Bo Huff

Gerald Douglas "Bo" Huff (March 12, 1943 – August 4, 2015) was an American custom car designer and an influential figure in the American Kustom Kulture and hot rod movement. He 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.

Early life

Gerald Huff was born on March 12, 1943, in Clarksville, Arkansas, to Junior Gervis and Corene Crossno Huff. Junior Gervis Huff would spend 23 years working in the Carbon County coal mines.

By age 18, Huff was listening to rockabilly music and had adopted what would become his lifelong signature fashion—ducktail hair, cuffed jeans, and engineer boots. Huff became recognized worldwide for his custom cars, which were featured in custom car magazines such as Car Kulture Deluxe, Hot Rod Mechanic, Ol' Skool Rodz, Rod and Custom, and Street Rodder, among others. In the final years of his life, he had become the subject of the film Bo Huff: A Documentary of His Life Cars, Music, and Girls, which was released the year after his death.

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. Huff's son, Junior Huff, has inherited the Bo Huff Customs business and has cultivated his own skills as an award-winning pin-striper.