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The Spirit Of Boyd Limited Edition Wax
Available 7.20.15
"The Boyd Coddington Companies" have persistently remained the leaders in the industry due to our innovative approach and dedication to stay at the forefront. Today, to honor the memory of Boyd Coddington Sr. and to celebrate the launch of our brand new car care line of products, Boyd Coddington Jr. and Boyd
Coddington Detail Garage® will be offering an exclusive limited edition Carnauba Paste Wax, which comes packed in a Kustom billet aluminum container. We want to unveil this project in the same manner, Boyd Sr. would originally have, a product that has his name, and something that every collector would love to have.
The quality of this Limited Edition Wax is unmatched and features pure raw ingredients. Moreover, it has all the style and attribute that's typical of Boyd Coddington® by being neatly packed in Kustom 6061 T6 billet aluminum container. The signature wheel found on the lid is a special touch that only Boyd Coddington Garage® can offer. The container features a special airtight billet lid that consists of 5 sunken bolts made out of titanium, which can be removed with the help of a Boyd® Branded tool.
The Spirit Of Boyd Project Overview
It's in the Coddington nature to be fixated on taking the ordinary and making it extraordinary. Always keeping in mind, customers are our first priority and we strive to offer them the best products. We have made it a habit of meeting car enthusiasts and collectors who not only motivate us to create great products, but have become good friends and long-time patrons. In fact, a long time hot rod customer and good friend suggested the concept of the Limited Edition Wax. This customer has a collection of Boyd Built™ hot rods that are some of the earliest hot rods we ever built. What makes these hot rods even more special now, is that all of them are detailed exclusively with the Boyd Coddington Detail Garage® products.
While dealing with the professional detailers, we realized that it is quite crucial for the product to be produced from the best ingredients the earth has to offer. The key ingredient used in this wax is the Brazilian Carnauba. Part of the secret formula that makes this product the best in the market is that it contains more carnauba content. In addition, we use a revolutionary and proprietary filtering process and added a perfect blend of exotic oils collected from different parts of the world. Because the container is manufactured from 6061 T6 billet aerospace aluminum, it also provides as a sealant that will give the wax an extended shelf life. Depending upon the climatic and how you use it on your car or hot rod, you can expect a good protection of 6-12 months. The Spirit Of Boyd carnauba wax is a 100% "Made in the USA", and we will only produce 499 containers to be able to provide the best quality wax, and to insure the maximum value of the collectable container. Three containers are scheduled for auction with a fixed amount of the proceeds donated to the Elway Foundation.
6061 T6 Billet Aluminum Container
Our goal was to create the most unique container the automotive car care industry has ever seen. Apart from the wax itself, we had to create a revolutionary product combined with the most sought after billet collectable we have ever created. We designed the lid so that the lug nuts actually fit into the PCD of the wheel in order to make the canister airtight. The airtight canister also ensures longer life of the product, and prevents it from getting contaminated.
Our Final Product
Waxing is the way to a perfect shine, and when it comes to Boyds Limited Edition Carnauba Wax, its pure natural Carnauba ingredient ensures optimum shine. It contains zero synthetic compounds and no cleaning properties. It's a formulation of beeswax, natural oils and waxes, and involves the use of our perfected refined petroleum distillate. Apart from giving best protection, the Boyds carnauba wax has been specially created to ensure a perfect finish that details the depth of the paint and its warmth.
In the early R&D of this product, we gave car care enthusiasts and detailing professionals samples of our refined & formulated waxes to find out which sample they thought was the best. It's because of their valuable feedback that we were able to create the Boyds Limited Edition Carnauba Wax. It's the perfect product for those who want a show winning shine, and a collectable that is sure to be a piece of Boyd Coddington history.
Some Key Features
The Perfect combination of natural oils and 100% Brazilian White Carnauba.
The unique proprietary filtering procedure ensures refined wax of optimum quality.
Comes in a Collector's edition 6061 T-6 aluminum billet container.
Each container is numbered and issued with a certificate of authenticity
Limited production, only 499 will be produced!
