Bo Huff will be Community Daze Grand Marshal

By Sun Advocate

Bo Huff is the Grand Marshal of East Carbon Community Daze for 2015. Bo is a long time resident of Dragerton.
Bo and his family moved here in the early ‘50s for his Dad to work in the coal mines. They moved from Clarksville, Arkansas in a 1935 Ford ton and a half truck.
Due to the housing shortage they moved from Dragerton, where they stayed with friends, to Price then to Sunnyside, and finally found a home in Dragerton. Bo’s Dad worked for Kaiser Steel for 23 years.
Bo has always had a love for cars. He remembered seeing the older guys driving their lowered, fixed up cars and this set his lifelong passion.
When he was 18 he went to body and fender school in Denver, CO with his friend Stan Robles, also from Dragerton. There he learned the basics of body work and painting cars.
His first custom car shop was in Cypress, CA. This was in the late 60’s. After a while he decided to tour the US in a 1948 Ford 2 ton truck with an Air Stream trailer on the back. This was one of the first motorhomes.
After touring for a while he settled back into Arkansas. He opened a custom shop in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Bo always loved Dragerton and moved back, worked at Kaiser Steel for a while and then opened up his shop in Sunnyside where he has been since 1981.
Bo has built many, many custom cars and hot rods. He has established a name for himself and is recognized worldwide in the custom car world. Bo’s cars have been in numerous magazines like Street Rodder, Ol Skool Rodz, Hot Rod Mechanic, Rod and Custom, Car Kulture Deluxe and more. Bo has been honored by receiving the National Rod and Custom Car Hall of Fame, Kustom Kemps Hall of Fame, Customs of America Hall of Fame awards.
Bo has been blessed with six beautiful children who are carrying on his passion.
Bo also has a custom car museum in Dragerton in the old Menotti store where he has his work on display.
In 1981, Bo and Danny Summers got a bunch of cars together and met up to Sunnyside Park and about three years later the two cities got together and started Community Daze.