[Fot] Fw: ALERT: Hot-rod builder Boyd Coddington dies

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/awo19>  Boyd Coddington, shown signing an autograph during the SEMA show last
October.
                        Hot-rod builder Boyd Coddington
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                        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
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