Hot Rods by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0760328935 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Excellent Photo-History of Roth's Visionary Cars" according to Ricardo Mio. If you grew up in the 1950s and 60s, it's likely you were nuts about cars, especially custom cars and hot rods. Each month you bought one or all of the trade magazines--Hot Rod, Rod and Custom, Car Craft, etc. The king of the customizers were primarily George Barris and Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Barris built far more cars, while Roth was the wild visionary, who created about one car per year. His break-out rod was "The Outlaw," a show-stopper that stunned even rival custom. Kindle Customer said Hot Rods by Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth. This is one of two books that I owe about Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (the other book is "Confessions of a Rat Fink"). If you love hot rods and "Rat Fink" cartoons, both of these books should be in your collection. If there was a "Hot Rodder Hall of Fame", Big Daddy deserves to be in it. I grew up loving cars and I have several old comic books with cartoons drawn by Big Daddy. In this book, Big Daddy tells some of his secrets about the hot rods he built. Good pictures too.. Too Tubby Too Long said Big Daddy's book on his cars.. This man is a cultural icon for the period, and this book allows him to tell his story, with counterpoint from other participants. The photos of the cars are great. This is not an unbiased history, but gives a flavor of the real character of this character. Highly entertaining read for the car nut.
""The Salvador Dali of the movement,"" Tom Wolfe called him, ""a surrealist in his designs, a showman by temperament, a prankster""and Roth’s larger-than-life personality comes across here as he tells how he arrived at his famous ""plaster and fiberglass"" method of constructing his sculptures on wheels (It could be done ""by people with little or no talent and I had both,"" as he put it.) and shows off some of his more outlandish models. Since Ed "Big Daddy" Roth first told his tale, a whole new generation has discovered the creator of Rat Fink, Beatnik Bandit, and Mysterion-and this now-classic illustrated autobiography gives new and old fans alike a look into the shop and studio. A fitting tribute to an outlaw legend, this book brings Big Daddy’s work to wild and wonderful life, and lets us hear the man’s incomparable voice one more time.. Gasser himself, with behind-the-scenes pictures from his own files, comes the story of the life and times and art of this icon of hot rodding and visionary of Kustom Kulture. From the mind of Mr
AutoArt Magazine, November/December 2007“Reveals his life and work in his own words and pictures, preprinted for a new generation that has discovered his art.”