I got a phone call earlier from RJ saying that Boyd Coddington passed away. Here is a link to the article.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...n103701S80.DTL

Sucks that hot rodding has lost a big legend

RIP Boyd

 

I heard about this earlier. It's a sad day for car guys everywhere!

 

word...very ufortunate

 

I still can't beleive it. He was young too

 

Yep, I text messaged him at noon when I made this post
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=212688 Very very sad, but he was an @ss... well a legendary one at that with some amazing talent.

 

aww that suxs, and i liked his show alot.

 

Had no idea that you had made a post on this already.

 

Just teasing ya. Yeah it sucks I got a call from a buddy in cali this morning & he told me to google it, he found it by accident and thought it was a hoax. Then about 11am all the reports started to go around as he had been in and out of the hospital for unknow reasons & passed away @ 6am today. Heck yahoo or MSN still do not have the story on the front page which is shocking.

What really bummed me out was the total lack of careing on this forum that the tragedy happened. I personally did not like the guy much but a legend is a legend and he deserves respect & a RIP like you have him in this post.

 

He wasn't my favorite Hot Rod builder either. I got to meet him up at the Goodguys car show up in Scottsdale and he wasn't the friendliest person but I do have a lot of respect for the talent that he had and he will always be looked at as a legend. I really did enjoy his TV show American Hot Rod though.