Tales of the Rat Fink

Ron Mann's wildly inventive bio about Renais- sance man Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-twentieth century culture with his customized cars, "monster" T-shirts and America's alternative rodent - "Rat Fink". The subject of Tom Wolfe's essay "The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby",Ed Roth helped fuel the "Kustom Kulture" / Hot rod movement of the 1960s in Southern California. Hot Rodding grew from crude backyard engineering where performance was the bottom line into equally important.