This fiberglass Kustom hot rod was featured in the January 1960 issue of Car Craft. By the August 1959 issue of Car Craft "Weirdo shirts" had become a full-blown craze with Roth at the forefront of the movement. Roth began airbrushing and selling "Weirdo" T-shirts at car shows and in the pages of Car Craft magazine as early as July 1958. Roth is best known for his grotesque caricatures - typified by Rat Fink - depicting imaginary, out-sized monsters driving representations of the hot rods that he and his contemporaries built. The 1961 Beatnik Bandit hot rod at the National Automobile Museum, Reno, Nevada Beatnik Bandit II and a few of Roth's other cars are also on display in this museum. He studied engineering at a Los Angeles college, then served in the United States air force, and, by the early '50s, was experimenting with fibreglass modelling.Ī white car with brown stripes, with open wheels and a clear bubble canopy over twin seats, and exposed, chromed engine with a blower. He grew up in Bell, California, attending Bell High School, where his classes included auto shop and art.Īt age 14 Roth acquired his first car, a 1933 Ford coupe. Roth was born in Beverly Hills, California. Roth was a key figure in Southern California's Kustom Kulture and hot rod movement of the late 1950s and 1960s. Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (1932 – 2001) was an American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder who created the hot rod icon Rat Fink and other characters.
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