Ed Roth seemed to care little about his show cars after he was done with them, to the extent he once told me he wanted to cut one into little pieces to sell as key chains. He dismissed the Orbitron, ...

"Big Daddy" Ed Roth was a principal founding member of what became known as the Kustom Kulture car cult during the 1960s in Southern California. Roth, one of the pioneers of modifying cars as rolling ...

Every car has a story. But few are as good as the one surrounding “The Orbitron,” the space-age ride created in 1964 by California’s most renowned custom car builder, Ed “Big Daddy” Roth. The car had ...

Ed Roth was a man of many talents: Painter, pinstriper, airbrush artist, fabricator. And there was one more, maybe as important as the others. Today we'd call it marketing; in earlier days it would be ...

Finding a battered Orbitron, one of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's most iconic custom cars, in Mexico is like finding JD Salinger slumped over a bottle of Mescal in a Tijuana speakeasy. The 1964 product of the ...

While many concours events fit the age-old stereotype of being a bit stuffy and restrained, the annual Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance -held each March in the resort community of Amelia Island, ...

One of the coolest car collections in SoCal just got one vehicle cooler. The Galpin Auto Sports collection is right next door to the custom shop made famous in that seminal television hit “Pimp My ...