After moving to California in the 1960s, Boyd Coddington began building hot rods as a side venture while working as a machinist at Disneyland before opening his own hot rod shop in the late 1970s and pioneering the use of billet wheels in the 1980s. Coddington and his shop served as the stars of the TV reality show American Hot Rod on the Discovery and Learning channels between 2004 and Coddington’s passing in early 2008. The “Alumatub” was…