[1] 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.

[1][6] 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.

[6] By the 1970s, Huff had learned automobile body and fender work at a training institute in Denver, Colorado, and had become friends with Stan Robles, a mentee of the renowned George Barris who had customized the Batmobile and the cars for The Munsters sitcom in the 1960s.

[1][2] Huff soon found work in Salt Lake City, and then opened his own custom paint shop in Orange County, California, a few years later.

[6] Huff himself was the winner of the esteemed Grand National Roadster Show and achieved widespread recognition for his fabrication and custom paint skills.

[8] With his long silver beard, slick fashion, and candid communications style, Bo Huff became a familiar figure across the American West for his dedication to promoting Kustom Kulture lifestyle and the 1950s rockabilly spirit.

[6] Huff worked on hundreds of cars over the course of his long career—strictly focusing on those produced from the 1930s to 1950s—and he also had several decades-long projects that he continued to perfect until the end of his life, including a 1936 Ford and a 1939 Mercury.