History The Great Disneyland Cover Up of 1959...

This all started when I was at Paso Robles staring at Von Franco's Golden Rod clone. The Ray Anderegg car remade down to a "T", including the unusual dash plaque with something about a 1959 Disneyla... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.

 

Ha!

Norm would never do anything like that

Rich

 

no info on disneyland, but that T has been a long time fav... more pictures?

 

I think it's really odd that you would ask ME if I was there because I absolutely was not there and there's no way you can prove that I was because I wasn't there so why would you ask ME if I was there? I just think it's odd, that's all. I'm just saying...

 

I'm going to see Sir Norm tomorrow. I'll ask.

 

Maybe Rat Fink screwed Minnie Mouse,and when word got around it came to blows and Mickey got his lights punched out !

Rowdy gearheads trash Disneyland,that's so kool I hope it's true
Paul

 

The HCCA used to do a tour through Disneyland regularly. Somtime in the 60's a steamcar blew up (a passerby threw a cigarette in the car, and it ignited some fume. Steam cars have boilers and gas and fires) and cooked some of its occupants alive. Disneyland promptly ceased having tours through its park. Last year, the HCCA did a tour through there for the first time since that incident.

 

Quick internet research shows that 1959 was the opening year for Disneyland??? It seems like disney fans also link the Hot Rod hobby to Disneyland by saying that in 1959 Disneyland opened, Ed Roth, living nearby, disliked all the cutsie Mickey Mouse advertising... and so created Rat Fink as a foil to Mickey... seems interesting, but not sure how accurate it is...

 

Wow, that's amazing....if it's true.

 

Disneyland opened in 1955

 

There was magazine coverage of the show in at least one issue of one of the small East Coast magazines from the late '50s or very early '60s, I believe it was Rodding & Restyling. The show was called "Car Club Day." The article shows the displays and quite a few magazine feature customs and rods in attendance. I'm on the road headed to Lead East and will be gone about a month, but if no one has found the article by the time I get back, I'll scan it in and post it here.

 

This might be urban legend. That Roth said Rat Fink was mickey on ACID. One more thing Mickey Mouse is a rat. A very rich Rat!!!! There was anther cartoon show Mickey look like doing drugs and fornicating.

 

Nope, Disneyland opened in 1955. How do i know? I'm looking at a picture of Walt with my dad who was one of the musicians playing at the grand opening and it is dated 1955!

 

haha... must have misread the pages then...

 

Can't fully trust Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Fink

 

I know that Dick Kraft and Marvin Webb (who together built 'the bug') both worked at Disneyland. I believe they were both heads of Maintence departments, but not positive about that. They may have had some influence in getting a show started.

 

Re: Ratfink origins.

According to the Kustom Kulture show at Laguna Beach years back, Ratfink was first incarnated on a refrigerator door in magic markers on Xmas Day, 1961. This makes me one day older than Ratfink.
Another version has him showing up for the first time on a napkin in 1959 ( I think).

Either was too early for acid (lsd). He probably took that later.

FWIW,

Joe

 

Might have had something to do with Bob Gurr, I keep finding out cool design things that guy was involved with. He was a top designer there, did the firetrucks, the Autopia cars, etc.

 

The Fink wasn't around yet. But I did hear about a thing involving "sin"derela and some dwarfs. Nuthin' to do with cars but it was interesting.

 

I don't know shit about Mickey Mouse but a good friend owns the original Anderegg T.

Wish he would restore it.

JH

 

Mickey has been with Minnie for over 50 year and has not knock her up. Everytime you see Mickey he is hanging out with Goofie. I am saying Mickey is a very Gay mouse/rat. Ratfine would had Minnie knuck up and have about 3 baby rats. Minnie would be smoking Lucky strikes and work in strip bar.

 

Maybe thats where the term &#8220;rat-rod&#8221; comes from, just saying...

 

I heard that there was a gang running a counterfit money operation out of disney....

 

a couple of the designers there were big car nuts.

 

there's a disney convention next week in anaheim with all kinds of memorabilia that i was trying to avoid taking my wife to, but now i might be able to turn it into a fact finding mission.

perhaps the picture of the plaque will trigger a memory or two....

doubt anyone that might know would be in the house that day, but you never know...

 

Jay (Jive-Bomber) ...

So when will be hosting their "FIRST ANNUAL CAR CLUB DAY AND AUTOCADE"? ... I'd be more than happy to do some burn-outs in the Emeryville Campus parking lot ... and you wouldn't even have to get me drunk!

 

being a long time disney passport holder this is interesting to me. So I signed up on some "MICKEY MOUSE" forum to gain info. Heres the thread lets see what happens?
http://disboards.com/showthread.php?p=33430758#post33430758

 

I have a friend that works in Security at the Mouse House and my sister in law has worked there for 35+ years. I have asked both to ask around with some of the old timers and also do some archives snooping. Who knows ........

 

HERES A SONG ABOUT ACID AND DISNEYLAND WHILE WERE WAITIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdlT5yMJWXk

 

I love this kinda stuff...