So who is Bo Huff anyway?

I think this car is pretty nice . I meet him at GNR, He was really nice..Drunk at that point..Didnt like me grabbing his ass much but Hey . Gene is amazing in his own right..And a great guy to boot! I meet him many times and talked to him about a great many thing's.Bo Is also great just Apples and oranges , I say.







This is my personal Huff car favorite though.

 

eeww you said Boyd- BO Huff does cool work. If you dont know enoug about him - read up on what he has done.Cool guy- Hopefully he will come east one day (other than Lead East)and Ill get a chance to sit and chat over a coffee or beer with him. (No one ever comes East)

Has anyone else notice that the 'famous' (infamous)builders are getting much older now? Anyone know of any up and comers ???Winfield , Barris and even Bo are all getting up there (as we all are).
And Im not referring to the guys who do TV show once and think they know it all or should stay in touch with their beginnings. who are the new 'go to' guys? Are there any?

 

oh , chad..................

 

No worky.
end up at some webhosting, domain registry site.

 

What's OSR? Is that like OCD?

Tucker

 

We usually stop at Bo's place on our trip to Bonneville. He is always a great host and they all stop work to show us around.

 

Why is there costant bashing of OSR here ?
The only thing that is said about the HAMB there is that there are to many rules here.
Sometimes people here act more like restorers than hot rodders.

 

met him at the GNRS in Pomona this year. Nice guy with a ton of people around him where ever he went. His kid was stripin next to me for about an hour where we had the panel jam 'n the media was all over him. Bo had some nice rides in the seude building as well as a shoe shine booth where ya could get your picture taken with a couple babes while gettin yer boots done. Quite a show

 

Not sure whatever happened to Michael Smith's company, Alpine Edge Films or the movie?!?

Their site worked back when this post started last year!?!

Did a search and found some info and photos at www.usa1streetrods.com

Hopefully it'll get some air-time in the near future......

 

Flip through one and look at the pieces of crap they use for thier photo shoots.

Yeah, it almost like Communist Russia around this place.

I want my car restored just like Zenor's and Rolf's and Loudpedals and 3Window Larrys and Evels and Bleeds and.....and.....and...........yeah, the HAMB is full of restorers.

 

Has anyone else notice that the 'famous' (infamous)builders are getting much older now? Anyone know of any up and comers ???Winfield , Barris and even Bo are all getting up there (as we all are).
And Im not referring to the guys who do TV show once and think they know it all or should stay in touch with their beginnings. who are the new 'go to' guys? Are there any?[/quote]

I don't know that I would call them up and comers as most have pretty established names but here are a few:

Cole Foster (Salinas Boys)
Oz Welch (Oz Kustoms)
John Aeillo (Aeillo Kustoms)
Marcos Garcia (Lucky 7 Kustoms)
Troy Ladd (Hollywood Hot Rods)

 

never heard of the guy.

 

Yes you have he's the guy that can't stop putting stuff on his car..


I really don't like Bo's stuff..One a famous car builder told me
"he really likes to Old man it" Meaning: he always gets to a point
on a car where it you colud say hey that looks right on ...and then
he adds more to it...

 

In the last OSR, I think, or the one previous, they had a car by Bo that I really liked--Merc, flamed. Last year he finished a friend's car who had passed away and did it really nice also.

I give him props, as the neighborhood kids all say.

Tucker

 

i met bo in the early 80's. he had a body shop in fayetteville arkansas. he was driving a early 50's chevy with a 6 cylinder and a flame job, pretty cool for then. he contracted me to paint a sign for his shop but he wouldn't pay for it, i guess he didn't like the sign, i don't know. anyway he moved away. the sign became a work table in my shop for a bunch of years then just last fall i burned it in a bonfire out back. the funny thing to me is that some of my car buddies asked me if i knew him when he lived here and i told them the story.
they were up in arms. you'd think i destroyed some historic, national monument. hell, i didn't even know he was famous. but if he is famous and maybe even rich, i could sure use the $250. so if you're reading this bo, please send the money.

remember "BO's Paint" looked like chrome slab lettering, so 80's...

