![]() We knew where Tweedy Pie was, but another well-known Roth machine-unquestionably his wildest of all-had been conspicuous by its absence for decades. Reportedly-predictably-an even bigger wad of money carted it to another new home after the show. I guess all it took to finally get it out of the garage was a big wad of money. Then bammo, there it was, looking like it did in 1962, on the floor at Cobo Hall in 2006. I knew where it was, but the owner would neither let me see nor photograph it. This car reappeared briefly in 1975, dressed in chrome trinkets by its new owners, then disappeared into an old wooden garage for the next 30 years. ![]() But it became a well-known, popular Roth-mobile when Rod & Custom splashed it on its cover as "Roth's New Rod!" in 1962, and Revell made a long-selling model kit of it. This little purple T-bucket roadster, ironically, was neither built by him (he stripped it, named it, then bought it), nor fiberglass (as nearly all other T-buckets were), nor had a bubbletop. ![]() '06) in a special posthumous Roth tribute, we thought nearly all of his far-out, fiberglass, mostly bubbletopped creations had finally been accounted for, especially with the totally unexpected appearance of Tweedy Pie. And that's just the way Big Daddy would want it.Īs of two years ago, when the Detroit Autorama featured a gathering of some 17 Roth-mobiles (both four- and three-wheel varieties HRM Aug. ![]() This story is so Ed Roth, it's almost unbelievable. ![]()
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