Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Tribute Thread!

[weldonmc]

Well ...it's been yet another "LONG HAUL" trying to get this one finished ...but here it is. A high gloss nail polish was brushed on the teeth and eyeballs for the wet look and some catalyzed automotive clear was airbrushed on the sutfboard.

[Scatter]

Perfection!!

[Hepcat]

How many hours do you think you put in working on this piece?

[weldonmc]

Thank you Scatter!

How many hours? ...I would have to guess 40-50 hours. I had it for 5 months and had to force myself to work on it ...sometimes it would be a week or so before I would do anything to it.

[zombywoof]

Excellent Fink you have there, weldonmc, simply beautiful!

Here's my recently completed Fink Eliminator, box stock, heh.



Just have Mothers Worry, Surf Fink and Boss Fink left to complete da Finks.

[Hepcat]

Here's my recently completed Fink Eliminator, box stock, heh.

If that's how you would have done it at the age of ten, why do it differently now? And I love the way you painted it by the box!

[weldonmc]

Cool FINK ELIMINATOR Zombywoof ...OL' BLUE EYE!

[jimm]

If that's how you would have done it at the age of ten, why do it differently now? And I love the way you painted it by the box!

I know what you mean, I enjoy both the period look and the modern finish, bring 'em all on!!

[Street Worm]

Here's a few more of my Finky favorites-

Todd Schorr's Hiwantha Encounters the Purple People Eater
(very Scuz Finkish...)



Sonny DePalma's custom garage-



https://www.facebook.com/sonny.depalma?sk=photos

Dave Burke's Martian Fink



Remember when Todd McFarlane almost had the Rat Fink license?



& the 18" Johnny Ace Frankenfink
(one of my 'grails')

[Street Worm]

[Monster Bob]

In the early 1980s, I was hanging with my best bud, the late Erik "Hi Fi" Kish (of Hi Fi and the Roadburners), who lived in West Chicago at the time. We were both into 50s/rockabilly big time (played together in bands), and this day went to the DuPage County fairgrounds to an old car swap meet, looking for parts for our cars- I had a '52 Ford and he had a '49 Buick. After wandering the grounds for a couple of hours, we come across a small booth in the very corner of the fairgrounds, and to our shock, it was Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, selling T-shirts and just hanging out in a lawn chair. We idolized the guy and couldn't believe he was sitting there with us. The funniest part about it- nobody cared who he was at the time! People just wandered past. It's just really odd to me, because now the guy is treated like a god!

[jimm]

Kinda similar to Jack Kirby imo

[Hepcat]

...we come across a small booth in the very corner of the fairgrounds, and to our shock, it was Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, selling T-shirts and just hanging out in a lawn chair. We idolized the guy and couldn't believe he was sitting there with us. The funniest part about it- nobody cared who he was at the time! People just wandered past. It's just really odd to me, because now the guy is treated like a god!

That was certainly the case in the seventies and eighties. Only an isolated few fans still cared about "Big Daddy" Roth. I think it was the Kenner Rad Rod and Hydro Racer toys that sparked the reinterest in "Big Daddy" Roth in 1990:





Roth diecast toys and all kinds of other items then began to hit store shelves.

I ordered about a dozen T-shirts from "Big Daddy" Roth himself in 1993-94. His wife referred to it as "the big order" when I phoned him about it some four weeks later. I now wish I'd order another couple of dozen. Better yet, I should have gotten an original airbrush painting from him at the time. By 2000 after the resurgence of his popularity was well under way, he was asking $1000 for one of these. I suspect they'd go for several $thousand now.

[MDG]

I think Big Daddy's revival was more due to the lowbrow art movement and wasn't (still isn't) really a mainstream things. I dont thing the rad rods and other mass market toys on the 90s ever really caught on.

[ilikemonsters]

I won this at a Ratfink reunion auction years ago. Big Daddy auctioned it himself, it was for a Children's Hospital fundraiser.
I can hit myself for not getting a picture with him.
He told me it was one of the prototypes for the stuffed rat finks they did.

ratfinkproto by ilikemonstersxoxo, on Flickr

At least I got him to autograph it, he asked where to sign it and I said anywhere so he, of coarse, picked this spot!


BigDaddyAuto by ilikemonstersxoxo, on Flickr


Eric