Tested by world-renowned detailers of luxury cars, concept cars & hot rods.
Call us now to pre-order yours. Each Spirit Of Boyd Limited Edition Carnauba Wax carries with it a matching numbered certificate of authenticity. For those who warrant the best, this is a prized possession.
1949 Chevrolet Convertible
This 1949 Chevrolet Conver
tible was designed and built Boyd Coddington and his crew at the Stanton hot rod shop in 1993. Retaining the basic external looks and characteristics of the now sixty one year old classic automobile, this now rare 1949 Chevrolet Convertible features most of the luxury items and
comforts that you might expect to find in a modern high performance automobile. These features include a high performance fuel injected motor, automatic transmission, power four wheel disc brakes, power rack & pinion steering, a luxury upholstered two tone leather interior, solenoid operated doors as well as a sophisticated state of the art multi speaker CD stereo system.
With custom one-off wheels designed by Boyd Coddington Jr., and the Ron Mangus upholstered two-tone leather interior. As expected the caliber of all work performed on this unique hot rod is as you have come to expect from Boyd Coddington Garage.
Vehicle Make: Chevrolet
Model: Styleline
Engine: Balanced & blueprinted 350 cubic inch LT-1 motor
Transmission: Turbo 350
Gauges: VDO
Steering wheel: Boyds Kustom one off
Wheels: Custom one off wheels Boyd Coddington Jr. designed
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Buz Divosta's 46 Ford Convertible
Wild rides are one thing but most hot rodders would agree that any self-respecting collection needs a little variety. There are certain days for driving cars like a Boydster, days when you can fully enjoy the thrill of putting the hammer down on a truly individual car. Sometimes, however, you need to be behind the wheel of something more dignified, something a little less flashy. It can still shout hot rod loud and clear and it can still have a lot more performance than most cars, but it is nevertheless subtle. Such is this Boyd Coddington built 46 Ford convertible built for Buz Divosta, which was completed in 1992 and was featured in the July 1993 issue of Smithsonian magazine. Based on an original chassis fitted with Corvette independent suspension front and rear, powered by a 454 Chevy big-block crate motor painted red to match the exterior. With fuel fed by a four barrel Holley carb, the motor mates through a Turbo-Hydro 350 transmission to a Corvette center section. The rack-and-pinion steering is likewise Corvette and the tilt column is a GM part. The ride is fairly stock except for some subtle modifications. For example, the headlights have been frenched, the hood has been shaved, as has the deck lid, the running boards are blistered and custom rear lights have been frenched into the rear fenders. Also, the bumpers have been smoothed and the grille was painted body color. The chrome side trim is original, but all other chrome, with the exception of the smoothed out bumpers, has been removed. Many hot rod convertibles have been fitted with a Carson-style top but Buz chose to keep his folding top original that seems to be a trend with some of today's rodders. Upholstered in beige material, the top matches the interior that is upholstered in tan leather. Interestingly, there is no stereo in the '46 but there is air conditioning, which makes for comfortable cruising, especially when you're riding on a set of three-spoke Boyd Coddington wheels.
Michael Anthonys 34 Roadster
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When Michael Anthony of Van Halen decided to build a hot rod, he came to Boyds, threw out his ideas of a screaming, mean fenderless highboy with flames. Chip Foose drew some initial concepts and after a few style changes, the build commenced. The chassis was fabricated by the very talented Larry Sergejeff. Like 95% of our frames, Michael's roadster was built on a fully independent suspension front and rear. The rear of the hot rod sported our normal corvette center section with a twist, we added Michaels trademark, we milled a small chili pepper into the billet aluminum cover. The third member is skirted by a chrome tubular steel A-arms and Carrera coil over shocks or a Mustang II-style front suspension.
The chassis rolls on Boyds Wheels Vintage II wheels with 275/60R l5 BF Goodrich Radial T/A tires in back and 185/60R 14s in front. Power for this flaming' hot chili pepper is provided by a 350 Chevrolet small-block which is fitted with a Holley carb, polished aluminum valve covers and a Boyds billet aluminum air filter assembly. Backing up the 300 horsepower motor is a 700/R4 automatic fitted with a floor mounted Gennie Shifter.
