Official Car Care Line Of American Hot Rod

American Hot Rods Names Boyd Coddington Detail Garage It’s Official Car Care Line

Duane Mayer owner of American Hot Rods and co-star of the hit TV show American Hot Rod endorses Boyd Coddington Detail Garage Products, and names Boyds the Official Car Care Line of American Hot Rods. Boyd Coddington Detail Garage Products will be used exclusively on all American Hot Rods project cars and display vehicles.

Anaheim, Calif. – Boyd Coddington Detail Garage Premium Car Care Products has announced that its line of car care products has been endorsed by Duane Mayer owner of American Hot Rods and co-star of the hit TV show American Hot Rod. This strategic partnership now makes BOYD CODDINGTON DETAIL GARAGE the official surface care company for American Hot Rods. Boyd Coddington Detail Garage Products will be used to detail all American Hot Rods vehicles, including its mobile displays seen at car shows around the country, American Hot Rods project cars and Duane’s personal cars. American Hot Rods transporter will also carry Boyd Coddington Detail Garage Products. “I’m pleased and excited to be working with BOYD CODDINGTON DETAIL GARAGE as the official American Hot Rods car care line,” said Duane, CEO and president of American Hot Rods in Anaheim, CA. “Every vehicle we own – from our transporter to our project hot rods and my personal daily driver – has to be impeccable. It’s part of our mission to be the absolute top in the business. The BOYD CODDINGTON DETAIL GARAGE products have been around for years and is all i’ve ever used and the quality has always been the finest. With the improved chemistry, packaging and the fact that they’re made here in the USA, they represent all the same core values that American Hot Rods stands for. With that in mind I’m proud to be working with Boyd Jr., to have my name on every bottle and helping Boyd Jr. continue the legacy and the legendary Coddington dedication to innovation.

“We are very proud of our new line of car care products and we are thrilled to be working with Duane and the American Hot Rods team,” said Boyd Coddington Jr. “Duane and American Hot Rods are like family so it only made sense to get Duane’s stamp of approval and endorsement.

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Boyd Coddington Jr. Launches New Detail Garage Website

Boyd Coddington Detail Garage^®Announces Car Care Dedicated Website

Boyd Coddington Garage®, which has been a leader in the aftermarket hot rod and custom wheel industry for more than 5 decades, announced today that it has launched www.boydsdetailgarage.com, a new website dedicated to showcasing the company’s commitment to providing the same award winning formulated car care, detailing products and accessories that were developed and are used to clean, detail and protect all the Boyd Coddington Built Hot Rods. This world-class automotive specialty line of car care products is now available for your car and will be the last car care products that you will ever need. The website features an E-Catalog and “Learning Center” with a variety of fresh, relevant topics to help enthusiasts and professional detailers to stay informed. This announcement comes as Boyd Coddington Jr. continues to grow the Detail Garage offering an ever-growing product line of professional car care products that provide products designed with the performance, quality and the results that detailers crave.

Just recently Boyd’s Detail Garage just announced a dramatic breakthrough in wheel finishing technology-HCX2! This all-new patented process changes the surface of a wheel to an extremely hard, finish that is invisible to the human eye and leaves no degradation in polish quality. It means that polished wheels need no more polishing! It is an easy to apply, do it yourself, fifteen minute single-step chemical process that, when cured, changes the molecular structure of the surface of the wheel to a glass-hard finish that is impervious to oxidation, corrosion, brake dust, road salt, acid-based wheel cleaners and ordinary nicks and scratches. It will even withstand a grueling Mil-Spec 1000 Hour Salt Spray without damage! “This is a genuine technological breakthrough”, says Boyd Coddington Detail Garage Founder Boyd Coddington Jr. “The HCX2 finish will preserve the just-polished or the look of a new wheel for years. It will be a huge benefit for those consumers who want to protect their investment, or want to spent less time and effort maintaining their custom wheels.

Also added to the Boyd Coddington Detail Garage line is a Limited Edition Extreme Carnauba Paste Wax with unmatched features, hand blended pure raw ingredients and a perfect combination of natural oils and 100% pure Brazilian White Carnauba. And finally, Boyd’s Extreme Black™ Tire & Rubber Dressing that provides a non-greasy, non-slinging rich semi-gloss finish with added UV inhibitors and polymers to protect your tires, interior plastics, trim, and door seals.

