Slightly Off Topic...Ed Roth Commerical?

I found this and thought it was interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVXuwkH5YB8

Was it really an Ed Roth ad?

 

Interesting

 

I posed that the other day...where were you???hhahahaha

I still have some Tees for you...But I need your size..I didn't forget..

Are you going to the Pile Up?

Hugs and Kisses..

 

Well, we know that Roth sold these plastic helmets. The end of the commercial was purposely cut off. I wish we could see the sign-off.

Admittedly, to my eyes today, seeing 13-year-old kids wearing "plastic Nazi helmets" strikes me as uncomfortable at best.

Kooky.

 

I'd like to know if it is real too.

 

I know Bad Bob is still wearing his today.

 

Veeeeeery interesting.........and scary too!! (In my best Artie Shaw voice)

(guess ya gotta remember Laugh-In for the full effect)

 

im so smart.

This is not a commercial, but a really weird parody film shot of the 1966(?) Los Angeles Teen Fair, as chronicled by Tom Wolfe. This film clip is from "You Are What You Eat" an underground film from Los Angeles.

 

Well, there ya go! Caffeine saves the day! As disturbing as the helmets may be...they still offend me ALOT less than the baggy-sagging pants and crooked ball caps. They look cool when they're 'flaked and striped, too!

 

You read that in the comments too huh?

 

I wlaways forget to scroll down for the "comments" section. sheesh.

 

Well, thank GOD, it struck me as a little TOO creepy for your standard ad spot. I'd like to see the rest of the film though....

 

german helmets make the best aircleaners, btw I know a new guy on the board here that has a mold for the Roth helmets.......pussies

 

Yep,still have it. 39 years old now! Hate that picture Dreadman!

 

I want one.......those rule.

 

me two

 

now it would be offensive if it had the SS or ******** on it...our soldiers brought back nazi helmets as trophies back in WW2...the helmets are cool as hell but what freaked me out was the blonde headed kid wearing the German officers hat with the ss and ******** on it...


I have the moto helmet and put the 3 inch spike in it...my wife gets pissed when i wear it..hell i might even stripe a iron cross on it for good measure!

I would like to get a couple of these from a mold tho...

 

It's a put on but it pushes the envelope. The 60s were sometimes fun and weird. However I never saw anyone wearing these back then. You would have been considered an ***hole provocatuer and plenty of people would have happily challenged you.

As Artie Johnson said: "Very interesting... but stupid."

 

Hell when I was a kid back in the '60's I had one with a Yellow submarine decal on it.It really didn't mean ****,just something for a kid to wear that his parents didn't like.But here we are 40 years later and everything has got to be politically correct.Dave

 

My dad was German............I brought one of those home one day, he nearly knocked my head off. Didn't mean **** to me at the time. I guess I didn't understand because he would never talk about the war

 

I hear that! I had one, painted purple metalflake from a can with baby blue surfer crosses on the sides. I never caught any serious ****; people just thought I was a weird 13-year-old. I wish I knew where that thing went...

 

This is the same film that has Von Dutch pinstriping a girl's back, damn it Rob, you know everything.

I have one of those helmets, it has SS bolts on one side and a ******** on the other, I bought it years ago at a swap meet for $2.00, I've never worn it whilst riding my bike, I should though, it would probably piss off everyone.

The film is funny, it's got black and Asian Nazis in it, if everyone's a Nazi then no one's a Nazi.

 

django has one. he used to wear it on stage when we played "miserlou"

 

I have a kid's sized one I got at a rummage sale a looooong time ago.It's gray pliable plastic with a plastic strap.Never saw one in stores.No liner or anything inside.Never came up against any when we used to play army. -Strat.

 

That's heavy dude, you say some deep **** sometimes

 

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Damn man - you beat me to the "cut and paste" genius level. Now g oonto the Lightning Round and win BIG!!!

 

When Big Daddy gave me mine,he had stacks of them in his booth with the t-shirts,beach towels,stickers,and key chains. They were all chrome though. Many of my friends had them. We rode around on our Stingrays with them on. It's been in my closet for years,until Darryl Roth told me I should have it striped. Many people have tried to buy it from me,especially at the Rat Fink Reunions. Even more now that it was on my head in the magazine. Maybe i'll wear it to the Luaua.

 

Wrong to wear? Hey, that is why a lot of adults (?) and kids do what they do - just to piss off others. Glad no one on here is like that. In the 60's lots of bikers wore Nazi SS stuff. If you did not like it they would just kick the **** out of you. Search TIME Magazine Friday,April 22,1966 "The Surfer's Iron Cross"

 

I read an editorial awhile back in a mag, forget which one it was, anyhow, the point was that we beat the living **** out of the Nazi's, and we took that Iron Cross from them and made it our own. I kinda like that mindset myself...