I was there. Sometimes vulgarity is heroic, trashiness is epic, adolescence is eternal. Big Daddy was the synergism of all three. Warhol was a boring fraud. Big Daddy was the high-amperage king of pop anti-culture. In a thousand years, when the biologically engineered mutants who inherit the earth wanna know what it was like, back in the day, they will stand around a glass case enclosing one of Big Daddy's plastic hot-rod monsters, painted in sloppy enamels, and say "Now, I get it"....
And Big Daddy's monsters didn't just sit there with a bone in their teeth, they were manic. They had the forward momentum of wrecking balls. Hand on the shift, pedal on the floor, grinning like the gates of hell, running over granny and stray dogs with joyous, glorious insanity....
I built all of these kits when I was a kid. Loved them to death and even saw a few of the full size versions at the Detroit Auto Shows back in the day. The notorious Red Baron replete with its chrome-plated Nazi helmet and mounted machine guns was at one of the shows for all to admire.
I was there. Sometimes vulgarity is heroic, trashiness is epic, adolescence is eternal. Big Daddy was the synergism of all three. Warhol was a boring fraud. Big Daddy was the high-amperage king of pop anti-culture. In a thousand years, when the biologically engineered mutants who inherit the earth wanna know what it was like, back in the day, they will stand around a glass case enclosing one of Big Daddy's plastic hot-rod monsters, painted in sloppy enamels, and say "Now, I get it"....
And Big Daddy's monsters didn't just sit there with a bone in their teeth, they were manic. They had the forward momentum of wrecking balls. Hand on the shift, pedal on the floor, grinning like the gates of hell, running over granny and stray dogs with joyous, glorious insanity....
JDA
I built all of these kits when I was a kid. Loved them to death and even saw a few of the full size versions at the Detroit Auto Shows back in the day. The notorious Red Baron replete with its chrome-plated Nazi helmet and mounted machine guns was at one of the shows for all to admire.
Many of Ed Roth's creations were featured on Bad Chad's YouTube channel a month or two ago when they visited the Car Kings garage.