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American Hot Rod is a reality TV Series on The Learning Channel and Discovery Channel. The crewmembers in the show build hot rods and custom cars in Boyd Coddington's shop located in La Habra, California. The series showcases the crew of Boyd Coddington, along with their constant struggles to build custom cars under extremely tight deadlines. The show is also well known for its regular firings and constant turnover of crewmembers. Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ...
Boyd Leon Coddington (born 1944)[1] is the owner of the Boyd Coddington hot rod shop and star of American Hot Rod on the Discovery Channel. ...
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Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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T-Bucket hot rod Hot rods are older, often historical, cars. ...
A custom 1974 Ford Taunus 2000 GXL. The car has had a roof chop, been shaved of all trim, with vents cut into the rear quarter panels and an all steel body kit moulded into the body. ...
Boyd Leon Coddington (born 1944)[1] is the owner of the Boyd Coddington hot rod shop and star of American Hot Rod on the Discovery Channel. ...
La Habra is a city located in the northwestern corner of Orange County, California, United States. ...
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Some of the cars featured in the show are: the Alumatub, Silver Bullet, Vern Luce's coupe, Cadzilla and many more of Boyd Coddington's custom creations. In July 2007, a new series of episodes showcase the build of a Elvis Tribute Car - a 1957 Cadillac sponsored by the Reese's Company.
Crewmembers
| Person | Position | | Boyd Coddington | Owner/Manager | | Jo Coddington | Owner/Office Manager | | Diane Coddington | Head of Accounting | | Duane Mayer | Shop Manager | | Lee Hayes | Metal work | | Ralph | Body Work | | Todd | Advertising | | Greg | Wheel Salesperson | | Brad | Fabricator/asssembler | | Dan Sobieski | Fabricator/assembler | | Al Simon | Chassis/Fabricator | | Bernt Karlson | Body Work | Boyd Leon Coddington (born 1944)[1] is the owner of the Boyd Coddington hot rod shop and star of American Hot Rod on the Discovery Channel. ...
Past members • Chad "Bluebear" Geary was fired for insubordination.
• Charley Hutton left the show and now works for Boyd's competitor Chip Foose. Chip Foose (born October 6, 1963) is a renowned hot rod shop owner, automotive designer and fabricator, and star of Overhaulin on TLC. // Foose began working on automobiles at age seven for his fathers company (Project Design). ...
• Al Simon (chassis builder) quit after the Rat Rod build-off and has now returned.
• Thomas Loddby (fabricator) left to start a shipping business and has since returned.
• Mike Curtis (machinist) was fired for designing wheels for competitor, ex-employee and nemesis Chip Foose. Chip Foose (born October 6, 1963) is a renowned hot rod shop owner, automotive designer and fabricator, and star of Overhaulin on TLC. // Foose began working on automobiles at age seven for his fathers company (Project Design). ...
• Roy Schmidt, veteran metal worker, died ending his long battle with lung cancer. He was 64.
• Scott Parker (fabricator) set out to work for himself and ended up working for Chip Foose. Chip Foose (born October 6, 1963) is a renowned hot rod shop owner, automotive designer and fabricator, and star of Overhaulin on TLC. // Foose began working on automobiles at age seven for his fathers company (Project Design). ...
• Andrew "Beetle Bailey" Petterson left with Hutton to work for Chip Foose. Chip Foose (born October 6, 1963) is a renowned hot rod shop owner, automotive designer and fabricator, and star of Overhaulin on TLC. // Foose began working on automobiles at age seven for his fathers company (Project Design). ...
• Willie Johnstone (custom painter) has since returned to New Zealand and opened his own custom paint shop in Tauranga. Tauranga (population 109,100 — 2006 census) is the largest city of the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand. ...
First Season: (2004) | Image | Title | Original Airdate | | "Junkyard Dog Pt 1" | January 13, 2004 | | On this episode of American Hot Rod, Boyd Coddington and his crew resurrect a classic '56 Chevy. Rescued from a rust bucket grave yard, but turning this Junkyard Dog is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
into a high end Hot Rod, pushes tensions to breaking point and puts the Coddington crew's
metal to the test. The talents and the tempers, the drama and the drive.
| | "Junkyard Dog Pt 2" | January 24, 2004 | | Episode number 2 of the series finds the team dealing with extensive metal work problems particular to a car brought forth from the junkyard for resurrection into a is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
hot rod.
