At home I passionately striped everything in sight: garage door hardware, lawn-mower, every painted surface I could find! I became the young striper for several local friends’ cars.
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Weeks following I went back to Roth’s shop and he showed me how to pinsripe and gave me 2 of his older striping sword brushes. We talked and he gave me the owner’s Anaheim address and I h’hiked it over to show him, and drooled over the original in his garage. He was totally impressed, and sat down and painted “Tweedy Pie” on its tiny gas tank (gratis) just like the big one. So I hitch-hiked it over to Ed Roth’s shop in Southgate ’cause I knew he had done the pinstriping and wanted to show him. I was really into it, made wider rear wheels using 3 halves rather than 2, chrome thumbtack heads for “baby Moons”, a fat pencil and “green-stuff” body putty for the gas tank, sewing thread for engine ignition wires, custom mixed the purple paint. The next month I created a totally fine reproduction of it with parts from various stock antique car model kits (there were no hot rod or custom car kits at this time). I went to a car show in Long Beach and was enamored by this little ’23 T purple roadster, took a photo using my mother’s Kodak 110.*not my photo The “Tweedy Pie” Roadster_ġ958 – I was 15 and my interest was reading hot rod magazines and customizing kit models. The 33 Ford pk up I built is in Birmingham England……Cheer`s Greybeard Limey Bri A 34 Ford 5 window which is now in Sweden & a 35 Ford pk up now in Sweden, this one I regret selling so Ive just purchased another one from Concord CA. over the years Ive built a 32 Ford 5 window which is now in Costa Mesa CA & is still rite hand drive. My last build up before I go to the Big Hot Rod Club up there, its a 35 Ford Pk Up. How times have changed, Ive now got a phone & a credit card & have just shipped over my 2nd Hot Rod from your Great Country. Im afraid due to several house moves the super brown envelope got lost & the sweat shirt just wore out. Also a letter of apolergie for not sending it sooner, my order had been lost. I carefully opened it & inside was my sweatshirt with Wiedo driving a coupe, gearshift poking out of the roof, my mate John was green with envy. Man this was better than the crown jewels. Around 6mths after posting my money order I came home from work my Wife say`s ” the postie delivered you a real fancy brown envelope” Wow!!! I knew were it was from, my name & address was air brushed in Candy Colors also it was pin stripped all over. Still no reply, time goes by & I forgot all about it. I sent a money order thru my bank.,3mths past bye & no sweat shirt so I sent dear ol Edd a strong letter asking for my money back. I had no phone & there were no credit card`s. my mate John Gilbey & me used to drool over your great Hot Rods in the American Mags anyhow I decided to send a money order across the pond for a Edd Roth sweat shirt, he had become one of my hero`s. There were only 2 very dedicated Hot Rodder`s in Grimsby we broke away from our motor bike gang & was hooked on American Hot Rods. SHARE this post, by clicking on the toolbar below.Hi Guys I thought you may like to here this story from England in the late 50 `s. SUBSCRIBE to HiLo Hero updates via Facebook.
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Revell dropped Roth like a hot potato around 1970 when they found out he was riding with the Hell’s Angels, but Big Daddy had the last laugh a couple of decades later - as major museums discovered Kustom Kulture, and Roth’s unique contribution to it.Įach day, HILOBROW pays tribute to one of our favorite high-, low-, no-, or hilobrow heroes on that person’s birthday. Mostly though, you knew him as the creator of Rat Fink, a snaggle-toothed anti-Mickey that provided an acerbic counterpoint to Disney‘s wimpy mouse. Roth himself - dressed in top hat and tails after Revell complained about his personal style - was probably in the merchandise booth, airbrushing tees and selling decals and other merch to the adoring masses. Or maybe you saw the Beatnik Bandit, Orbitron, Druid Princess, or one of his other custom jobs at your local car show.
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Even if you didn’t know his name, you knew Roth’s “Kustom Monsters,” either airbrushed on a t-shirt or one of a series of Revell model kits. Tom Wolfe may have called car customizer and artist ED ROTH (1932-2001) “the Salvador Dali of the movement,” but in the mid-1960s if you were a teen, or a teen’s kid brother or sister, you just knew that “Big Daddy” Roth was the coolest of the cool.
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