About Boyd Coddington Detail Garage

Founded by Boyd Coddington Jr., Boyd Coddington Detail Garage is a manufacturer of specialty car care, detailing products and accessories, for professionals and enthusiasts. The company is located in Kansas City, Missouri, and sells its products throughout the United States and in many foreign countries.

For more information on Boyd Coddington Detail Garage® complete line of car care, detailing products and accessories, please visit the company website at www.boydsdetailgarage.com or calling855-952-0700.

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1926 Model T

1926 Model T “Fantastic T”

Dad was a machinist by trade and one of his first jobs as a machinist was working the graveyard shift at Disneyland. In fact, he carried a lot of his work ethics and shop habits into the hot rod business that were instilled in him while employed there.

Boyd in his 1915 Center Door finished just prior to starting the 1927 Model T project

Dad built hundreds of cars over the years, but the first hot rod he built recognized by the magazines was a 1915 Center Door that Street Rodder Magazine published in the August, 1974 issue. Because my dad’s satisfaction always came from building the cars rather than owning them, the next project, a 1926 Model T was soon underway with the goal of building a better hot rod.

The sedan’s chassis was completely hand-fabricated by my dad from 1-1 /2 x 3 inch tubing in our one car garage. Electric fans are mounted to the left frame rail with the air conditioning condenser. The interior features a hand carved dash by Ken Hartley and is outfitted with S-W Stage Ill gauges that matches the stock T steering wheel. Originally the upholstery was a tan Naugahyde. The wheels are Zenith Wire, and about 5 years before the first set of Boyds Wheels were built. The Corvette rear (3.47 gears) were installed utilizing coil-over shocks instead of the stock leaf spring. The Steering is Mustang.

The engine is a 289 Shelby Ford small block mounted to a C-4 Cruis-0-Matic and both are stock. The engine uses a Mallory igniter and a Holley 650 carb with lots of detailing and polish. All fluid lines and hoses, as well as all wiring throughout are aircraft type. The front suspension consists of a custom tubular axle on a Teflon leaf spring. Spindles are early Chevy, while the disc brakes are Corvette.

Street Rodder featured the Model T on the March 1975 cover utilizing the most recognizable amusement park as the background. This was the very first time a street rod had been photographed at Disneyland since it’s opening in 1955.

Dennis Varni’s 1929 AMBR Hot Rod

1992 Americas Most Beautiful Roadster

A Hot Rod Of Ingenuity Design And Detail

Dennis Varni from Los Gatos, California, first built this 1929 roadster in 1971. In 1990, when Dennis wanted to refresh the 29 Hot Rod, he looked to Boyd Coddington Garage to rebuild it with the look of the Lil’ John Buttera smoothed ’29 roadsters that had set the trend at the time. This required major modifications to the original ’29 body and an entirely new custom fabricated frame and chassis. The challenges of the body were tackled by Ron Covell, who shortened the quarter-panels 3 inches, moved the wheel wells forward, shortened the deck panel 3 inches to enlarge the interior, built 2-inch-longer doors from scratch, and formed a rolled rear pan and a louvered belly pan. Greg Turetto constructed and fabricated new frame rails to fit the body’s new form. The Halibrand Champ quick-change rides on torsion bars and the license plate flips up to hide away into the roll pan when the key is turned off.

An Art Chrisman assembled, Buttera-designed aluminum, 406-inch Indy Hawk small-block propels the newly shaped body and chassis. This hot rod motor is a beautiful combination of Boyd Coddington machined and polished custom air cleaner, valve covers, and oil pan to match the Dart heads, a 3/4-inch stroked crank, Crower rods, Ross pistons, an lsky cam, Jesel rockers, B&M blower, (now Holley) with a Carter AFB carb. Backing up the power plant and handling the torque is a Doug Nash five-speed transmission.

Greg Morel and Keith Russell applied Boyd Red lacquer paint, and the rest of the Boyd Coddington crew fitted the pieces together, laced the wires, and finished the details before Ron Mangus stitched the new interior with Connolly Leather and wool carpet. The Boyd Coddington billet steering wheel is wrapped in Connolly Leather and topped off with the Varni logo etched into the horn button. The silk-screened matching face VDO and Smiths gauges also proudly display the Varni logo. The trunk is trimmed in Connolly Leather and wool carpet with a Sony CD changer.

