Henry Roth, Ed's father, was very strict with the two boys. Henry kept the boys out of trouble by furnishing them with there own tools and a workshop. Ed's father was a cabinet maker and it was in his workshop where Ed learned to make some wild things out of wood.

Ed began driving when he was only twelve years old. In 1946, shortly after World War II, Ed purchased his first car. That car was a 1933 Ford coupe. Ed graduated high school in 1949 and went on to college to major in engineering in order to advance his knowledge of automobile design. Ed did well in college but grew bored with his engineering and physics classes because they simple had nothing to do with cars.

In 1951 at the age of nineteen Ed joined the Air Force. In Denver Colorado Ed attended Bomb Site school where Ed learned man

Ed's first car made with his new technique was "The Outlaw" (pictured here). Ed had plenty of imagination. Ed Roth became Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, a sort of Hot Rod Dr. Frankenstein. Ed was more of an artist than a mechanic. Ed's cars were more like sculptures. These creations were not meant to be driven. Ed's art was meant to be shown off and appreciated by the custom car culture he loved so very much. Ed showed the sceptics that you don't need a team of design engineers and an assembly line all you need is a creative imagination and plenty of honest hard work.

Ed's most famous monster was "Rat Fink". "Rat Fink" was a drawing of an atrocious rat that Ed displayed on his refrigerator. Ed Roth was an absolute genius when it came to cars but "Rat Fink" is what brought him the most fame. In and around 1963 teenagers across America were buying official "Rat Fink" model kits and wearing mass produced Shirts with the image of Ed's gruesome "Rat Fink".

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