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During his all-too-brief life he became as synonymous with custom-car building asMickeyMouse is to Disneyland. In fact, Boyd Coddington, best known as amodern-day blacksmith who could hammer, weld and sculpt lumps of coldmetal into hot works of rolling art, spent a part of his younger life withMinnie, Goofy, Pluto and Donald Duck.