Suedes Car Club
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: CJHacker on August 29, 2007 6:02 am
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The Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Orbitron was found last week and now has a new
owner.
The car was found in Mexico. It was used in a carnival for several years
and then as a trash can in front of an adult book store until just last
week.
The new owner hopes to restore it.
As agent for this endeavor, I will have up dated information to ya all
within the next couple of days.
Below is a couple of fotos taken of the car in it's disarray.
(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m134/moldy_marvin/ORBITRON007.jpg)
(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m134/moldy_marvin/ORBITRON002.jpg)
http://s223.photobucket.com/albums/dd151/Roth_Orbitron
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cool.... do you have any pics of how it looked back in the day?
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wow thats neat.
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A TRASH CAN!?!?! :cussing: :puke: Thank God its being brought back to its former glory.
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A TRASH CAN!?!?! :cussing: :puke:
Come on you have to admit, that was probably the coolest trash can ever.
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Congrats CJ, You found out about it before Moriarity did! I just got this:
"Wow, I cant believe that thing was found. If it ever gets to be for sale I want a crack at it. Let me know, Mark"
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I dont know it doesnt look like it was used as a trash can, but maybe just placed outside the store.
Luckily the car guy likes the adult book store otherwise it would not have been found.
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i thought fiberglass cars were bad, or is it cool cuz roth touched it?
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or is it cool cuz roth touched it?
YES.
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i thought fiberglass cars were bad, or is it cool cuz roth touched it?
who the hell is Kenneth Howard? :) :lol:
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him
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Here it is in the 1964 Car Craft.
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I have to say it is one of my LEAST favorite Roth cars, but it is good that it has survived and has been found.
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What a cool find! Roth was light years ahead of any other customizer of his time. When others were tacking on fins and playing with paint, he was scratch building the wildest rides from pure imagination.
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Here's a lil more from Moldy on it:
Wow, I can't believe it, how one can post a little information with a
few fotos on the inter web and within 24 hours later it becomes big
news! Amazing!
Well gang, Here is the scoop.
The car was originally owned by some introverted collector, a Doctor,
many years ago in the state of Texas.. it is also rumored that this
person also owned the Rotar which is now owned by Beau Boeckmann of
Galpin Motors in Van Nuys.
The Orbitron was traded by the Doctor to a guy for another project, this
guy got into some drug trouble and in turn traded it to his lawyer for
his fees. After that the lawyer sold it to another guy down south of the
boarder who then sold it to the carnival owner who was then killed in
1991 because he flaked on a drug deal.
The owner of the Adult Book store was the nephew of the carnival owner
and has had the Orbitron since 1991.
The owner of the book store believed that his uncle had actually built
the car but the only thing that the uncle had done to the car was to cut
off the nose of the vehicle and put a radiator in it to drive it around
the carnival grounds. The reason for cutting of the nose was to show all
of the chrome work that was hidden.
As a matter of fact for those of you that might remember, that the
Orbitron was not one of Roth's most popular cars because of this reason.
The mill and all of the chrome was pretty much hidden underneath the
hood and and the body of the car so therefore the car did not have the
impact... that Wow factor that most of the other cars that Roth had put
together.... maybe this was something that Ed Newton might have over
looked.. who knows..
But anyway...
The current owner restores cars for the elite down in Mexico and found
the Orbitron sitting in front of the bookstore and has been hounding the
family for over a year in regard to the sale of the car. The owners of
the book store didn't want to sell the car because of sentimental
reasons.
The current owner convinced the owner of the book store that he was
familiar with his uncles car, and if he had sentimental feelings for the
car, then why was it that he was allowing people to use it as a trash
can? and then convinced the owner of the book store that he could
restore the thing back to it's original condition. It was at that time
that the nephew finely let the thing go and sold it to the current
owner..
At this time the names, dates, locations and the current owner are being
kept under wraps, Why? Because the current owner has requested it.
The full story and any and all corrections of the information will be
released shortly once it is decided whether the current owner will
actually underwrite the restoration or if it will be sold to those who
have already made offers.
Yes, this story is true, it is the Orbitron, we have confirmed it, yes
that is the original mill, steering wheel, along with the wheels and
even the tires. And it even has remnants of the funky carpeting that Ed
Roth installed way back when.
As far as the restoration, we are currently working on the team of
builders.. Candidates include, Fritz, Mark and Larry Watson who
originally painted the car with a Candy Blue over a Pearl under coat.
So stay tuned Finksters there is more to come on this needle in the hay
stack, the last of the Mohicans, yes even for those of you who think
it's ugly!
Oh yeah, back to Ed Newton, the Newt is currently designing a new
creation that is being built as we speak.. News of that endeavor will be
released shortly too, so hang in there gang, times are changin' and
changin' for the good!
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!
tha Moldy one
Curator "The Orbitron Project"
http://s223.photobucket.com/albums/dd151/Roth_Orbitron/
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Geez...hard to find a color photo of her on the net yet....
(http://www.multimafia.no/revolusjonkel/images/395/edroth.jpg)
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here is another pic when Ace and Gary were using it.
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HAHAHA
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Wow! yeah, definetely not in as gooda shape as it used to be, but still cool that it is that intact. What other Roth cars are still out there and haven't been restored/found???
racerj- Roth didn't work with fiberglass actually. what he worked with was arabian horse hair stuck together with various rare tropical fluids that only he had discovered at the time. Due to the fact that he didn't copyright anything, we don't know waht magical tropical fluids these are. That's why his cars are so cool...because the materials he used was so rare. Only the "Big Daddy" could catch an Arabian Horse.