You could spot the cars from blocks away, and the people, too. The cars were loud, low-slung and lean. The drivers had big bellies and big beards. Or elaborate tattoos of flaming and ...

2001-04-07 04:00:00 PDT Manti, Utah-- Edward Roth, "Big Daddy" to 1960s teenagers and creator of curvaceously customized cars and delightfully repugnant cartoon characters, notably the slobbering ...

The Rat Fink Reunion, which has been held for 18 years in Manti, will be held virtually for the first time. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now.

Roth also pinstriped cars and made his own outlandish show cars. He passed away in 2001, and the reunion started shortly thereafter. Larger than life Rat Fink greets visitors at the Rat Fink Museum.

A sub-culture of the car show world is one of pin-striping, graphic drawings on t-shirts and a general artistic expression that goes beyond the paint job on a show car.

As family lore has it, I met Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, car customizer and weirdo underground artist extraordinaire, once. It would have been in the early 1990s at the St. Ignace Car Show in ...

The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is pleased to present the art, cars, and automobilia of legendary Kustom Kulture artist Ed "Big Daddy" Roth in a new exhibit that runs October 28th ...

The 2018 Amelia Island Concourse d'Elegance hosts the Ed “Big Daddy” Roth Rat Fink Reunion of cars, showcasing one of hot rodding's most colorful builders.

A hot-rodding uncle ensured my early exposure to Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s Rat Fink, an “anti-Mickey Mouse” cartoon character of immense popularity in the mid-1960s. “The name Ed Roth is ...

A Rat Fink statue watching over the Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Rat Fink Museum in Manti. You'll be able to visit the museum and catch a performance from the Surfaris, the band behind the 1963 hit "Wipe ...