Re: [Amc-list] Boyd Coddington, Hot Rod King, Dead At Age 63

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hey, don't look at me to flame you.
If he was dick to Joe shmoe in public and you were around him for to days, well, I'll take your word for it.
Some of the $#!t he did on the show and some of the guys who worked there came across as real pieces of...
Quite possible the real personna showed thru.
I'd expect no less then an obit to be nice to the guy.

63 is still too young for someone who had the means he did.
unless it was cancer, or an accident, then, we're all fair game.

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
" Chronic Pain Hurts"

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: WILLIAM SERCKIE <realtorbill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> It always seemed that the show was written with a bit of arrogance but to hear 
> that he was that way in real life does not surprise me...Maybe success just went 
> too his head.
> Chip Foose, one of Boyd's main protege's however, seems to be the nicest guy in 
> the world...
>   
> d stohler <das24rules@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   sad to hear about that. 
> 
> i did get to meet him at tulsarama last summer. that
> big tulsa ok show where they dug up the 57 belvedere.
> i will say, MANY of the "do it yourself with what you
> got and can afford" guys like myself, got REALLY
> ticked off at him. because we didnt have the money to
> do everything at once, he was really a real dick to
> alot of guys about their cars. very rude comments and
> stuff. some guys (like myself) that car means the
> world to us, and he makes snide comments about it. 
> 
> he did have some cool designs and all. but really,
> from being around him for a couple days in tulsa, he
> wasnt much different there than he was on the show. i
> kinda think that he really was an a$$.
> 
> so now, i guess its time for flames to fly towards me
> for saying this??
> 
> dave stohler
> http://picasaweb.google.com/das24rules
> 
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