Artistic Legacy
Many of the next generation of customizers started their career with Coddington. Larry Erickson, later the Chief Designer of the Mustang and Thunderbird for Ford Motor Co., worked with Coddington early on, and specifically credits the CadZZilla collaboration for jump-starting his career . Designer Chip Foose (Overhaulin'), and fabricator Jesse James (Motorcycle Mania ) both started their careers in his shop. Coddington hosted the Discovery Channel show American Hot Rod, where he competed fiercely as well with his former protégé.
Coddington's creations have won the Grand National Roadster Show's "America's Most Beautiful Roadster (AMBR)" award seven times, (the only back-to-back winner) of America's Most Beautiful Roadster, the Daimler-Chrysler Design Excellence award twice, and entry into both the Grand National Roadster Show Hall of Fame, SEMA Hall of Fame, Route 66 Hall of Fame, the National Rod & Custom Museum Hall of Fame In 1997, Coddington, was inducted into the Hot Rod Hall of Fame .
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