Subsequent to the chassis being completed, the steel '34 Roadster body, a product of the Babbs Company, had its floor removed so that it could be dropped, or channeled, over the frame rails two inches at the front. A wedge section was then removed from the lower front portion of the body to allow it to sit parallel to the bottom of the frame. Of course, the lower front section of the cowl, including the bead, was reformed.
The chassis and body were then delivered to Marcel DeLay where a new three-piece aluminum hood was fabricated around a '34 grille which had been sectioned 2-1/2 inches and laid back until it looked right- about 2-1/2 inches. The grille insert, which hides a black painted radiator from Continental Radiator, is a fully polished stainless steel item from D.F. Metalworks.
What hot rod would be complete for a guy like Michael Anthony without a custom-built billet bass guitar? Designed by Chip Foose every detail was integrated into the guitar, from the tuning keys down to the volume tone control knobs and were precisely etched with the Boyds logo. Billet guitar picks were handed out to the guests that attended the exclusive presentation of the guitar to Michael at the Hard Rock Café in Newport Beach. In fact, so much buzz was created by the guitar that Tim Allen and Jay Leno brought it up in conversation on the tonight show. The billet guitar isn't just a conversation piece, Michael actually carries it on stage and it plays it for at least a couple sets and yes, it plays as good as it looks. A couple of sets is about all he gets, being constructed out of billet, it weighs just a little bit more that his other guitars.
56 Chevy by Boyd Coddington
1956 Chevy Coddington Style
When it comes to hot rod design, job number one is usually a matter of clearing away clutter. Even the 56 Chevrolet, a car justifiably celebrated as one of Detroit's most clean lined marriages of form and function, had its share of fussy ornamentation and unnecessary visual intrusions. Take a look at the original version of this convertible, and you'll find a busy, egg-crate grille, front and rear bumper guards that stand upright with a stiff, clunky formality, and a hood ornament resembling a stylized jet in flight. Just below that chrome airplane was a broad "V" cradling a crest, as if this perky little Chevy ragtop needed a coat of arms worthy of a Coupe de Ville. And since the stylists of the day believed that anything worth doing once was worth doing twice, the V-and-crest appears on the deck lid as well as the hood. Boyd gave this '56 Chevy a nose-and-deck job, getting rid of the chrome paraphernalia that Detroit was so fond of back in the day-a day when, oddly enough, hot rodders and customizers were already plucking off stock crests and toy planes and smoothing the empty sockets with body lad or Bondo. Boyd sliced away the bumper guards, too, giving the car's stem and stern a lean, horizontal, ground-hugging ook. The old grille was carted off and replaced with this far less fussy twin-bar arrangement, a nice complement to the Coddington wheels, a one-off model called the "Spire." The only remaining superficial chrome is the whiplash side trim, which on a typical Chevy two-tone convertible of the area would have served to carry the rear color into the front fenders (note the Junkyard Dog, in which Boyd used this effect on a '56 coupe). This monochrome job was done in DuPont Hot Hues Boyd Red, a perfect foil for Gabe Lopez's Carmel leather interior. Chevy rag toppers of a half century ago would likely have opted for a small-block V-8. For his remake, Boyd went with one of his favorite crate engines, the Corvette LS7-a decision that just might make the wind whip a little faster through anyone's hair when they put the top down on this smoothly updated classic.
BODY: 1956 Chevrolet convertible
CHASSIS: Art Morrison Tri-5
ENGINE: LS7 Corvette
TRANSMISSION: GM 4L65 automatic
WHEELS: Boyd Coddington "Spire" one-off, I 7″ front, 18″ rear; Goodyear tires
REAR END: (differential & axle): Ford 9″ with Kugel independent
FRONT SUSPENSION: Kugel Independent
BRAKES:Wilwood 4-wheel disc brakes with 6-piston calipers