The 1964 product of the Roth mind and fiberglass shop recently turned up south of the border, where it had been carnival attraction and trash bin in front of an adult book store. Here are some clips I got of the net with the respected links.įinding a battered Orbitron, one of Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth's most iconic custom cars, in Mexico is like finding JD Salinger slumped over a bottle of Mescal in a Tijuana speakeasy. Last edit at 08:06PM by memikeyounot.I know this is old news but I love this car and had to post this. I think I need a t-shirt.Įdited 1 time(s). I also read that whoever is selling the products with his name was going to be at the Cache Valley Cruise-In in Logan, Utah in June, and his wife was going to be there. It's kind of a weird movie, but if you're a fan. I actually bought a DVD copy of it back when I was buying DVD's and I think I donated it to the County Library when I was living in Las Vegas. The model cost me $1.99, IIRC.Īnd there's a movie, produced in 2006 about his story. And unless I'm mistaken, one of the plastic kit companies made a model of the Rat Fink figure, and when I turned in school books at the end of 8th grade, my mom let me spend it on one of these models. I built more than one plastic model of his cars, especially the Beatnik Bandit, the Mysterion and the Orbitron. I was a huge fan of Ed Roth when I could go to the store and stand looking at the custom car magazines, and usually couldn't talk my mom into buying one for me.

A real shame, because he was a very creative genius. He passed away in April, 2001, and for the last 20 years of his life he was stripped of his creativity by tscc. Of course, his lifestyle and creative art was not a genre the Mormon church really appreciated. In the 80s he met a good Mormon girl and got married. I used to have some of his decals I picked up at a swap meet in the 70s.

Which was really a cartoon character called Rat Fink with drawings of custom cars and motorcycles. Around this time he also created the Rat Fink decals. He also was a custom builder in his own right, building such masterpieces as the Orbitron. He moved to Los Angeles and started working wit legendary car builders like George Barris.

He developed a great following for his designs. In the early 60s, he was working in Portland, Oregon as a car painter and pin stripes. Who here remembers Ed, Big Daddy Roth, and his Rat Fink decals? In the 60s, he was a pin stripper, car painter, designer and creator of the most awesome decals in the Ratfink designs.īut now we have 'The rest of the story'.

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