave me alone and I'll get it done." (He was the one that worked with the black guy who talked all the time.)

[Kickass Conservative]

Don’t mix up contrived TV drama with the reality of who the man was. He was a very generous person, ran a Charitable organization and was an icon in his field.
May he rest in peace.

[The Citizen Soldier]

The other guy I liked was the grouchy old fabricater whose name I forget but had the attitude of "just leave me alone and I'll get it done."

Roy.

[Freeper]

#16 - "With all due respect to the deceased, the show was a seminar on how NOT to run a business."

You are correct, the show was a perfect example of a bad example!