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FAREWELL TO A FORERUNNER; Boyd Coddington, 1944-2008.(Revs)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
Boyd Coddington, the hot-rod innovator whose creations won the coveted Grand National Roadster Show's America's Most Beautiful Roadster (AMBR) trophy a record six times, died Feb. 27 after a lengthy hospital stay. He was 63.
Coddington was raised in rural Rupert, Idaho, but as soon as he came of age, he moved to Southern California to pursue his dream of building hot rods. He quickly earned a reputation for subtle, stylistic innovations on what had been an almost overdone theme: the '32 Ford roadster. That branched out to '33s, '34s and then all manner of surprising twists on iconic themes.
Cars with names such as Boydster, Smoothster, Aluma Coupe and Chezoom redefined what a rod could be.
His wheels, at first designed to match each car, were equally well known. Coddington specialized in machining them from solid billet aluminum and soon earned the nickname "Billet Boyd.''
But perhaps his best quality, realized at the height of his creative passion in the mid-1990s, was his ability to gather a talented team to produce the creations he envisioned.
"His biggest talent was bringing talent to the table,'' said Chip Foose, who worked as a designer at Coddington's shop from 1989 to 1998. "It was like we were all spokes, but we had to attach to one hub. He was the hub. He gave us the freedom to create.''
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Source: HighBeam Research, FAREWELL TO A FORERUNNER; Boyd Coddington, 1944-2008.(Revs)