Thread: Boyd Coddington Dead

The Boyd Foose thing is true though, Foose learnt alot of his skills working for boyd until the relationship went sour for some reason, hence Boyd getting so upset loosing employees to Chip. I dont blame Charlie and Mike for leaving, i couldnt work with dwayne.

Not wanting to speak ill of the dead, but Boyd was pretty full of himself. Chip Foose probably went to Coddington to learn from the acknowledged master. You can only learn so much from your dad and you need to see other perspectives.

What master tradesman expects that his apprentice won't go out on his own, only an egoist, who knew what a tallent Chip Foose was and is. However from Coddington's perspective, he was losing that tallent and his cars would be that much less for the loss of Chip.

I do not understand why Boyd wouldn't allow Charlie to go and do that one special car with Chip and return. It all comes down to ego.

Diana

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Not wanting to speak ill of the dead, but Boyd was pretty full of himself. Chip Foose probably went to Coddington to learn from the acknowledged master. You can only learn so much from your dad and you need to see other perspectives.

What master tradesman expects that his apprentice won't go out on his own, only an egoist, who knew what a tallent Chip Foose was and is. However from Coddington's perspective, he was losing that tallent and his cars would be that much less for the loss of Chip.

I do not understand why Boyd wouldn't allow Charlie to go and do that one special car with Chip and return. It all comes down to ego.

Diana

Well said, had i of been boyd i would have considered it a good thing that Chip Foose wanted to source tallent from my workshop, yet over some petty bull**** he lost probably one of the best panel beater/painters in the business.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

That's interesting because Chip credits his father (also a hot rod builder) for a lot of his skills, and most importantly for developing Chip's love of cars particularly hot rods.

Diana

Yes, that all good and true. But he went to work for Boyd as a young fella and was Boyds head buider for a number of year. Not sure how deep the fued went or wether most of it was hype. I know that Boyd did regard him as family. I sincerely believe the grumpy, difficult tyrant character may have been mostly a put on for TV.
Chip comes across as a really nice guy and Boyd as a grumpy old bugger, but thats TV. None of us will ever really know what he was really like.
I still have the upmost respect for his work and ideas as I do with Chips.
Now Overhaulin Australia with Chip and the crew doing up my SS, Id like to see that.

It was believed that there may have been a feud over alledged fraudulent activities. Can not be confiremed.
Another snippet Jesse James was also a builder for Boyd. I believe about similar times to Foose.
There is also a bit of a dispute over who really designed Cadzilla for Billy Gibbons, wether it was Boyds or Chips creation. At the end of the day it came from Coddingtons shop.
Talented man all the same.

Originally Posted by CraigE

I would be more than happy for either Boyd or Foose to come out and restore my SS Torana for me.
Like him or not he was on of the great Hot Rodders and Foose learnt most of what he knows from Boyd. Some of you may not be aware that Foose and Boyd used to be real closes and Foose was Boyds protoge.
RIP Boyd.

Rod it yes, restore it no. I wouldn't let any of those clowns near a rare classic car.

I was disgusted the day they rodded that green vintage ute that had been restored to original (can't remember what it was, but I think it was a Ford). Faithfully restored and rare as all ****, but it was just an easy build to him. He was determined to build this rod in an impossible time frame and did. (don't remember his name - looks like Cletus).

Originally Posted by 100I

Rod it yes, restore it no. I wouldn't let any of those clowns near a rare classic car.

I was disgusted the day they rodded that green vintage ute that had been restored to original (can't remember what it was, but I think it was a Ford). Faithfully restored and rare as all ****, but it was just an easy build to him. He was determined to build this rod in an impossible time frame and did. (don't remember his name - looks like Cletus).

I believe that would be Mike, the one who was sacked for designing wheels for chip on boyds time. he looks like Cletus because he was in a bad smash with Boyds son on the salt lakes or somewhere similar.

Originally Posted by Ace

I believe that would be Mike, the one who was sacked for designing wheels for chip on boyds time. he looks like Cletus because he was in a bad smash with Boyds son on the salt lakes or somewhere similar.

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now I feel bad.