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Johnny Ace
09-30-2003, 01:04 PM
Better off in classifieds,I know,but this is more of a reference call.....Anyone with some or all of the infamous '57 Roth WIERD-O-CALS,please gimme a holler....need either origs. or good scans for both book material and art project.....saw 'em before in the Newhouse Auto catalogs.....have eluded me ever since....I know IMPKO released some of 'em....any help will be greatly appreciated
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zonkola
09-30-2003, 02:06 PM
This is from a Newhouse ad on the back cover of a '57 Custom Rodder. Maybe someone that has the real deal will recognize them from this ad...

http://www.zonk.com/pub/wierd-o-cals.gif
Johnny Ace
09-30-2003, 02:19 PM
Yes sir! Those are the guys...and gal......Wish I could find out who did the art...maybe Kelly?
Big Thanks, Zonkola!
zonkola
09-30-2003, 02:22 PM
No problem! Turns out the same issue also had an ad from JC Whitney with a few more:

http://www.zonk.com/pub/wierd-o-cals2.jpg
k-member
09-30-2003, 02:24 PM
Jonny, a lot of the images above look resemblant of a pre Roth artist named and I dont know how to spell it but I will spell it like it sounds Boris Artsay Bashaoff. If you ever find his book it will blow you away. A freind of mine bought his book at a yard sale for a buck like 10 years ago and I have been looking for one ever since. Verry weird stuff dealing with man/machine morfs and issuse like alcohalism, vanity, ego ect... I think Roth and Dutch must have been familiar with Boris's work because there is a stong resemblence in there work...good luck.
Johnny Ace
09-30-2003, 02:45 PM
Right...Boris Artzybasheff (sp?)...Totally agree....It's no secret Roth's commissioned stuff was done by artists who were influenced by Wolverton,Jack Davis,Carl Barks,etc....before the drugs and Beatles showed up, guys like Robt.williams and Newt were still reading horror comics from the '50's,Mad Magazine,etc....
I understand these designs were in color...Man,it would be great to see 'em that way....Thanks again guys...
zonkola
09-30-2003, 03:06 PM
http://www.adh.brighton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/ADC/a23.gif

http://www.eisnermuseum.org/_artzybashoff/main.html
http://www.bpib.com/artzybas.htm
http://www.adh.brighton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/01/LIAArtzybasheff.html
k-member
10-01-2003, 05:48 AM
Yeah thats the ticket Zonk! I love that stuff.
Johnny Ace
10-01-2003, 12:05 PM
Mad Genius! I wonder if Von dutch was a fan of Boris? I see lots of common ground there.....
Any of you decal collectors have these laying around somewhere?
Johnny Ace
09-02-2004, 06:53 AM
Back from the Dead!
We are still looking for a few originals of these ...anyone got extras?
ESnacky6
09-02-2004, 07:44 PM
bttt http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
voodoo
09-02-2004, 09:35 PM
I don't have any decals but I do have the "Sounds of the Wierd-ohs" album. Does that count?
Johnny Ace
08-18-2005, 09:34 PM
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We are still looking for a few originals of these ...anyone got extras?[/QUOTE]


Since there are so many new members on here, maybe some decal collector out there has color scans of any of these Roth decals?
I've tried the usual routes with no luck.....need these for another book....
Anyone?
D Picasso
08-18-2005, 10:26 PM
Johnny,

here's a non-auto-related piece of Boris Artzybasheff's work, dated '29, cover for a Chicago columnist's collection of articles. neat, huh? found this in the bookpile, I've had it since '82 or so.
BoomBoom
08-20-2005, 11:32 AM
Man JA those bring back memories! I used to buy those at my local hobby shop back in the 60s . I had several on my Schwynn Speedster along with baseball cards clothspinned to my spokes to get that cool sound!
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Johnny Ace
08-20-2005, 12:03 PM
Man JA those bring back memories! I used to buy those at my local hobby shop back in the 60s . I had several on my Schwynn Speedster along with baseball cards clothspinned to my spokes to get that cool sound!
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Ed...man it's funny where you can spot Roth Studios stuff if you look close...

We were watching a flick called "The SideHackers" (aka Five the Hard Way)....
Two guys talking in their bike shop- behind them is a fridge covered in late '60's Roth decals......
"She Freak"...some kid walks by the camera in a carnival fairgrounds scene wearing a Roth "surf" plastic German helmet.....
There's plenty more,but you get the point.....
Oscar73
05-20-2006, 12:13 AM
Digging this thread up from the grave...

The Wierd-o-Cals sure look a lot like the stuff Dean Jefferies was doing with his striping. I know Jefferies did some of the Barris shirts, and I've got a couple decals that have his signature on 'em. One's a head-on drawing of a guy on a bike, and the other's a woodpecker knock-off with weedburners and slicks attached to the 'pecker.

It's all cool stuff.