Boyd

Something I need to get off my chest:

If I post this on other boards I use, it would start a seething flame war because everyone is a sensitive little pussy who doesn't believe in capital punishment, or making others feel bad about themselves for consistently fucking up in life, much less insult the dead.

Anyhooo

Boyd Coddington died last week. Hopefully his legacy did too.

A lot of people have been on message boards I frequent, calling him a pioneer, visionary, etc. He was not.

What Boyd Coddington did (along with certain few others) was take a backyard hobby and turn it into a multi-million dollar rich boys club, essentially robbing those that started it of future undertakings.

He led the way for all these fucking retirees with fat wallets to take a perfectly good deuce coupe, and retrofit it with air conditioning, power windows, and automatic transmissions, and turned car meets into family friendly, ‘no burnouts please!’ bullshit. Your fucking family doesn't need to be involved with everything you do. Nobody wants sticky fingered little kids running in between cars with melty soft serve ice cream cones. It's bad enough that we have to endure candy-sweet '50s music on full blast (fucking rockabilly PLEASE! Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee...definitely not the fucking Beach Boys).

If you want a car with air, buy a fucking new one. Little kids deserve to be scared by uncapped headers and lopey cams. It inspires certain few. Billet aluminum does not.