Ed Roth never gave much thought to his lost career in retail, he was doing just fine.Ī year later, Ed entered his first, fiberglass Kustom car “The Outlaw,” in competition, Roth’s revolutionary use of fiberglass made the car a sensation, in hot rod circles from coast to coast. His Rat Fink character has become an American Icon, his over the top, “gee, this will really shake up the folks” tee-shirts became a national craze. In 1958, Ed Roth began selling “weirdo” tee shirts from the back pages of Car Craft magazine. He painted and pin striped cars, adding his own unique touch and through car shows, began air brushing tee shirts. Earning $4.00 per pin striping job and with all the work he could handle, Ed Roth said good bye, to his dollar an hour job at Sears & Roebucks and for the rest of his life he did what he wanted. Through the original auto paint striper Von Dutch, Ed Roth began to do paint striping and custom car painting.

By 1955, his enlistment up, Roth now had a wife and five children in tow.

Ed finished high school and was off to college and after a year, he left school for the Air force. He grew up on the edge of Los Angeles, in the center of the hot-rod craze of the late 1940’s. They were automobiles as Roth saw them, no differently, than Van Gogh saw Sunflowers or Monet saw water lilies. He changed the way we thought about cars, through his art. Where Harley Earl took factory cars and styled them, Ed Roth made his cars art. He graduated in 1949, taking those two talents and combining them to create something completely new. But what about the geniuses born in the 20th century?Įd Roth once said, the only two classes he passed in high school were Auto Shop and Art. Guys born before Grandpa met Grandma and they were all geniuses' la, la, la. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.Okay, so far this blog has been filled with 19th century stuff shirts.

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