{"id":9750,"date":"2015-11-16T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T22:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/?p=9750"},"modified":"2016-02-04T22:42:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T22:42:09","slug":"coddingtons-french-connectionthe-octane-lounge-nov-16-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/coddingtons-french-connectionthe-octane-lounge-nov-16-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Coddington&#8217;s French Connection<\/br>The Octane Lounge Nov 16, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Octane_Lounge_CODDINGTON.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9751\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Octane_Lounge_CODDINGTON-117x300.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled-12.indd\" width=\"117\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Octane_Lounge_CODDINGTON-117x300.jpg 117w, https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Octane_Lounge_CODDINGTON.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 117px) 100vw, 117px\" \/><\/a>Overview<\/h2>\n<div>\nDon&#8217;t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media&#8217;s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they&#8217;re produced. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">here<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoctanelounge.com\">www.theoctanelounge.com<\/a> to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.<\/p>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>Before to his death in 2008, Boyd Coddington was one of, if not the most influential custom-car builders of his time, with a unique and distinctive style that changed the business.  Coddington loved to design cars that were long, low and swoopy and his bold creations remain some of the most sought-after customs of the modern era. One of his most striking early efforts was a 1948 Cadillac commissioned by rock band ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons. The outrageous &#8220;Cadzilla&#8221; firmly established Coddington as a top-flight builder who stretched the boundaries of conventional design. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">Please contact us to order this feature.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before to his death in 2008, Boyd Coddington was one of, if not the most influential custom-car builders of his time, with a unique and distinctive style that changed the business.  Coddington loved to design cars that were long, low and swoopy and his bold creations remain some of the most sought-after customs of the modern era. One of his most striking early efforts was a 1948 Cadillac commissioned by rock band ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons. The outrageous &#8220;Cadzilla&#8221; firmly established Coddington as a top-flight builder who stretched the boundaries of conventional design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-store-items","category-the-octane-lounge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9752,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9750\/revisions\/9752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}