Folks Of Interest Lecture by Big Daddy Ed Roth!!!!!

I stumbled on this video at the Car Model Builder's Museum web site. It will blow your mind, guaranteed. Ignore the poor video quality, it is amazing.

https://archive.org/details/gsl-vii

 

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Me too! I can't get it to load again either. Stay tuned, I'll get it to work. I MUST!!!!!!!

 

The entire archive dot org site is down. I read a while back they were having legal problems hosting stuff others held copyright on.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11945533/...-could-change-the-future-of-digital-libraries

 

BTW, visited the Martin auto museum last week and saw Roth's last full size car there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Auto_Museum

 

Played for me. I was there, with some models I built. I sat and listened to Ed talk. I haven't watched the whole video yet, so not sure if any of my models are shown. Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it was a model show in Santa Clara CA. Ed talked at one of the model shows I was at. He was a cool dude to talk to. I went to the GSL in Salt lake many times.

 

I just tried the link this morning and it loaded!! Try it QUICK.

 

You find that Ed started building his masterpieces just to learn how fiberglass worked! We can thank then 17 yr old Jim Keeler, just hired by Revell as project manager or something like that, for finding Ed in his garage, seeing the brilliance in the Outlaw and in-progress Beatnik Bandit, and talking Revell into producing the kits.

 

Thanks, watching it now.

 

Thanks for posting. Ed cleans up very well! haha. Seriously I really enjoyed this on many levels.

 

Thanks for posting that historical video.

 

Thanks for the link! An all new video to me.


Posted this video from the '70s PBS series "The Great American Dream Machine" last year with some decent footage of "Big Daddy" and some of his creations in the wild!

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/ed-roth-video-the-great-american-hero.1282071/