Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth was a member of the minor household gods when I was kid. He was the creator of totally whacked out kustom kars and the infamous Rat Fink character.
It's said that Rat Fink was Big Daddy's anti-Mickey - and anything that was contrary to Disney was OK to a rebellious youth.
As I grew older and learned more about Big Daddy it became apparent that this guy was a class A curmudgeon. And that's a good thing, but he led a pretty hard life after his brief moment in the sun in the early '60s.
Big Daddy created a number of cars which were destined to inspire model car kits from Revell. One of those cars, the Orbitron, had a mysterious life (and never became a Revell model). It fell off the edge of the known universe sometime in the 1970s and here is the tale of it's reemergence. A word of caution is in order, the tale is reminiscent of a great Hunter S. Thompson story, so be forewarned. But enjoy.
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