Ed “Big Daddy” Roth was the king of crazy showcars in the 1960s, and the father of monster shirts and one of hot rodding’s favorite mascots; Rat Fink. He created wild hot rods that fueled our hot rod fantasies and was able to tap into that with hundreds of car-themed monster shirts, plastic models, and decals, hats—basically a cornucopia of car tchotchkes that defined hot rodding and the 1960s. His youngest of five sons, Darryl, was the hoarder of the Roth clan, and has amassed an amazing assortment of all things Roth. From Rat Fink key chains sold in the millions, to restoring some of his father’s seminal creations like the “Druid Princess”, “Mega Cycle”, and “Wishbone”, Darryl has stayed connected to his father, who died in 2001. We thought we’d show you just a taste of what he has amassed, and also float that he’s looking to sell the entire collection, but only whole, and not piece-by-piece. You could instantly start your own Big Daddy Roth museum, or just open a Roth retail store of original artifacts. There’s original art, hundreds of Roth’s famous fax-o-grams drawn by Big Daddy himself, and also correspondence and art from one of Ed’s closest friends, Von Dutch. It will take just the right person willing to shell out the ducats to acquire this truly gigantic horde of Roth memorabilia, but that doesn’t mean we can’t at least take a look at some of the cool stuff Darryl has hidden deep inside of the Roth Family Vault.
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