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Boyd Coddington, shown signing an
autograph during the SEMA show last October.
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Hot-rod
builder Boyd Coddington dies
By Mark Vaughn
| 02/27/08, 12:49
pm et
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 Wednesday morning of undisclosed
causes. He was 63.
Coddington was raised in rural Idaho but
moved to Southern California as soon as he
could 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. Names such as Boydster,
Smoothster, Alumacoupe and Chezoom redefined
what a rod could be.
His wheels were equally well known,
particularly those shaved from billet
aluminum. He soon earned the nickname
"Billet...
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