![]() ![]() My very old-school father though took one look at it, confiscated it and used it for a rag in the garage. I then bought a Revell Brother Rat Fink T-Shirt Iron-On Transfer at the Seven Mile Hobby Shop just west of the Southfield Expressway in Detroit in the early summer of 1965 and successfully applied it to one of my T-shirts: That issue proved key in shaping my interests since it also prompted me to send away to Millar Publications for every back issue of Drag Cartoons and Big Daddy Roth magazine I could get and also sparked an abiding interest in hot rods that's stayed with me to the present day. What's certain is that this ad which appeared in issue #16 of Drag Cartoons that I bought in May 1965 sealed the deal in turning me into a "Big Daddy" Roth fanatic for life: Wow! Winning "Big Daddy" Roth's company as a house guest for a week! How cool would that be? A girl in her early teens from New Jersey actually won the contest with her "Scuz-Fink" submission. I also remember gazing with wonder at this ad which also appeared on the back cover of some DC comics as well as on the back cover of issue #4 of Big Daddy Roth magazine: And who could of course afford relatively more expensive spray paint cans! My desire for all things Roth was then further stoked by these ads:Įven though I saw such a Testor's paint display stand at the hobby shop above Cowan's Hardware in downtown London, I knew these paints were for more sophisticated cooler kids who could actually paint. Later in perhaps early 1965 I bought this even wilder Revell Roth Mysterion kit that I'd been admiring for several months at Tuckey Hardware: I bought it almost immediately, built it nicely but left it unpainted: While I was strongly drawn to the Revell "Big Daddy" Roth custom car and fink kits right from start, I don't clearly remember when and where I first learned of these kits or "Big Daddy" Roth's existence. It was perhaps from an ad for one of his model kits in Boy's Life magazine in 1963 or so:īut I clearly remember looking at the Revell Beatnik Bandit model kit at the Tuckey Hardware store two blocks from my house in London, Ontario sometime in early 1964:Ī few months afterward I was completely knocked out when I saw the Revell Rat Fink model kit at the Coles bookstore on Dundas Street in downtown London. I have a pretty good collection of the model cars and quite a few of the Rat Fink buttons, that I believe Topps put out but would have to dig them out to be sure.īig Daddy was an icon and hopefully will always be remembered. Right before the pandemic we decided that we were too old to be throwing a leg over the side or sitting on the big back tires to get in so we sold the car. ![]() It was a show car but wouldn't be hurt as long as no one was holding an ice cream and drink while sitting inside. ![]() They all wanted to sit in the T and pretend to drive and I always let them and encouraged moms to put their kids behind the wheel. Our last outing in 2017 a lot of kids came by and no one recognized the Rat. In the late 1990's a lot of people recognized the pin striping and the Rat Fink adornment and even the tee shirts. At shows we wore our Rat Fink tee shirts with the big RF on the back. View Member Profile Send Email Find Member's Topics Find Member's Posts n5gwuįor quite a few years my wife and I had a 1927 Ford T Bucket with Rat Fink painted on the front spring hanger. The Rat Fink design thereafter sold by Roth Studios as decals and on T-shirts was Leynnwood's reworked version with slightly simplified R.F. Jack Leynnwood's very slightly reworked Rat Fink then became "Big Daddy" Roth's signature piece. Revell's staff artist Jack Leynnwood then cleaned up the art just a bit by trimming the hair in and around Rat Fink's ears and rounding the "R" for the Revell model kit which was issued just a few months later in 1963: Here it is with its classic colouring scheme applied by Weldonmc: ![]() The original pencil and ink drawing may have been rendered by Carl Kohler early in the year before he was supplanted by Wes Bennett as Roth's go-to artist. The iconic Rat Fink image made its first appearance in the July 1963 issue of Car Craft magazine in an ad entitled "The rage in California". There are no vintage card sets devoted to Rat Fink or any of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's creations. View Member Profile Send Email Find Member's Topics Find Member's Posts Balticfox ![]()
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