Our good customer Pete sent us these pics of his Camaro with some blacked out JYDs. These 18″ Junk Yard Dogs were treated with an all satin black paint with a red stripe added by Pete. Good job and great looking ride.
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Two-Tone HR-22’s
Titanium centers and satin black lip. This HR-22 is going on a Pro Touring 1969 Camaro. Lightweight and strong. The HR-22 is just one of many Pro Touring designs that Hot Rods by Boyd builds to your specs. These HR-22’s got the two tone paint treatment with Titanium centers and Black lips.
Silver Junk Yard Dogs
Whichever wheel you decide to go with adding some of our ceramic paints to them can really set them off. This Junk Yard Dog has nice contrast of the ceramic silver against the polish rim and cap. Most our custom polished cast wheels like the Junk Yard Dog and Smoothie III get built and shipping in 48 hours. Painted sets usually take about a week. For more info call 866-612-2693 or email
HR-56 on a Mercedes 500 SL
One of our customers sent us these pics of his Mercedes 500 SL with a set of 18″ HR-56’s out of our Pro-Touring Series. With all the hot rod and muscle car wheels we build it’s always cool to see our customers dress up their daily drivers with some billet wheels. Especially when it’s a nice import like this Mercedes. These HR-56’s were also treated with ceramic clearcoat to lock in that polished look and keep the maintenance down. Bet you didn’t even know these were coated. That’s why we use ceramic clearcoat over any other clearcoating process.
18″ HR-56 on 500 Sl
24″ Junk Yard Dogs
When my dad machined the first set of Junk Yard Dogs to go on the Chevy that named these wheels building anything bigger than an 18 or 20″ set of these for a car wouldn’t have been on his radar. These Coddington Collection 24×12 full billet JYD’s are going on a full custom.
The Original Hot Rods by Boyd shirts are available
Available in Black and White. $20/shirt includes shipping to the 48 states. Get yourself the original only here at Hot Rods by Boyd.
Garage Sale Time – 17×8 5×4.75 Widows
We have up for sale a set of pre-owned but never mounted Boyd Coddington Widows. These wheels were built in 2005 and are in the original boxes. A customer of ours decided to go a different direction with her car and we’re offering these at a smoking deal. 17×8 5×4.75 with 4.5″ of backspace which means it will pretty much fit anything rear wheel drive GM from 55 -74 and S-10 pickups. I just took this one wheel out of the box for the first time to take these pics. These wheels are really nice. For more info call 866-612-2693 or email.
Another One-Off set leaves the Custom Shop
Had to snap a quick pic of these knock-off wheels we built before we shipped them off. Back when my dad started building wheels all the wheels were knock-off style. These 20″ directional one-off’s turned out awesome. If you have a wheel design in mind and want us to help you make it a reality drop us an email.
Porsche 550 Spyder 1955 #015 restored by Boyd Coddington
While the names Boyd Coddington and Hot Rods are pretty synonymous there were some pretty cool restorations and non-hot rod builds that Hot Rods by Boyd handled back in the day. This one in particular was a rare beauty. This Porsche 1955 550 Spyder was car #015. It was brought to my dad in 1986 to get ready for the 14th Annual Monterey Historic Vehicle Races the following year. The car was completely stripped down to bare aluminum. This car came with a rare louvered belly pan that after years of driving was pretty hammered. Metal master Marcel DeLay took on the task of recreating the belly pan to match exactly. The car took about a year to restore. When it came time to paint the customer said he just wanted a standard Porsche silver. When my dad started doing his homework he called the customer to come over and help pick. I guess there were something like 400-500 shades of silver that were produced during those years. I think the shade they picked with those red accents coming off the tail lights nailed it.
Besides hot rod wheels we also produce some of the nicest and lightest wheels for Porsche 550 Spyder and 356 Speedsters around. You can check them out here
Early Boyd Build 1929 2 Door Sedan
I came across some old pictures of the very first car to be built at the Orange Ave location. This 1929 2 door sedan was started sometime after my family moved to Orange Ave and the back garage was built. This car predates the Vern Luce coupe which was built in the same location. You can tell by the pictures that the clean ‘Boyd Look’ was starting to take shape early on. The “look” that would really take shape with the Vern Luce coupe and continue on from there. The day the customer came to the shop to take delivery of it he asked my dad if he could do a little burnout as he left. Thinking the customer was joking since he surely wouldn’t want to hammer down on the blown 350 in the first few seconds that he owned and drove the car away my dad joked back ,”Sure. Roast the tires off the thing”. Being the wild character that the customer was he rolled out onto Orange Ave and hammered it. Smoked the tires and went down Orange Ave sideways in two directions. When the customer got home the phone was ringing and it was my dad calling ” What the hell were you thinking?” The customer just laughed and said “You told me to roast the tires off the thing” . Here are some pics from that first build here at Orange Ave.
