![]() Kustom Kulture artist Coop points out that while Roth never really considered the Orbitron a complete success, it is the car at the center of “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,” author Tom Wolfe’s influential mid-60s book that helped define Kustom Kulture as a movement.Īnd that explains why the car guys are a-twitter today, like this one, again from the message boards: ![]() Roth, who spent much of the Seventies living and working in Orange County, died a few years ago, but thanks to the enduring popularity of Kustom Kulture cars and art - including his counterculture icon, Rat Fink - his legend continues to grow. It was used in a carnival for several years and then as a trash can in front of an adult book store until just last week,” read the bulletin that set off a long thread of excited conversation. Until today, when word of its discovery started circulating on car club message boards: Ed “Big Daddy” Roth built some of the most fantastic custom cars of all time - the Outlaw, the Beatnik Bandit, the Mysterion - and most of those cars are in expensive museum pieces today.īut the whereabouts of one his creations, the Orbitron, had remained a mystery, seemingly lost, possibly destroyed. ![]()
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