Dave recently finished restoring his Roth trike! Wow it's beautiful! Hard to believe someone made it look as bad as it was when he found it in a trailer park in Hemet!

it was rough when he got it

Roths business card! Put in the glass on the underside of the bike!

https://www.facebook.com/Daves-Ed-Big-Daddy-Roth-Trike-Restoration-Page-674272822768360

It sure is cool to find that there's still one more thing out there that is new to me, that I haven't come across before, something I can share with you - as maybe you haven't either

Revell began to fund the creations themselves, and their agreement with Roth was to sell models of his creations and pay him a commission.

The problem with the Wishbone was that its delicate front wheels and suspension was too fine for model maker Revell to recreate at a small scale,

Since they couldn’t sell a model of the Wishbone it proved a costly issue for Roth, with no way to recoup his considerable investment. His solution was chopping it up and discarding it, maybe that was more of a catharsis than a carefully considered business decision, but a member of the team, Dirty Doug, was quite fond of the vehicle, so he requested to keep it for himself.

Roth agreed under the condition it was never reassembled. Obviously, this promise was not kept and the car was pieced back together. Roth was upset, as now, he was incapable of making money with the creation after relinquishing ownership.

The car resurfaced in the early 1990s and was sold at Auction to the Tupelo Automobile Museum.

Of all of the oddball creations dreamed up within Big Daddy's workshop, the Wishbone stands out on its own being one of the only one to be powered by a Volkswagen Motor.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25593/lot/526/
https://silodrome.com/ed-roth-big-daddy-wishbone/

A sidewinder dragster I've never heard of before, with Roth Studios on the tailfin

http://georgeklass.net/dragsters.html

The second sidewinder product of Jones, Reed and Mailliard was the 100-inch “5 Cycle Special”, a more refined and sexier progression of the first sidewinder. Again powered by a blown Chrysler Hemi, this time with a Gilmer belt spinning the 6-71 blower, the short dragster was still chain-driven. This was a consistent 9-second car running over 160mph. With Jack Chrisman at the wheel both team’s sidewinders competed at the 1959 NHRA Nationals at Detroit Dragway, with this car going all of the way before losing in the final round.

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/crazy-world-sideways-sidewinder-dragsters/

I hope the buyer drives the shit out of it, and takes it to the drag strip, and finally gives that creation the action it inferred it was made for

it just sold at auction for about 250k

https://www.rodauthority.com/event-coverage/1962-ed-roth-mysterion-re-creation-sells-for-246400-at-sothebys/

if you've ever wanted to by a Dave Mann piece of art, from the Roth Studios in 1966, here's your chance to own "New York Run"

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/ca18/the-petersen-automotive-museum-auction/lots/n0057-new-york-run-by-dave-mann-1966/729335

I would not have guessed it would be likely to find a Rat Fink vinyl wrap on a racing Porsche

the Beatnik Bandit and Ed Roth’s other crazy customs were featured at this years Amelia Island Concours

https://journal.classiccars.com/2018/03/19/beatnik-bandit-dream-comes-true-amelia-island-concours/

Philadelphia Hot Rod Show 1962

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/42972

I was really surprised to come across Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Rat Fink model kits at Comic Con! The booth also had a big selection of Weird Ohs, and a Mouse model kit too!

I'm double checking that I got the company name right, and will post more on this tomorrow

interesting Rat Fink diorama

https://twitter.com/haneken00000000?lang=en

Update, and serious Amazing... This is a Von Dutch piece... and the incredible series of coincidences were just what it took to get it identified - I'm gobsmacked

Here's the scoop!

Doug, god bless ya, knows George Bushmaster Schrieber, and emailed him to ask about this mask....

and here is the reply: (sit down for this!)

DOUG!
MY DEIST MASK!!! WHEN I WENT TO VON DUTCH"S HOUSE TO PICK UP MY HELMET, I HAD THE "DUTCHMAN" PAINT THE MONSTER FACE ON THE MASK!!! I WORE IT ONCE AT THE BEACH AND IT DIDN'T WORK AS THE CANOPY ON THE "FANG" HAD NO BREEZE THROUGH IT ON THE LINE AND I COULDN'T BREATHE---GOT ONE OF THE NEW "SIMPSONS" MASKS WITH FILTERS AS THE CANOPY WAS " AIR--NEGATIVE" !!! THANX AND THE BUSHMASTER STILL LUVS YA " !!!

So... is that not the most unreal thing of the year? A real no shit story from the only guy alive to know the facts, and only the strangest of coincidences put all the pieces in place for us to learn that this... is a Von Dutch piece of art... that no one knew of, or is alive to recall, except one guy!

So, my hat's off to Doug and George for sharing some incredible drag racing history with us! 

face mask identified (update July 10th)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1470000806479864/

This Deist fireproof face mask for the Yellow Fang, is a Von Dutch piece of art for George "Bushmaster" Schrieber. See comments for details

designs of Baron, Roth, and Kelly paintjobs, the "Crazy Painters"

Baron was about 62 years old when his grandson Kelly, 13 yrs old talked him into getting into business together. Baron had pinstriped for Studebaker and Ford.  Roth went into the Air Force in 1951, they stationed him at a UFO tracking station in Morocco. No shit.

Roth, got out of the military and was jumping from job to job, or address to address, and somehow, I find this astonishing, had the same street number on different streets. 4616 Slauson, and 4616 Firestone.

Only Ed Roth could pull that off.

Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth - His Life, Times, Cars, and Art By Pat Ganahl

Pat Ganahl's camper that he got Roth to pinstripe

the Rothnik, a tribute to Ed Roth's many show cars

Orbitron

TV placement isn't ideal, but damn, the blue fur was a cool touch

http://www.automobilemag.com/news/big-daddy-ed-roth-custom-cars-shown-2018-amelia-island-concours

Thanks to Steve for the Ed Roth images!

above, on Road Agent, a rear mounted Corvair engine, air cooled.... get it? No Motometer needed on an air cooled Corvair engine

Thanks Steve!

Ed Roth art I haven't seen before

http://junkyardwarrior.tumblr.com/

Hey! Ed Roth did a drawing for Wham-o's wheelie bar!

http://www.koolestuff.com/our-collection.html