In 1992 Dennis’s Roadster won the prestigious Americas Most Beautiful Roadster Award. Winner or not, Dennis is a true hot rod enthusiast and for him, nothing is too good to butcher. You’ll find Dennis out driving his 29 in the sun, rain or blistering heat.

Vern Luce Coupe

Vern Luce was the owner of a lollipop factory and long time hot rodder. Vern’s Newport Beach garage was full of hot rods including a Model T and a hi-boy ’32 Ford roadster when he crossed paths with Boyd Coddington, John Buttera and a young hot rod illustrator, Thom Taylor and commissioned the Vern Luce Coupe.

To identify the Vern Luce Coupe as a 1933 Ford is to give Henry undue credit, because this rod is entirely scratch-built. Any parts remaining of factory origin passed through a number of capable hot rodders for modification.

Boyd began with an original body and frame, but the original parts ended with that beginning. The rear rails were kicked upward two inches and the section forward of the cowl was completely fabricated extending the Model 40’s wheelbase to 115 inches. New cross members from front to back support the tubular suspension fabricated by Boyd and John Buttera. At the front, a combination of 1974 Fiat rack-and-pinion, Strange Engineering spindles, Corvair balljoints, and Kelsey-Hayes brakes mount 14×7-inch Center Line wheels and Firestone radial tires. A Halibrand quick-change center section separates the K-H inboard rear brakes, Jaguar half shafts, Coddington-constructed tubular suspension arms, knock-off hubs, and 15×9 Centerlines. Koni coil-over-shocks suspend both ends of the flawless coupe. For the proposed Vern Luce Coupe body mods, Boyd turned to Steve Davis and Dan Fink. Following the Thom Taylor sketches, Steve and Dan filled and chopped the roof with slight rake-three-inches at the front and a quarter-inch less at the rear-extensively modifying the cowl and windshield posts in the process. Davis and Fink also constructed the rolled rear pan, the firewall and the entire shapely sheet metal forward, including the unbelievably perfect, three-piece hood.

When the body was totally complete and primed, the coupe was as smooth as a new Ferrari. Boyd brought in Terry Hegman to perform the paint. Several hand-rubbed coats of ”Juniors Ferrari Red” and the body gleamed as much as the soon-to-be-added chrome plating.

Boyd-built mounts and linkages connect the ’71 Ford 289 and C-4 trans to the remainder of the running gear. The latter is a product of Nick Metranga’s complete B&M 2500 rpm-stall-speed convertor, and Boyd’s home built billet shifter.

Art Chrisman applied BRC-modified TRW pistons, Mallory ignition, Crane components, those wooly Weslake heads, and four 48 IDA Weber carbs to the mini-Dearborn, then capped it with hand crafted valve covers from John Buttera, and headers by Ken Moore. Jack Chisenhall was consulted when it came time to keep it cool, and the Vintage Air system was installed in the Boyd Coddington Garage/Vic Kitchens-stitched interior. A pair of Recaro seats, a Nardi steering wheel, Concord stereo, and three power-operated pieces of tinted glass top out the interior. VDO linear instruments reside in a Coddington hand-carved 2024 aluminum panel which matches the other of the very first billet parts ever milled by Boyd including the accelerator, billet brake pedals, billet door handles, billet mirrors, billet steering column and billet decklid. The Buick front, and Volkswagen rear lights received multiple modifications to match the smooth lines of the coupe.

It took about 2 years time to build-not counting the two years previous, when Thom Taylor, Boyd Coddington, and Vern Luce were working out design problems.

The Vern Luce Coupe set the new standard for which all hot rods were to be built, even to this day. It was the hot rod that launched my dad’s hot rod career and where the “Boyd Look” origins come.

I get asked a lot, “how did your dad do it”? The answer was one of the fundamental lessons taught in the Coddington house. Standards. The standards that helped build the Vern Luce Coupe laid down the path to my dad’s success.