 

Somebody asked for some shots of some of the cars Tony Farnetti built.
I hope these come out alright.
Tony's '35 Ford with Tony Bo & Bo's pen stripping son.
Next
Tony and his '35, '41 & '50
Next
Another '41 Ford and a '56 Ford by Tony.

 

Seems like a guy who would fit right in here on the HAMB... only he's too busy building CARS!

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Sam.

 

Who is Bo Huff?? I've known him since about '91 and live about 200 miles from him, but have been by his place a lot of times and have never been disappointed.

I don't like everything he does, but like a lot!!! One thing I can say is that he has more original ideas than anyone I've seen on the custom scene. You might like them or hate them, but they are his and there is no end to them. There are a lot of guys around the country that can do good work and copy other people's work, but not a lot that can come up with as many original ideas as I've seen at Bo's. He isn't afraid to o experiment.

As far as I can tell he never left the custom scene like so many others did in the late 60's and into the 80's. Doing "his style" cars has been there even when it wasn't popular. The type of customs and rods a lot of guys on this site like were his trademark way before this recent resurrection. I'm not saying Bo is the only one who never gave up on customs, but he was one of the few and even though he wasn't well known or talked about by the west coast mags he was there doing his thing during all of those years.

Here is a link to a car show he held in 2001 at his shop:

http://purplesagetradingpost.com/sumner/carshows/cs-ss-2001-1.html

If you are ever within 200-300 miles of his place (going across 70 or 80) you won't be disappointed in making the trip there.

c ya,

Sum

 

I have a story about this.. I was at SEMA this last time and met a friend of mine there. She was working for OSR and we talked for a while then she says hey let me introduce you to Bo Huff.. I'm like ok..whoever that is... I've heard his name several times but couldn't remember a single thing about him other than he had something to do with cars.. So I meet him.. standing there BSing my way through a conversation, when clearly I was supposed to be awe struck by the opportunity to meet him. Earlier that day I met Gene Winfield, but I knew who he was..

I think Bo Huff, will eventually be remembered by a larger percentage of the car people. It takes time to be recognized as a master at something, usually after you quit doing it. Just look at Van Gogh and Picasso....

 

If he builds cool cars than who really gives a fuck?

 

Were '70s vans around in the '50s? Well, I guess their interiors were.

 

I got to meet Bo twice pretty cool guy he does not build the type of kustom I like, but he is talented and thats very cool, famous or not.

John

 

I Met Bo At Lead East A Few Years Back A Real Nice Guy And Has Some Cool Stuff Likes To Party Alot There Are A Lot Of Great Car Bulders All Over The Country That Aren,t Has Well Know Has The Should Be But With The Internet And Things Like The Hamb We Are Hearing About And Seeing The Work That Is Being Done

 

Okay, 6 months to the day this post was started....Just wondering if Chad S original question was ever answered?!?

 

Here's a Pod Cast interview

http://octaneradio.podomatic.com/

Bo lives in Utah - Utah has Mormons - Mormons frown on facial hair - Bo has a beard down to his waist -


Rock ON Bo!!

 

He was signing posters in the Streamline/Gennie Shifter booth at the Good Guys show in Del Mar three weeks ago........

 

I met him at SEMA on Tuesday, and can honestly say he was the coolest cat I met all day... took the time to BS hotrods with my brother and I and is a really down to earth and easy to talk to guy... He's a legend in my book.

 

some of the guys you listed don't "build" a damn thing..but they have good taste...good collectors, not builders

 

I talked to Bo Huff a couple of times this week at the SEMA show, he was very down to earth and a super cool guy. It was a pleasure to meet him!

 

I know quite a few legendary car builders, they just don't recieve the press. Some of his stuff is a little gimmicky for me, but he does get coverage and is a builder to boot. More power to him.