Famous Big Daddy Ed Roth's
Beatnic Bandits I
In 1957 Big Daddy Ed Roth
work a new material called
fiberglass. Ed Roth Created
The Outlaw was Covered In:
Ed Big Daddy Roth's Outlaw
It covers how Ed Roth made
his bodies, how he got the name
"Big Daddy", he sold his first
custom Little Jewel to pay for
chrome, Outlaw was sold, how
Revell started making these
Ed Big Daddy Roth model kits.
Outlaw model designer, and
much more interesting facts,as
The Outlaw was a creation on
the back of a Weirdo Shirt on
the back, what it took to build it.
make a bubble top with a corner
side driver sides hinge, that open
and closes. However, this idea was
not practical. So Big Daddy had
asked Daryll Starbird, how he
made his bubble tops. He told
Ed Roth, and he was happy, with
his bubble top custom. A master-
piece of art in not only the paint,
but also, the engine, interior, and
body and fenders. This bar in
the car opens the top, also run the
car, and even heater and the air
conditioning. Another thing the
wide whites, with pie crust slicks
in the rear with chrome reverse
wheels and baby moons. The rear
has pearl white bullets all on the
back. The four red oval cylinder
taillights on top are four sets of
chrome bullets on top of each
taillight. The front had two head-
lights with the body covering the
headlights with its cool custom
styling. The nose had a Ford like
Starliner cut out in a oval shape,
to fit the nose. On top of the nose
was mounted a chrome cool Roth
hood ornament. The suspension
was all independent suspension in
real chrome. A Oldsmobile type
differential in the rear, works well
with the blown cool Oldsmobile
wild engine and transmission, to
the drive line. The white leather
custom bucket seats, headrests
with dashboard, makes this into a
rocket ship, that takes off. The car
can really move. Even those wild
custom chrome carburetors look
wild on the blower. When you put
this wild car as a whole, you have
of art and engineering cool wild
masterpiece. No one could come
close to this in art and design.
When the Beatnic Bandit was
finished, it was then sold to the
man, who bought Outlaw. Again
Bob Larivee Sr. bought his cool
bubble top Beatnic Bandit. So
Ed Roth was ready to start his
next car; Mysterion.
You may wonder why do you
see the Beatnic Bandit painted
lime gold, with green scallops.
The answer is when Mysterion
the two Ford 289 CID engines
with six chrome jewel chrome
air cleaners, drenched in cool
chrome, with cut down slotted
mags in front and Tri-Rib
Rader, whitewall pie crust slicks,
cyclops eye with wings, a bubble
top black pinstriped top, in a
pearl yellow with air dams, that
looked like a dragster was done.
Bob Larivee Sr. had to have it.
So he traded back both Outlaw,
and Beatnic Bandit for it.
In 1968 Mattel came out with
Hot wheels, they had a contract
to add Ed Roth's cool car the
Beatnic Bandit to Hot wheels.
However, he had to paint his
car lime gold, and cyan cool
tinted seats, with a blown
engine. So Ed Roth, had his
engine cyan with the cool
carburetors changed to two
four barrels, and Weiand
triangle air cleaners. These
tires are in a gauze to make
the car look like it is moving
in the photo in green. Wider
tires were added with cool
Crager SS Diamond Spoke
Mags on all four corners.
Only when he was accepted
back in the eighties, did people
again, started asking for him. He
then around 1984 The Hot Rod
Series, helped Revell retool the
Outlaw, Beatnic Bandit and the
cool Mysterion. later, bubble top
Road Agent was reissued. He
built two cars Beatnic Bandit II
and Stealth, which wasn't as wild
as the Beatnic Bandit II. He did
make a wild '34 trike with flames.
It was called the Globe Hopper.
It is down below in yellow with
red orange flames and cool mags.
They were also Big Daddy Ed Roth
shows yearly, with professional
painting artists that had painted every-
thing: cans to motorcycle gas tanks.
He passed away in April 2001 of a
heart attack. In 2001 Revell/Mona-
gram created his Big Daddy Roth's
'56 Ford F-100 with red flames up
the sides of the body in red. The
truck was in white with bed cover
and hubcaps. It was really perfect
model, of his shop truck.
