Nathan Warkentin’s 2008 GMC 2500HD – Boyd Coddington Edition

Nathan Warkentin’s 2008 GMC 2500HD – Boyd Coddington Edition

March 1, 2010 in Featured 3 Comments

When Nathan saw the Boyd Coddington edition GMC’s sitting outside the dealership he stopped to look, fell in love and took one home. His GMC 2500HD is #10 out of 50 and has a license plate to match. What’s your real name?  (What’s your online screen name?)
Nathan Warkentin (NW-99SS)

Where do you live?
Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada

What do you do for a living?
Halliburton Wireline as a perforating service field supervisor

What GM(s) do you drive?
2008 GMC 2500HD, 2007 Cobalt SS/SC  and a 1999 Camaro SS.  I have owned GMs for the last 15 years.

How long have you had your GM(s)?
I purchased the GMC and the Cobalt new, and I bought the Camaro as the second owner in August of 2000.

What got you into GM(s)?
My family has always been loyal to GMs, my father and my uncle owned various GMs including some very nice Camaros, Impalas, and Chevelles.

What made you buy your Boyd Coddington Edition truck?
I saw them at the dealership where they had one outside.  I was asked if I wanted to test drive and of course I couldn’t say no.  Well after driving one, a stock 2500 SLT Sierra just wasn’t going to cut it anymore!  I also thought  since Boyd Coddington was no longer with us, it would be nice to have something like this truck that had his name and limited edition numbered badges on it.

Have a favorite story to tell about your truck?
Just one funny story about a 2008 Mitsubishi Eclipse convertible that tried to race the truck one lonely evening … no one ended up winning but my truck didn’t lose either.  He wasn’t the only one who was surprised as I did not even have a programmer in my truck yet!

What’s next for your truck?  Why?
I plan on adding a Banks cold air to compliment the Banks 6 Gun and PDA already installed.  A few more cosmetic items like tinted windows and taillights are also coming soon.

Who has done most of the modifications on your truck?
Other than the Boyd Coddington package already installed by the dealer, I perform all the installs on my vehicles and my truck in no exception.

What was your favorite modification?  Why?
As much as I love the power that the programmer adds, I have to say the HID conversion I added to the truck is my favorite at this point.  The difference the lights make at night is so nice; I don’t even use my high beams anymore!

Is there a particular shop you’d like to recommend?
Unfortunately, I can’t recommend any as I haven’t used a shop in a long time.

Do you spend time on any GM sites?  Which ones?
I spend most of my time on ls1tech.com and performancetrucks.net as well as a local forum in Canada – thefbody.com.

Boyd Coddington passed away in 2008, but if you had the opportunity to talk to him . . . What would you say?
I would commend him on the quality of the hotrods that he made and his great taste in keeping things simple, clean, and beautiful!

Modification list?
Boyd Coddington package:

  • 18” Boyd Coddington Wheels with 33” Interco Tires
  • 4” Aries Push Bar with Boyd Coddington laser cut lower plate
  • One piece Billet grille
  • Magnaflow dual outlet exhaust
  • Katskin interior seats with red suede inserts and Boyd Coddington embroidered logo
  • Boyd Coddington edition stainless steel gauges
  • 4” Rancho lift and shocks
  • All body moldings and factory emblems removed
  • Boyd Coddington edition badging and numbered dash plaque

Dealer installed accessories:

  • GMC mudflaps with stainless steel offsets to clear the 33” tires
  • GM box rails
  • Linux spray in bedliner
  • GMC Stainless door sill plates and kick plates

I installed:

  • 12K HID Low beam kit
  • Banks 6 Gun with Power PDA and EGT
  • BOYD 10 custom license plate (Truck is number 10 of 50 in the series of which only 15 were diesels and the other 35 were lowered 1500 Sierras)

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  • Brentmcmunn

    actually… only 10 were deisels! I have #1 !!

  • Brentmcmunn

    50 packages available for the Canadian Market…. 20 x 2 wheel drive regular cab short boxes – lowered.. 20 x crew cab 4×4's – lowered & 10 x deisel 4×4's lifted. three colors available; charcole/silver, red & black – not sure if they ever did actually get all 50 built. I bought #1 and had it home 10 days prior to completeion; had to arrange a meeting with advance trucks to complete the project.. the rest were to follow. Blacks were hot.. charcole/silver sold, but nobody wanted the red ones! seems red is dead in the vehicle market- they ended up on giving the red ones away at regular truck prices- basically free upgrades. I think of all the trucks, I paid the most for my 4×4 – 1500.. being #1 – I got no deals or discounts, and then I stuffed another $8000.00 worth of goodies into it.. total cost for mine in the end was $84,000.00 – rather costly for a 5.3 gas powered 4×4 !! sure hope it retains some value- only two years old, and already have 130,000km – but its been alot of fun- measured in 'smiles per hour' !! – downfall for mine seems to be the over sized wheels- too big! all 4 ball joints wore right out and extremely hard on tires!!

  • http://girlintheblackcar.com/ Kim Schuenman

    Sounds like you really enjoy your truck!

    I love – measured in 'smiles per hour'

    Thanks for the feedback!

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