Motorcycle Big Daddy Roth Art

Ed big daddy roth art work.

Motorcycle big daddy roth art. He created the rat fink image designs. He had a copycat rat fink mascot sold t shirts and even dressed up like roth with a goatee top hat and tails. Ed big daddy roth march 4 1932 april 4 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. Read more about another historically correct restoration of an ed big daddy roth car and motorcycle done by fritz.

He created the rat fink image designs. The two tone skyblue metalflake hauler carries a custom triumph motorcycle built originally by bob aq. Roth was a key figure in southern california s kustom kulture and hot rod movement of the late 1950s and 1960s. There was a a hole named karl smith now also dead in florida that copied roth and called himself big daddy rat.

Ed big daddy roth art work. Roth s dislike for mickey mouse led him to draw the original rat fink art. He also created a ton of lesser known hotrods that were. Fritz schenck built the roswell rod as a tribute to ed big daddy roth in this unique design is all hand formed fiberglass.

Loved his rat fink stuff as a kid. Rat fink art rat fink is one of the several hot rod characters created by one of the originators of kustom kulture ed big daddy roth.