Car That Ate My Brain 2 follows filmmaker, hot rod historian and builder Piero De Luca of Mad Fabricators in his quest to build a replica of the car known as " Tweedy Pie" a 1923 Model T Ford roadster made famous by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Ĭar That Ate My Brain 2: Episode 1 Tweedy Pie History. In 1958, a couple of years after the car was finished, Bob had Ed Roth pinstripe the car. Bob's roadster was upholstered by Lee Garofolo of Lee's Golden Needle in Garden Grove, California. Dick also did a lot of the metal work on the car. Bob's nephew Dick Johnston painted the car in Bob's garage in Bellflower, were he lived before he moved to Anaheim. The car was painted with more then 40 coats of lacquer using a vacuum cleaner.
Once the bodywork was done, the car was painted in a one off mix, copied from a Union 76 oil called Royal Triton Purple. The gas tank on the car was from a 1941 Willys. Bob was a instrument mechanic at one of the local airplane factories, so according to Ed Roth who later bought the car from Bob, the car was fit with "the best gauges known to man". The wheelbase on the altered deuce frame was reduced to 84 inches. Bob widened the body of the car 3 inches, before he channeled it over bobbed 1932 Ford frame rails. “But I’ve never seen such a division of mankind.Tweedy Pie is a 1923 Ford Model T Roadster originally owned and built by Orange County Ignitors member James Robert Johnston aka Bob Johnston of Anaheim, California between 19. Rows of classic cars were parked outside the church and Roth’s coffin was festooned with pinstripes.“The car guys did their best to be on their best behavior,” Hafen laughed. Roth’s Mormon friends were on one side of the church and his L.A.crowd was on the other, Hafen explained with a laugh. Church members as well as his hot rod-era friends attended the funeral. “He knew how much his art was worth to me.”
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“I can still picture Ed eating a bag of burgers while I’m going through his personal archive of artwork,” Hafen remembers. Most of the artwork he remembered from his childhood had been redone after Roth converted to Mormonism, but he did walk away with the refrigerator door the original Rat Fink was painted on, as well as Mud Truckin’, which Roth signed. “I had very specific things I was looking for,” he said. When Hafen traveled to Manti to choose some of Roth’s art, he went with a shopping list. Hafen traded a sapphire, gold and diamond ring for some of Roth’s artwork. Hafen couldn’t quite understand the concept, so Roth sculpted his idea out of clay and drove it to Hafen’s shop. Then Roth met Ilene, and sent Hafen more sketches. “He could be no one else and that proved too much for her.” “He was still Big Daddy Roth,” Hafen explained. Roth sent him sketches, but the engagement didn’t work out. When that marriage ended in divorce, Roth began frequenting singles dances and met a woman he wanted to marry. He married his third wife and moved to Manti, Utah. Midlife, Roth began re-examining his situation and subsequently joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Rat Fink t-shirts were extremely popular then, and still sell well through hotrod websites. Roth’s most widely recognized cartoon character, Rat Fink, was the monster-like antithesis of Mickey Mouse.
He received 1-cent from each kit sold and in 1963 earned $32,000 in royalties.
The Revell toy company produced model car kits from Roth’s designs. With the advent of fiberglass construction, Roth began designing and fabricating fantastic one-of-a-kind hotrods. He studied engineering in college, but building cars is what interested him most. Roth grew up in California and had an affinity for both fast cars and drawing grotesque cartoon caricatures. He gave me his card and called me about a month later.” When they met, Hafen gave Roth his card and told him, “I build lots of custom design stuff. The image and name of the design, Wasted on Wine, didn’t fly with Hafen’s mom. He remembers the shirt he wanted but wasn’t allowed to purchase, a Beatnik beret-wearing ratrod with a goatee holding a bottle of wine. For sale on the back pages were t-shirts with Roth’s idiosyncratic cartoon designs. Like Roth, Hafen’s specialty is custom design. Hafen owns Charley Hafen Custom Jewelers and has known of the Big Daddy and his artwork since he was a boy. “I thought, ‘Whoa! That’s Ed Roth!’ when I saw him,” recalls the Salt Lake City jeweler.
Charley Hafen met the celebrated artist Ed “Big Daddy” Roth in 1996 when Roth was hawking his signed silkscreened drawings at a car show.
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