| | "Junkyard Dog Pt 3" | February 6, 2004 | | The "Junkyard Dog" has taken shape. The body is nearly finished and for once they look like they're ahead of schedule. Charlie starts to paint the car but his Dad is ill and he has to leave. The team celebrate Tommy's birthday with a party at Boyd's house. is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| | "Junkyard Dog Pt 4" | February 13, 2004 | | The paintwork is finished, the body remounted and the car is off to Gabes to have the interior done. Gabes pulls out all the stops and finish the car early. The car gets back to Boyd's for the final touches and Charlie arrives back is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
| | "Alumatub" (5 Parts) | 2004 | | The team build an aluminium hot rod from scratch. | | "32 Hi-Boy Roadster" (4 Parts) | 2004 | | Boyd resurrects a 32 Coupe 'the Coupester' as an educational exercise for the crew. | Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Second Season: (2004 - 05) | Image | Title | Original Airdate | | "65 Ford Mustang" (3 Parts) | 2004 | | The team rebuild a classic Mustang 2+2 fastback rescued from a barn. Boyd names it Crazy Horse. It was to be a birthday present for Scotty Gray's wife Nancy. The crew judge a bikini contest at Hooters bar and help with "Paint Your Heart Out, Anaheim". New members of the crew Sean Dooley and Jimy "Tig" Krauss are both dismissed during the build. | | "Rat Rod" (4 Parts) | 2004 | | Bluebear and Boyd compete to build Rat Rods. During the build, Bluebear is dismissed. | | "42 Woodie" (3 Parts) | 2005 | | The team rebuild a 42 Woodie. Fed up of the tight deadlines, Charley leaves to join Chip Foose. Boyd views this as unforgivable disloyalty. | | "63 Chevy Corvette Stingray" (3 Parts) | 2005 | | Sean Dove asks Boyd to build a Stingray that will serve as a street car, a show car and a race car. With no one to run the body shop, Dwayne must supervise both shops while Boyd paints the car himself. Lee joins the team as Roy's assistant. | | "Bud Light Car" (3 Parts) | 2005 | | Boyd builds a car for the Budweiser beer company for the launch of the new Bud Light product. He converts a 36 Coupe into a Roadster. Bernt Karlsson joins the crew as manager of the body shop. Al leaves to pursue his own projects. | | "Hildebrandt Car" (3 Parts) | 2005 | | Vern Hildebrandt asks Boyd to restore his 34 Roadster. His father Dennis "the Menace" Hildebrandt originally converted it to a Hot Rod in 1954 and raced it. Mike is given the task of leading the restoration. | | "59 Chevy Low Rider" (4 Parts) | 2005 | | Boyd buys a 1959 Chevrolet Impala Bel Air and helps the crew to transform it into a California-style speedster. Rocky Walker intends to present the "Ghetto Princess" and its matching motorcycle at Camp Pendleton to the US Marines heading for a tour of Iraq. During the build, Mike is found to be moonlighting for Chip Foose and is dismissed. | Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1958 Chevrolet Impala Convertible 1958 Chevrolet Impala Convertible The Chevrolet Impala is an automobile built for the Chevrolet division by General Motors. ...
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is near Oceanside, California. ...
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Third Season: (2005) | Image | Title | Original Airdate | | "Make-A-Wish Car" (3 Parts) | 2005 | | Boyd's crew build the “MaxHEMI”, a street rod designed by 16 year old Max Cohen, who is fighting leukaemia. The car is based on a 1963 Dodge Polara shell with a 572 CID Hemi crate motor. During the build, Dwayne gets a tattoo dedicated to Max and Thomas takes part in a gravity race at Monterey in a soapbox racer built by the crew in their spare time. Thomas leaves to concentrate on his shipping business. | Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Leukemia (leukaemia in Commonwealth English) is a group of blood diseases characterized by malignancies (cancer) of the blood-forming tissues. ...
The Dodge Polara was an automobile introduced in the United States for the 1960 model year as Dodges top-of-the-line fullsize car; after the introduction of the Dodge Custom 880 in 1962, the Polara nameplate designated a step below the best trimmed Dodge model. ...
Monterrey is a city in Nuevo León, Mexico. ...
Children racing soapbox cars A soapbox car (also variously known as a soapbox cart, and especially in Australia, billy cart) is a motorless vehicle capable of holding a driver (usually a child) built for the purpose of racing or recreation. ...
Fourth Season: (2006) | Image | Title | Original Airdate | | "54 Corvette and 55 Chevy" (3 Parts) | 2006 | | Description | | "56 Chevy Convertible" (3 Parts) | 2006 | | Description | | "61 Impala Bubbletop" (4 Parts) | 2006 | | Description | | "40 Ford" (3 Parts) | 2006 | | Description | | "36 Roadster" (3 Parts) | 2006 | | Description | | "40 Woodie" (3 Parts) | 2006 | | Description | | "31 Truck" (3 Parts) | 2007 | | Description | Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
Fifth Season: (2007) | Image | Title | Original Airdate | | "Hershey" (3 Parts) | July 2007 | | Description | | "Sobe" (3 Parts) | August 2007 | | Description | | "59 Corvette" (3 Parts) | August 2007 | | Description | | "Bonneville Racer" (3 Parts) | September 2007 | | Description | July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
For other uses, see August (disambiguation). ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
For other uses, see August (disambiguation). ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
For other uses, see September (disambiguation). ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
See also American Chopper: The Series is a Learning Channel reality television series produced by Pilgrim Films & Television Inc. ...
Monster Garage (2002–2006) was a popular television show for the Discovery Channel hosted by Jesse G. James. ...
This article is about the television show. ...
External links - American Hot Rod on IMDb
- Discovery Channel Fan Page for American HotRod
- Boyd Coddington's website
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