Tribute To: BIG DADDY ED ROTH!!!!!

[Brock Samson]

 

 


 












"Priceless "Orbitron" Ed Roth-built car found outside Mexican sex shop [PIC]
jalopnik.com — The "Orbitron," a custom car built in 1964 by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, had been thought long lost. Turns out the space-age looking car's been spending its time in Mexico, being used as a trash receptacle outside a sex shop. The finder is now looking to restore the once magnificent car."










si i'm sitting here watching the movie,



                         http://youtube.com/watch?v=VqqLUAYYt_U&feature=related

 

and figgure he's a far better subject for a topic then these other hollywood trainwrecks like britteny and paris...
get your mind out of the gutter and back to crusin.. 



http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vd7ejDpGFHo

http://youtube.com/watch?v=h-_toO-CU4Y&feature=related

 


  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491698/







http://www.amazon.com/Customized-Inspired-Riders-American-Culture/dp/0810957272

[BigBlockSam]

very cool 

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Back in High School, my friends and I tried in vain to draw cars like Ed, but to no avail!    He was truly one of a kind! 


From the internet.....


He was described by author Tom Wolfe in his 1964 essay "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" as the "most colorful, the most intellectual and the most capricious" of the car customizers. "He's the Salvador Dali of the movement -- a surrealist in his designs, a showman by temperament, a prankster," Wolfe wrote.

Roth created Rat Fink and a host of wild characters to help finance his car design work.

In 1974, he converted to the Mormon church and abandoned his rebel lifestyle, however he continued to work on car designs. "My fanaticism with cars has just destroyed my personal life," he told The Associated Press in a 1997 interview. "It's an obsession, an addiction. Every day I pray to God, `Release me from my calling!"'

David Chodosh, a friend and business associate, said Roth was still working at the time of his death and was hoping to tour a new car in 2002. "The guy over the years has epitomized cool," Chodosh said. "Even now, in so many ways, he is still the Boss Fink."

[moparstuart]

Has any one else seen the full length movie about him and his life , great show the drive-in here showed it last summer and it was awesome !!!!!

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I've never seen this car before!