Built six decades ago by the one-and-only Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, the Orbitron is a priceless work of custom car art that has been found and restored after seemingly vanishing for decades. Born in ...

This story is so Ed Roth, it's almost unbelievable. And that's just the way Big Daddy would want it. We knew where Tweedy Pie was, but another well-known Roth machine-unquestionably his wildest of all ...

"Big Daddy" Ed Roth was a principal founding member of what became known as the Kustom Kulture car cult during the 1960s in Southern California. Roth, one of the pioneers of modifying cars as rolling ...

Ed Roth seemed to care little about his show cars after he was done with them, to the extent he once told me he wanted to cut one into little pieces to sell as key chains. He dismissed the Orbitron, ...

Ed “Big Daddy” Roth built some of the most fantastic custom cars of all time — the Outlaw, the Beatnik Bandit, the Mysterion — and most of those cars are in expensive museum pieces today. But the ...

Every car has a story. But few are as good as the one surrounding “The Orbitron,” the space-age ride created in 1964 by California’s most renowned custom car builder, Ed “Big Daddy” Roth. The car had ...