I am very sad to write that South Bay E9 guru, Boyd Fechner, passed away on October 18th. He was 84. I met Boyd 15 years ago, by way of Carl Nelson, when I first started my own coupe journey. From the start, he was an amazing mentor, a tireless raconteur, and a character of epic proportions. If you met Boyd you never forgot him. Working out of the one car garage of his San Jose home , he fashioned complex rust repair patches from flat stock and restored coupes to pin-straighness. While his paintwork started to suffer slightly over the past three years, his metal working skills never diminished (he called himself The Master Metal Masher). We would often confer for hours on the best approaches to the latest coupe restoration issue. I will miss him.