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R.I.P. Boyd Coddington
:( me acaban de pasar esta noticia en el messenger :S
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World-renowned tuner and hot rod king Boyd Coddington died at 6:20 am this morning. The cause of death is still unknown. Coddington, founder of Boyds Wheels and designer of prize-winning custom cars, 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 spoke
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un poco de su historia para los que no lo conocen..
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Much has been written about Boyd Coddington, and viewers might infer even more from watching Boyd's television show, American Hot Rod. Everyone wants to know what makes this guy tick, but few come close. One thing that can be said with some certainty is that this postwar baby-boomer has no use for a pilot light. His mental and physical burners have been on full-bore from Day One, cooking up an endless stream of ideas in vehicles, wheels, and much more. Along with the dreams and visions, Boyd grew up in a time and place where everyone was expected to pull their own weight, and when something broke around the place, you didn't buy a new one, you fixed what you had. Pretty soon you started making your own stuff you needed from steel or wood you had on hand. This kind of adaptation and ingenuity was a tailor-made resume for entering the post-war hot rod movement.
That Boyd Coddington is a household name is no stretch. Recognition of any kind would be something special for a car-loving kid who grew up rural Idaho, but from his hot rod "shop" beginnings in his home garage in Cypress, California in the late Sixties, Boyd set a standard for his workmanship, creativity and thinking from which he's never deviated. Hot rod afficionados who saw some of those first cars he produced many not have recognized the stocky guy with the Hawaiian shirt at that time, but they noticed that all his cars shared the same look and level of detail. Smooth, integrated, no hiccups, nothing extraneous; they were surgery-room clean in form and function.
He and contemporary Li'l John Buttera, who had made his fame building drag-racing funny cars before he got into street rods, were both master machinists and had developed a new aesthetic for rods, something that doesn't happen everyday in a largely tradition-minded hobby. Rather than buy a reproduction of a vintage Ford rearview mirror as a restorer might do, they would take a block of aluminum and with lathe and mill "carve away everything that didn't look like a mirror." It was the beginning of the billet phenomena. Many shops got on the bandwagon eventually, but they missed the point by writing a CNC program to produced billet parts in quantity, and soon everyone had the same mirrors, or gas caps or other billet parts. Boyd's take on using his machine shop was never to mass-produce anything, it was a way to create a unique and different part every time, to actually build things as one-offs, and of course he became famous in the car community by even building a set of four unique billet wheels for many of his eager customer's cars. This was genuine customizing in the modern world, as different artistically from the norm as the old-time customizers like Westergard, Sam Barris and Gene Winfield were in their day compared to those who just dechromed cars and changed grilles.
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