Faves
Outlandish Creations...
& Livin’ Long Enuf To See More!

By Ed "Big Daddy" Roth

Everyone’s got a “fave” set o’wheels or food. At the shows I hear a lot o’dudes talkin’ about this engine or that meal or some outrageous bike...y’know the story. Now I know chicks stand around tellin’ each other how “swell” their kids or grandkids are but “bench racing” & good restaurants are good rappin in any garage. I got this “bad rap” from many years ago about eatin’ pizzas “Big Time” & gobblin’ down large amounts o’root beer, etc. Boy! Them were the days. I did that!! Y’see, wot nobody mentions is that we use to lock ourselves (me & Dirty Doug) in the garage early in the mornin’ & work hard & not come out ‘til supper time. Certainly we were hungry. So at the car shows, everyone always axes me if I need a drink or sumpthin’ to eat...so rather than seem unhospitable I just say “Ya Man!!!” So I always end up with this humongeous pile of goodies from Salsa to Lemon Pies. I useta’ eat it all. Like the time this guy brings in 4 (four) lemon pies which lasted me from Minneapolis down to Kansas City. Yum! Yum!! Or the 50 pounds of Popcorn seed that the “Popcorn Man” from Casey (Pronounced KZ) Illinois gave me last year. Ate it all! I got the gout a coupla years ago. Can’t eat all that stuff any more. Just baked potatoes & salads!! NO ICE CREAM or pie. Chinese food is OK!

As far as bikes & cars go, I picked up on these 2 outlandish creations that I really dug at a California car show. The CCx10 is a bike that I could really dig upon. I think the two dudes that built it are from Australia or New Zealand. I can just picture myself trippin’ down the freeway at 120 miles an hour with the cops in hot pursuit & the radio blastin’ w/Beach Boys sounds. Engine bellowing & wind rippin’ my cheeks back. No helmet!! Why ruin my fantasy? Then there’s this Nash “bathtub” that I spotted at Oakland. There it was! This absolutely “cherry” Chevy-powered Nash woody just sittin’ in the middle o’hot rods & customs & if this car coulda talked, it probably woulda said “Take me home Big Daddy.” But, see, here’s the deal. I figure if a guy gets all the toys he could ever want & all the pizza & pies ever made, then he would up & die... so I try to wipe those kind’sa things outa my mind.

I wanna stick around & pump out some more cars...after all...I got enuf stuff in my garage to build a coupla cars & that’s more important than sittin’ around with a gut full o’bagels & lemon pie!!

(Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Rat Fink, Beatnik Bandit, Road Agent, Mysterion, Stealth 2000, Surfite, Wild Child, Mothers Worry, & Dragnut are all trademarks of Ed Roth (C) '99.)

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