They gave the remains to someone in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who gave them to a kid who may have tried to restore the Mysterion in his parents' basement but then had to get rid of it. In a lengthy, humorous account told in my book, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, His Life, Times, Cars and Art, custom builders Jack Walker and Doug Thompson were able to acquire the unwanted 'glass body from a custom shop in the Midwest in the '70s and seriously contemplated dumping the asymmetrical nose in the freeway median, lighting it on fire, and telling the cops it was part of a spaceship that fell out of the sky. We knew that the twin-engine, chrome-frame, bubbletop, Cyclops-nosed, and aptly named Mysterion had self-destructed from the weight of its two big-block Ford engines while being trucked from show to show, and little more than the front axle, wheels, and tires had been returned to Roth. We knew where Tweedy Pie was, but another well-known Roth machine-unquestionably his wildest of all-had been conspicuous by its absence for decades. Reportedly-predictably-an even bigger wad of money carted it to another new home after the show. I guess all it took to finally get it out of the garage was a big wad of money. Then bammo, there it was, looking like it did in 1962, on the floor at Cobo Hall in 2006. I knew where it was, but the owner would neither let me see nor photograph it. This car reappeared briefly in 1975, dressed in chrome trinkets by its new owners, then disappeared into an old wooden garage for the next 30 years. But it became a well-known, popular Roth-mobile when Rod & Custom splashed it on its cover as "Roth's New Rod!" in 1962, and Revell made a long-selling model kit of it.
This little purple T-bucket roadster, ironically, was neither built by him (he stripped it, named it, then bought it), nor fiberglass (as nearly all other T-buckets were), nor had a bubbletop. '06) in a special posthumous Roth tribute, we thought nearly all of his far-out, fiberglass, mostly bubbletopped creations had finally been accounted for, especially with the totally unexpected appearance of Tweedy Pie. And that's just the way Big Daddy would want it.Īs of two years ago, when the Detroit Autorama featured a gathering of some 17 Roth-mobiles (both four- and three-wheel varieties HRM Aug. Story is so Ed Roth, it's almost unbelievable.
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