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Since it was wartime, Roth made toy machine guns out of wood.
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Roth, now 67, says he learned about hard work from his father, a cabinetmaker who drilled his boys through chores, but also gave them their own tools and workshop to build whatever they wanted. "I keep telling these kids, 'Focus on making money, don't focus so much on making chords on the guitar,'" he continues. People have lost track of what's important, he says: "I have to laugh when I see these telescopes that cost millions of dollars to build, when aliens are cutting crop circles in England and nobody can do anything about them. "I tell you, I was brought up differently than these kids are today," says Roth, his philosophy a blend of Popular Mechanics and The X-Files.
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He'll bring two of the full-scale creations to the Auto-Rama show this week: the Druid Princess (a baroque carriage with a baby coffin for a trailer, commissioned for the Addams Family TV series) and a three-wheeler called the Megacycle. Kids who grew up in the 1960s and '70s know Roth's dragsters, too-his candy-apple-finished, mag-wheeled machines, sporting names like "Beatnik Bandit" and "Mother's Worry," were miniaturized by Revell toys. Rat Fink, a cross between a junkyard Muppet and an old drunk guy, is the most recognizable of the bunch, immortalized during the otherwise humorless hippie era on countless T-shirts worn by big, hairy men and twelve-year-old girls with braces. This morning, Roth's folding T-shirts for his mail-order business, a one-man operation centered around his cartoon creations-gleeful, pop-eyed monsters with rotten teeth, tooling down the highway in souped-up flivvers. Explains Big Daddy, who has more on his mind than nitro-burning funny cars: "That dog puts the cats' heads in his mouth, and they get mad and punch him in the nose." "Hey dawg, leave that kitty alone!" he hollers across his workshop. Hot rod king Ed "Big Daddy" Roth is ready to talk about what's wrong with the world.