Build during the early 1960s, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Beatnik Bandit remains one of the most legendary customs ever conceived ...

Ed Roth seemed to care little about his show cars after he was done with them, to the extent he once told me he wanted to cut one into little pieces to sell as key chains. He dismissed the Orbitron, ...

Jeffrey Jones wrote the book on Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s radical twin-engine Mysterion hot rod. Actually, he wrote about his journey to replicate it. Two years after Jones’ book was published, his actual ...

While many concours events fit the age-old stereotype of being a bit stuffy and restrained, the annual Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance -held each March in the resort community of Amelia Island, ...

Roth's first custom car was conceived to help promote his expanding T-shirt business. It was designed in the T-bucket style, but with a completely custom fiberglass molded body and nose-cone. Another ...

Greg Cooper, 63, a custom car painter from Lancaster, Ohio, on his Surfink van: When I was a kid, I built models of Ed Roth cars. “Big Daddy” Roth was a hugely famous California artist and custom car ...

What do you get when you combine a dude from Minnesota, named Mark Moriarty, with the passion and imagination of the late Ed Roth? You get a homebuilt custom that looks like it came straight off the ...

LOS ANGELES -- -- Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, 69, a sign painter turned car designer whose outrageous automotive creations and grungy cartoon alter ego, Rat Fink, made him an icon of Southern California pop ...