Daar zal mijn moeder niet blij mee zijn , is bekend waaraan
My condolences to the family of Boyd
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| Auteur: | fuchs [ 27 feb 2008 22:08 ] |
| Berichttitel: | Boyd Coddington overleden. |
Boyd Coddington, bekend van de Discovery Channel serie "American Hot Rod", is vandaag overleden. Met veel plezier keek ik altijd naar de serie over de bevlogen hotrod-bouwer Coddington. Rust in vrede. |
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| Auteur: | jeroenoop [ 27 feb 2008 22:14 ] |
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Daar zal mijn moeder niet blij mee zijn , is bekend waaraan
My condolences to the family of Boyd |
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| Auteur: | Erick [ 27 feb 2008 22:17 ] |
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Keek het soms wel. Ergerde me ontzettend aan die bedrijfsleider. (Duane) 
Duane 
Boyd |
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| Auteur: | fuchs [ 27 feb 2008 22:17 ] |
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De doodsoorzaak is nog niet bekend. Wel is Boyd de afgelopen maand meerdere malen in en uit het ziekenhuis geweest. Later op de dag zal het bedrijf met een persconferentie komen. |
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| Auteur: | Maarten [ 27 feb 2008 22:22 ] |
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Duane is inderdaad een vervelend baasje. Een likkertje zeg maar. |
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| Auteur: | Auke231 [ 27 feb 2008 22:46 ] |
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Ik was niet zo'n fan van de serie, te veel gezeur en te weinig auto's.. Chip Foose houd het meer bij de auto's en maakt mooier spul vind ik  wel jammer dat de man er niet meer is naruurlijk 
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| Auteur: | D.D. [ 27 feb 2008 23:00 ] |
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jammer, altijd veel gezeik, maar mega mooie eindprodukten......
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| Auteur: | fuchs [ 27 feb 2008 23:00 ] |
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Boyd Coddington was de leermeester van Chip Foose. Chip heeft jaren gewerkt bij / voor / met Boyd. Het vertrek van Chip is nooit in goede aarde gevallen bij Boyd. |
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| Auteur: | Jeroen914 [ 28 feb 2008 0:11 ] |
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RIP... Die man heeft decennia lang aan de top van de Hot Rod scene gestaan |
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| Auteur: | Tom80 [ 28 feb 2008 17:16 ] |
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Geen makkelijke vent om voor te werken, maakte wel mooie dingen. Beetje jong om het loodje te leggen. |
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| Auteur: | dreamer [ 28 feb 2008 17:42 ] |
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Veel afleveringen gezien op discovery. Gedreven man met en uitstekend oog voor het maken van prachtige rijdende kunstwerken. Alleen wel een enorme stress situatie daar op de werkvloer met idd nare mannetjes. |
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| Auteur: | craze [ 28 feb 2008 18:18 ] |
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aardige serie over hot rods 
Boyd was een autobouwer pur sang , jammer dat ie er niet meer is. kan Chip de fakkel overnemen, voor zover hij dat al niet gedaan had 
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| Auteur: | Meneer aard [ 28 feb 2008 20:49 ] |
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Was sowieso al kwestie van tijd dat Chip de tent daar uit kleedde (waren al 2 overgelopen ofsow). Wel zonde dat ie is heen gegaan. Keek altijd wel graag naar American HotRod (nu nog maar jah herhalingen). |
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| Auteur: | Marcel B. [ 28 feb 2008 23:10 ] |
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Een terublik op z'n Engels... By 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 Wednesday morning after a lengthy hospital stay. He was 63. Coddington was raised in rural Rupert, Idaho, but as soon as he came of age 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, Alumacoupe and Chezoom redefined what a rod could be. "When you saw a Boyd car you knew it was a Boyd car," said Chip Foose, who worked as a designer at Boyd's shop from 1989 to 1996. His wheels were equally well known. They were first designed to match each car. Coddington specialized in machining them from billet aluminum, and soon earned the nickname "Billet Boyd." An eye for talent Perhaps his best trait, 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 Foose. "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." Brad Fanshaw, who was president of the Coddington Companies during its glory days in the '90s, said: "I always looked at him as a conceptual designer. He couldn't draw himself but he had the concepts in his head and he would stand behind (designers) Chip (Foose), Larry (Erickson) and Thom (Taylor) and say, 'Yeah, that's what I want." In the early '90s he had assembled one of the best teams ever, including designer Foose and builder Lil' John Buttera, to produce some of the best hot rods the hobby had ever seen, raising the level of what could be expected from such a craft. Simplicity an early theme His early works were swaddled in simple, flowing lines. The Foose-designed Boydster was an early Coddington interpretation of the iconic '32 Ford roadster, but Boyd's take was stretched three inches, lowered and smoothed out beyond what anyone else had ever done. "We were cleaning up the cars at the time," designer Thom Taylor said. He started working with Coddington in the 1970s while still a student at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. "We were removing the door handles and the hinges, straightening out the contours of the frame, no louvers, no little trinket things, so that was kind of the theme for most of these cars," Taylor said. The subsequent Boydsters II and III carried that theme but with full, flowing fenders. The Smoothster was a yellow, full-fendered '37 Ford riding on Corvette mechanicals and a Corvette drivetrain. A Corvette engine also powered the Taylor-designed Chezoom, a '57 Chevy so heavily modified that only 10 percent of the original sheetmetal remained. It was still unmistakably a '57, just unlike any '57 ever seen before, with a lowered, channeled body and a reclining cruiser elegance not normally associated with the muscle of the original. Like Chezoom, Cadzilla was a reclined cruiser take on a more modern Cadillac. Designed by Larry Erickson and built by Coddington for ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons, it is one of his most well-known creations. Coddington experimented with aluminum in offbeat creations such as the Mitsubishi-powered Alumacoupe, the truck-based AlumaTruck and the shiny Aluma-Dub-Tub. Cable TV star Coddington went through his share of troubles, including a bankruptcy in the late 1990s. He is best known outside the rodding community for his Discovery Channel show, "American Hot Rod," which often showed his short-tempered side. "The show was ridiculous," said Taylor. "I've been in his shop for years and years and I've never seen it like that. I think the show was really contrived. That wasn't Boyd, that wasn't how it worked." Love him or loathe him, his influence on hot rods and customs cannot be overstated. “In an era where most cars were hobbed-together fiberglass junk, he changed an industry by demanding old-world coach building techniques,” said one-time Coddington employee Jesse James. “He just had the eye for cleanliness and design. The cars that came out of that original hot rod shop were amazing examples of graceful craftsmanship.” "It is my firm belief that Boyd is the founding father of this street-rod movement," said Gary Meadors of the Goodguys. "From the Boyd cars to the Boyd billet aluminum wheels ... that whole smooth look that he brought to street rodding is what set him apart. He took our hobby to a whole other level with all the exposure he got in media outside our world. He was a forerunner, and he will be missed." Fanshaw said: "He elevated hot rodding into an art form. He raised the visibility of the hobby and gave it a broader acceptance in popular culture by getting his car on the cover of Smithsonian magazine, by working with Mitsubishi on the AlumaCoupe, by showing a car at the New York auto show. It gave the entire market legitimacy." Foose said: "He is the reason the industry is what it is today. He took what people were doing in their garages and put it into production and really legitimized this hobby into a business. Without him and Lil' John (Buttera) it would still be in garages." Coddington leaves a wife, Jo, and five sons. |
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