When you set high standards for yourself you instantly have a higher belief of what you can accomplish. You now expect more from yourself, and you expect more from others. With a higher set of expectations you are willing to go farther and reach higher to get the results you’re looking for, which consequently raises your performance levels.

As a result you invite more opportunities and extraordinary people into your life simply because there is more assurance in everything you do. As a result of this confidence, you feel more poised about reaching your goals and about the opportunities that come into your life. Additionally, your confidence attracts extraordinary people into your life that helps to reach your goals quicker and more efficiently.

BOB BOND AT ALL SPEED EXPO

BOB BOND TO ATTEND BOYD CODDINGTON

ALL SPEED EXPO AND CUSTOM CAR SHOW.

PRESS RELEASE

Kansas City, MO – October 7, 2015 – The Boyd Coddington All Speed Expo announced today legendary automotive artist Bob Bond would be showcasing his work and giving pinstriping demonstrations at the All Speed Expo to be held on November 21-22, 2015 at the KCI Expo Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Bond’s creations have excited young and old for decades, while setting trends in the hot-rod and custom-car industries.

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See All Of Bob’s Work At www.bobbondart.com

Bob Bond has been commissioned by Boyd Coddington Jr. and many other notable celebrities to apply the finishing touch to their vehicles including Cher, Ringo Star, Liberace, Evil Knevil, Elton John, George Barris and Billy Gibbons. His work has appeared in the Kustom Kulture art exhibit at the Laguna Beach Art Museum, which toured across the United States.

“Bond remains one of the hot rod industries most talented and recognized pinstripers, we are excited to have him displaying at the Expo,” Boyd Coddington Jr. said.

ABOUT THE ALL SPEED EXPO – The Boyd Coddington All Speed Expo is the Midwest’s premier performance automotive and truck trade expo, where exhibitors showcase services and products directly to the automotive enthusiast. It also plays host to the King of KC car show, where the finest custom and restored cars & trucks in the region compete for top honors.

For more information about the Boyd Coddington All Speed Expo, visit www.allspeedexpo.com.

ABOUT BOYD CODDINGTON GARAGE – Boyd Coddington Garage® was founded by Coddington’s eldest son, Boyd Jr., and encompasses multiple businesses and full service licensing for the brand. In 2013 Boyd Coddington Garage started an automotive design studio in order to focus their efforts on the company’s new high-end line of automotive detailing products, Boyd Coddington Detail Garage® which was announced at last fall’s SEMA Show and a high end line of premier car care products. The Boyd Coddington brands are known as the design leader and the premier brands for unsurpassed quality. For more information visit Boyd Coddington Garage at boydcoddingtonsgarage.com.

Contact Info: Scott Pennington

All Speed Expo

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (816) 812-2040

1990 Americas Most Beautiful Roadster

Boyds First All Aluminum Hot Rod

& the 1990 Americas Most beautiful Roadster

Butch Martino from White Plains New York was the proud owner of several of the early and more notable hot rods to come out of Boyd Coddington Garage. This radical altered roadster and winner of the 1990 Americas Most Beautiful Roadster Award was by far Butch’s favorite and for good reason. In 1998 when my dad pitched the project to Butch, he had the far-reaching idea to build the entire hot rod out of aluminum. Butch loved the concept and commissioned the 1932 roadster dubbed “Passion”, and the first all aluminum hot rod to come out of Boyd Coddingtons Garage.

Just about every part of this 1932 roadster is hand-fabricated aluminum. The refined Thom Taylor design combined with the Coddington trademark look and the billet aluminum elements carry throughout the entire hot rod. The futuristic Thom Taylor design starts with the aggressive grille shell, flows through the hood and sides, the suicide style doors to the one-off aluminum body shaped by Craig Naff. Greg Morrell laid down the plum paint, which was followed up by the double pinstripe by Dennis Ricklefs. Bobby Griffey stitched the gray leather and plum fabric interior.

The Craig Naff sculpted body and hood looked so awesome in bare aluminum, we decided to take it on tour and display it in several shows including the Nationals in Louisville.

After “Passion” had been crowned Americas Most Beautiful Roadster, I spent a year on the road with Butch’s roadster touring the Super Chevy Shows. I can tell you from experience, this hot rod demanded attention and drew in the crowds. The late Pete Peterson and me would take it out cruising in the evening where spectators got an opportunity to see it on the road.

