Hot Rods

by Ed Roth, Tony Thacker

From the mind of Mr. 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. 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. ""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. 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.

128 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1995

Reviews

[B · Rating 4 out of 5]

Innovator... from a more honest and simpler time, if he were alive today and trying to do what he did in the late 50's and 60's he couldn't. There would be no way to compete with Foose and the big dollar guys with their tv shows. Roth was nuts and crazy and just did what he did with a farmers knowledge.

[DJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learn alot from this book. It is kind of hard to explain