I met him once through some friends of mine that knew him real well. The persona on American Hot Rod was nothing like the man I met. He and his wife were very pleasant, spent a couple of hours with them.
Dak content: Boyd Smoothies on my truck.
Phil
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From: "jon@dakota-truck.net" <jon@dakota-truck.net>
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:24:22 PM
Subject: Re: DML: OT: Boyd Coddington of American Hot Rod passed away
After watching a few seasons of American Hot Rod, I came away with
an *extremely* low opinion of Boyd and stopped watching the show, but
you never want to hear this sort of news. I hadn't heard that he had
been having health problems. When I saw the title of this post, the
first thing I thought was "heart attack", but I wonder if this has
anything to do with the Tulsa, OK '57 Plymouth?
For those who may be unfamiliar with it, the city of Tulsa, OK
buried a brand new Plymouth Belvedere in 1957 as a time capsule to be
dug up in 2007. Unfortunately, they were really, really, *really*
stupid about the way they did it and the car basically spent 50 years
underwater. It was a complete basket case when they brought it up.
Although an actual Mopar guy had been scheduled for the event (Herb
McCandless, I believe), Boyd Coddington was called in at the last
minute by the still stupid City of Tulsa because of his higher name
recognition. Boyd and his crew basically did the work of getting the
rusty hood and trunk open, getting into the interior, etc. I heard
that his entire crew got really sick from the toxic soup that the car
had been bathing in. Makes me wonder if his health problems had
anything to do with that.
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-Jon-
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