Other Awards include Best In Class, Best In Show and Best Rod

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Boyd Coddington Falcon AU XR Ute

ITSA BOYD!

A Boyd Coddington Special Edition 2000 Ford Falcon AU XR Ute.

It’s always nice to get a call from a new owner of a Boyd Built vehicle. It’s Important to be able to keep track of the garages throughout the world that hold the Coddington creations. I recently received one of those calls from Dave Morgan, a hot rodder from Perth, Australia. Dave contacted me interested in registering, and obtaining a Boyd Coddington Certificate Of Authenticity for the Ford AU Falcon Ute. I managed this project so I remember it well. Dave first saw the Boyd creation on the cover of Street Machine Magazine in 2001 and fell in love with it. In 2008 while attending the Summernats, (Australia’s biggest car show) Dave spotted it and it had a “For Sale” sign on it. A good a friend of Dave’s – Doug, purchased the Ute and shipped it back to Perth via truck were it lived in Dave’s garage for several months until he had a place to store it.

While at Dave’s place, he came up with the Ute’s new name that’s on the current license plate, “ITSA BOYD”. In that time Dave also updated the stereo/sound system and mounted a “Shaker/Hood Scoop” on the vehicle.

Doug knew Dave loved ITSA BOYD…so earlier this year Doug offered to sell it to him and he purchased it.

When we weren’t busy at the hot rod shop designing the next America’s Most Beautiful Roadster, we had many of these special projects come through the shop. Some of those projects gave us the opportunity to re-design, engineer and create for various OEMs and marketing partners. One of those projects was in 1998 when Ford commissioned us to restyle this 2000 Ford Falcon AU XR Ute.

Ford shipped the Ute to our shop in Anaheim where it would begin an intense transformation. Originally white, the Ute was a former test mule, which Ford thrashed to within an inch of its life.

For those of you that have never seen the Australian Ute, it’s sort of a modern day Ford Ranchero. That said, or plan was to use the same design, restyling and customizing methods on the Ute that we had used on the American Street Trucks we built over the years. So, we called in the talented Luis Tanahara to put our design ideas onto paper.

Mechanically the Ute is no demon on the street. However, the factory EFI 302ci V8 Windsor motor is capable enough. We consulted with the Aussie suspension experts at Pedders Suspension to provide the shocks and springs to give the Ute the aggressive stance. The rear wheels are 20×9.5 while the fronts are 18×8 all wrapped around four Falken tires. The staggered wheel and tire diameters give the Ute a nice hot rod look.

The Body mods are subtle. The door handles were removed and replaced with solenoids that are operated with a remote. Other body mods included a billet grille and a new front under tray. The Ute is wearing a special House of Kolor mix of Tangerine on top, Ivory Cream in the middle and split up by Passion Purple in the middle. Gabe Lopez stitched the orange, purple and cream color trio leather interior. After several thousand miles, Dave informs us that both the paint and interior paint work is still the original and in excellent condition.

Well, there you have it, ITSA BOYD was one of the more unique projects that came through our shop. Dave’s Ute will be appearing in Western Australia at all the major events including the Western Australian All Ford Day on November 1^st 2015. If you’re across the pond and you get a chance, be sure to check out ITSA BOYD. She’s a little ripper!

The Silver Bullet

Boyds 29 Model A… The Silver Bullet.

The late Boyd Coddington was a machinist at Disneyland in the early 1970s. A promising hot rod builder, he was searching for a style all his own and a personal statement. Boyd’s first hot rods were heavily influenced by his friend, “’Lil” John Buttera, who was the first hot rodder to use CNC’S to create and ‘sculpt’ custom engines and suspension parts from solid billet aluminum.

Coddington admired a ’27 Model T Ford sedan that Butera had built, and he responded with a similar ’26 T. Butera’s next project was an ultra-modern ’29 Ford Model A roadster, which in turn motivated Coddington to create a counter-car that would become known as the “Silver Bullet.” The car is a remarkable blend of traditional styling and contemporary innovation.” For the “Bullet,” Buttera shaped a frame that added to the contours of the classic Model A roadster body. Boyd filled all the body seams, leveled the rear fender wells, and built an independent rear end using a Corvette center section and J&J hub carriers.

