Doomed? They have not disclosed what he died of yet. Was it some sort of virus from the vault of the Fury?
Anyway, Boyd was very sick along with his workers, those who spent a lot of time around the Plymouth after it was raised from the tomb.
Here is one link - there are more.
http://jalopnik.com/361391/boyd-coddington-hot-rod-king-dead-at-age-63
It is still Sad and I offer my condolences to his family - even if you don't like hot rods and customs, he did do some nice work, (the way he treated help on TV left a little to be desired) but he still was a real "car guy" and an artist.
It was his liver.
According to a posting on the Early V8 Ford Forum, Boyd C died from liver failure. The posting went on to say that Boyd had undergone colon surgery in December, 2007, which he never fully recovered from.
There was a pretty detailed obit/tribute notice in our local paper this AM about Boyd and his life. He was a pretty interesting fellow, not everyone liked him, but you have to admire a person that started out in a small town in Idaho and achieved the success and fame he did..... he will be missed
....Bill
My friend and I were in Los Angles in 1994 with a State Disaster Crisis Team after the Northridge Earthquake. On one of our days off we wandered into Boyds shop sorta by accident, (we accidently went into many bussiness, Fatman Fabrications, Total Cost Involved (TCI) Bell engineering to name a few). Boyd was very nice to us and gave us a tour through his shop, he was working on the wildest 1953 Studebaker wagon I had ever seen. A few years later I had purchased a set? (2) wheels for my 39 hotrod Pickup they were smalls 14"x6" for the front of the pickup but the guy had already sold the rear wheels. About this time Boyd was having some problems with the Government, he was accused of comingling funds between his body shop and his wheel business. Anyhow I called Boyd and told him what my problem was that I could not purchase the wheels that I wanted to match my smalls. He told me that if he could get into his wheel shop he would make the two rear 15"x8" for me A few days later I called him back and he told me he could make them for me? (yeah i know $800.00 is a lot of money for 2 wheels ) but if its what you want whats a few greens? I watched his shows on T.V. and wondered how he could be so offensive,? because of my own personal dealings with him it made me wonder if mabey it was exactly what it was a show. When I joined the POC many years ago I owned a 39? P8 DeLuxe that I did a ground up restoration to I sold it after I started a 39 Plymouth PU hotrod project, it has a 57 Desoto Firedome 341 Hemi motor, 727 tranny, Lincoln rear, Fatman Mustang II power rack, 3 1/2 chop top, AC, hidden stereo , It has been finished obout 10 years and has recieved so many 1st-2nd-3rd places that I quit counting long ago. The Parts trucks that I have, has been doner to quite a few restoraton projects of other 39 pickups, one of which the motor is in national Plymouth champion. Due to the fact that those parts were used for restorations I do not feel that any apology is necessary about hotrodding mine. My wife is a proud owner of a bone stock 1963 Dodge Dart convert. that she bought and we restored, It has also taken many prestgious awards. Sorry for the rambling. Wayne of California