Boyd Coddington passed away :-(

[87MonteSS]

RIP Boyd

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... ype=health

 

[New3ra]

holy sh*t.

:shock:

 

[andrewmp6]

Yulp hes gone he will be missed by a lot of people.

 

[Rockstar]

Thats crazy he, wasnt even that old was he?

 

[Silent viewer]

crazy as hell!! too young.....

 

[78mali350]

that's to bad. he was one of the few big muscle cars guys around sad to see him go

 

[clean8485]

Sorry to hear about that. Kind of a shame too. He was scheduled to make an appearance at a custom car show here in Toronto in a couple of weeks. It would have been interesting to see him, after watching his show for the past few years.

 

[Uncletruck]

That is a shame. I enjoyed watching American Hot Rod, although if I worked for Boyd I would throw that Duane AH right through a wall head first just to get myself fired LOL!

Boyd did many interesting restorations, although I wondered with all the work that was put in to some of the cars they ended up only being about 10% original and that made me think they would be better off just fabricating reproductions from scratch. It was all stuff WAY out of my affordability league and not really my own taste, but the man was very well respected and definitely knew his stuff and had his niche.

-UT-

 

[twisted]

anyone hear what the cause of his death was? I tried searching but came up empty handed.

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

I came up with several things, but nothing conclusive. I read it was either liver failure, stroke, or complications stemming from his diabetes coupled with a surgery that he died in the middle of.

I am not a huge fan of high dollar cars like he and Foose build, but nonetheless he was a very talented individual who added much to the hobby. His presence will be sorely missed.