Seriously.

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Actually, were this 1995, I wouldn’t have expected to find the Orbitron anywhere else, but since the explosion in Roth-mania since the man’s death six years ago, the fact that it served as a trash bin outside of an adult bookstore in Mexico is pretty surprising, along with the fact that nobody recognized it until just recently. Of course, before that, it was used in a carnival for several years. Looking at the pictures, it’s mighty rough, missing a lot of essential pieces, including the nosecone and the bubble top. But considering the length some guys have gone to not just restore, but re-create some Roth vehicles lately, I imagine this one will be hitting the shows again soon. I bet cleaning the trash out of the car must have been a trip.

Photobucket album of find.

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what the Orbitron looked like back when.

(Bortz is famous for gathering and restoring the long-lost and forgotten General Motors Motorama cars of the fifties, and I'll bet he'd LOVE to have one of Roth's creations.

That's just a sin. I grew-up loving Big Daddy. He was cooler than cool. Ask any boomer carnut.

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Seeing as I never knew him, it could be somewhere in between too.

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Well- you can scrutinize anything.

Consider this custom car is just sitting on the street being used as a trash bin in a seedy part of town for a decade- and it still has its wheels!

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Ed Roth made some really cool stuff... he also made some really bizarre stuff, too... this is a good example of the latter!

At least he literally built his cars from the frame up. What modern "custom builder" does that? But, I see drum front brakes on a drag show car. yikes.

Oh, I wasn't trying to be critical of his work. It's all amazing. But so much stuff from that era is just so over the top! You don't see anything like it today... it's all the same, car after car. He was seriously creative and not afraid to try just about anything.

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I am still amazed this car has so many original parts after being left on the street. That engine is surely worth a few bucks- even just in metal scrap value.

FS: 2006 Honda Civic LX sedan

Unban Ben.

BTW just an interesting factoid; Ed "Big Daddy" Roth attended the same HS I graduated from. Back then it was pretty much all white and now it's pretty much all Hispanic.

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Why bother. I know how to get herpes if I really want to also; but I'm not going to work for it.

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...I really don't know if I should be amused or dismayed. Definitely suprising..and exciting; that is to see it come back to it's former glory.

"I'm sure those windmills will keep them cool-"
"WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!"

Well, the TV-set i gone

Big Daddy Roth is one of my happy childhood memories. Great dude. Freddy Flameout RULZ!

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leno gets drunk heads to TJ for a show, wanders back to la in a stupor wonders where he left car...

If you think the Subaru Impreza hatch is ugly in pictures, see it in real life. I thought it was disgusting, then I sat in one and played with the bells and whistles. Loved it.

I distinctly remember attending the AUTORAMA! shows of the early 70's and seeing these cars, along with many crazy and wonderful, energetic designs.....I can remember getting "wood" as young boy at those shows.....girls were not part of that equation, but cars were.

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That looks awesome

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Isn't that right around the corner from the donkey show?

LOL.

I wonder how it ended up in Mexico - outside of a porn shop no less...

Of course, I never saw the actual cars and only got to see photos during my twice weekly runs to the local newsstand where I would spend an hour reading before dropping a nickel on the counter for a few pieces of gum. The money I saved by not buying the mags, I spent on the models.

To this day, the smell of good model glue makes me feel like I'm 8 years old again. Of course, that may have something to do with the fact that I now empty the entire tube into a bag before I sniff it... but that's another story.

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Last I remember, Roth was working on a new interpretation of "Rat Fink" in the mid-90's, powered by a Geo Metro 3-cylinder of all things. Anybody know what happened there?

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Wait...wuh?

Looks like my neighborhood.

i'd rather not think about what kind of things have been in that car.

Modified by adROCK319 at 1:00 PM 8-30-2007

I'm not sure what you mean by that. It's an immobile vehicle sitting next to an adult book store. OMG- look at all the casually discarded receipts!!!!!