1. Gerald Douglas "Bo" Huff was an American custom car designer and an influential figure in the American Kustom Kulture and hot rod movement.
17 Facts About Bo Huff
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Bo Huff was known as the "Rockabilly King" in the American custom car scene for his promotion of Kustom Kulture lifestyle, rat rods, and custom cars, and was identified as one of the top 20th and early 21st century American custom car designers.
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Gerald Bo Huff was born on March 12,1943, in Clarksville, Arkansas, to Junior Gervis and Corene Crossno Bo Huff.
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Junior Gervis Bo Huff would spend 23 years working in the Carbon County coal mines.
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The young Gerald Bo Huff first became interested in cars by reading fledgling hot rod magazines of the 1950s and by watching older boys and men send sparks flying as they sped by in their lowered "tail-dragger" cars on the streets of Dragerton and Salt Lake City.
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Bo Huff attended East Carbon High School, but often skipped class to go to Salt Lake City, which was an alluring hotspot with pretty girls and an active car scene.
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Bo Huff had begun working on one of his first cars, a 1950 Dodge, modifying it with heated springs and bumpers that he had swapped out from a 1949 Plymouth.
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Bo Huff soon found work in Salt Lake City, and then opened his own custom paint shop in Orange County, California, a few years later.
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Bo Huff spent some time in the 1970s touring the custom car scene around the United States, and then opened a custom car shop in Lincoln, Arkansas.
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Bo Huff later returned to Carbon County, Utah, and worked a brief stint in the same coalmines where his father had worked.
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Unhappy with this type of employment, Bo Huff soon opened what became his permanent custom car shop in Sunnyside, Utah.
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Bo Huff became the annual host of the following shows, among others: The Bo Huff Rockabilly Reunion in East Carbon, Utah, the Rockabilly Route 66 Car Show, and the Rockabilly Extravaganza in Riverside, California.
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Bo Huff himself was the winner of the esteemed Grand National Roadster Show and achieved widespread recognition for his fabrication and custom paint skills.
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Bo Huff has worked with clients and sold cars all over the world, shipping them as far as Japan.
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Bo Huff died in East Carbon, Utah, on August 4,2015, after a five-year battle with multiple myeloma cancer, just a month before his Dead Sleds car club 10-year anniversary car show.
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Bo Huff appears in the 2020 documentary Bombshells and Dollies.
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Bo Huff was inducted into the National Rod and Custom Car Hall of Fame, the Kustom Kemps Hall of Fame, and the Customs of America Hall of Fame for his life's work.