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>> > For anyone that knew him or cares:
>> >
>
http://jalopnik.com/361736/boyd-coddingtons-company-releases-statement-cause-of-death-still-vague
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Oddly enough I care.
>>
>> I used to watch his American Hotrod series, it was the only "reality"
>> show
> I
>> actually liked. But I lost touch with it.
>>
>> This is the first I've heard of his death, and frankly, I'm a gutted.
He
>> came across as a great guy. Sure the TV show made him look a bit of a
>> tyrant, but you could tell that underneath that he was basically a good
> man.
>>
>> AC
>
> Perhaps, he was pretty nasty toward anyone that wasn't, what
> he perceived to be, "loyal" to him and had some strikingly less
> than generous things to say about a former friend and employee,
> the gifted Chip Foose, who committed the great and unforgivable
> (in Boyd's eye) crime of (the horror) going into business for himself.
>
>
I wouldn't deny any of that. Many times I thought him a complete ass-hole.
In fact, since reading your initial post, I've been hoping arround the
forums and read some pretty terrible stuff.
However, the overall impression I got was that of a man who was
essentially
an artist, but had to run a business to allow his 'art' to flourish. Like
a
stereotypical artist, he didn't really understand people or business at
all.
Had he been able to just design cars, I think he and those around him
would
have been much happier. But underneath it all I think he was a good bloke.
AC
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