| dr. cliff meets the rat fink! | ||
| Mooneyes
usa held their rat-fink reunion December 13, 1998. Promised attendees included
Robert Williams, Coop, von Franco, and Big Daddy Ed Roth himself.
How could I NOT go? There was loads of free chow, cool cars, and
a tittie-bar right across the street. For christ's sake, this was
a gearhead's dream day. You bet your ass I was there.
A car was volunteered as a striping canvas, a cool-looking Bel-Air, I think. Then the boys started having their way with her... |
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| First, Roth
made a quick little squiggly on the decklid...
and the crowd went 'oooooohhhh'. |
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Then he
looked at it, frowned, and wiped it off with a rag and some thinner...
and the crowd went 'aaaaaaaawwww'. |
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| Then he
made a careful, beautiful little trim piece...
and the crowd was again impressed. |
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I grabbed a pic with Big Daddy while I was buying a shirt. He was a friendly guy with an impressive presence, this old man. There were several Roth-made cars on hand, in various states of restoration or decay. I kept looking at him, looking at the cars, thinking, man!, he BUILT those things! I couldn't help but be impressed, meeting the Rat Fink himself. I forgot to ask him if I could be his dentist- shit! | |