Custom Boyd Coddington Wheels with center hubs, handmade hairpin wishbones, a beautifully crafted dropped front axle, a “Bulldog” style abbreviated front, and functional lever shocks comprised the front section. Boyd built the three-piece hood and louvered the side panels by hand, then placed it to a Model A grille shell. The headlights seemed to ‘float’ beside the grille. The taillights were incredibly slim Lucite strips. Clean and contemporary, it put other retro-style highboy roadsters look positively prehistoric.

In keeping with this car’s clean exterior, Jim Bailey created a burgundy leather interior; Steve Borowitz added a wood grain dash insert, which Buttera filled with then-contemporary digital gauges. A three-spoke Boyd Coddington steering wheel complemented the dash. The shift lever and the pedals were machined from a solid piece of billet.

Boyd Coddington’s Silver Bullet was featured on the cover of Street Rodder magazine in April 1978. Vern Luce, a wealthy would-be customer, saw the Silver Bullet and retained Boyd to build him a ’33 Ford coupe that would soon make Coddington a household name. With this commission, Coddington quit his machinist job at Disneyland and opened Boyd Coddington’s Garage.

When the completed Vern Luce coupe appeared in 1981, it exemplified everything a hand-built, custom-built, high-end hot rod could be. Coddington soon became a industry leader, assembled a team and commenced manufacturing billet wheels and accessories. Boyd won the “America’s Most Beautiful Roadster” seven times.

Chevrolet V8 engine, 300 bhp, 350 cu. in.
Four-barrel carburetor
Custom dropped front tubular axle with torsion bars
Corvette independent rear suspension with coil-over shocks
Front disc and rear drum brakes. Wheelbase: 102″

Boyd Coddington Built “Simply Red”

Ron Craft’s 1933 Roadster “Simply Red”

Ron Craft’s Boyd Coddington built “Simply Red” is a 1933 steel bodied roadster and the first direct descendent of the Boydster. Not only did Simply Red feature an all steel body, it was fitted with an aluminum hood and side panels all built by the metal masters Marcel De Lay and his two sons, Marc and Luc. Working only from full-size side view rendering and a wire-frame buck similar to that employed in the construction of the Boydster, hastily wheeled up a new steel body complete with moldings, a deck lid, windshield frame and a floor. Marcel’s also fabricated the full-length aluminum hood and side panels to conform to the laid-back grille shell.

To the untrained eye, the grille shell, which is actually mounted to the hood top and consequently lifts with the hood, looks like any other ’33 Ford shell. But a closer inspection reveals that in fact this is actually a hand-formed shell wherein the bottom is similar to that of a ’32 Ford rather than a Model 40 but peaked. The top is similar to a ’33 but has tighter radius in the back corners whereas the nose is pulled down and flattened. The shell was also laid back until, as Boyd said, “It looked right.”

In just a few weeks, the body was completed and the car was back in the Boyd Coddington shop where is was primed and Karl Johansson began the mock-up assembly. Under the hood is the ubiquitous Corvette LTl motor, 700R4 transmission, Corvette master cylinder with power booster and modified GM steering column.

Once the mock-up was complete, the whole car was torn apart for paint and chrome and while Chip’s original rendering had called for bright yellow paint, but Boyd made the choice to go for Boyd Red. And, as you can see, almost everything, with the exception of those parts directly behind the grille, which are black, and the polished stainless steel exhaust, were painted or plated.

For the interior Boyd and Chip chose to match the exterior color exactly by having the leather dyed to match. The excellent work is that of Gabriel Lopez who wrapped his red-dyed skins around a hand-formed bench seat that flows into sweeping door panels that disappear under the smooth wraparound dash. Boyds pedals, a Tri-Grip Boyds billet steering wheel and Classic Instruments in a Boyds billet dash, complete the cockpit.

Again, there was a deviation from the original artwork in the choice of wheels and instead of the three-spoke design, Boyd machined up a set of one-off set of exposed lug five spoke Boyd Coddington Wheels.

Ron’s roadster won the prestigious Millwinder Award at its first showing at the 1996 Houston Autorama where it also won awards for Best Rod and Best Display. The Simply Red Millwinder Award was the second Millwinder Award for Ron.

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