Event Coverage Ed Roth "bubble car" another one ?

A signature on a loose piece of metal is an autograph, that's all. Cool project for someone, though.

 

Good recall Jeff, forgot about the 'steam car' and the prerunner to the Kolob trike.
Globehopper is as Galpin/GAS and looks very diffrent to this shell.

 

Only thing that might be Roth related is maybe that is where he got the bubbletops from?

anyways is there any hambers going to this auction? I was thinking about a road trip but such short notice and what is going on here at the present time I better not. I hope some hambers show up and get us more details and more pictures.

 

ok, I just relooked at the pictures again and they added some more pictures and added captions to them. Under the car they have Roth styled car and under the bubbletop as an original Ed Roth bubbletop.

 

Porsche racing motor?

Looks like there's a replica 904 in there.

 

Grabbed this from the net. I thought that might be a Globehopper body (copy) too at first, until I noticed the gas door and trunk in the auction body, then the proportions seemed off...
I think it's a Prowler go kart body instead...

 

hope so.....thanks for the interests....Mr Roth was not real traditional back in the day.....bought a model the other day....should post that.....go go go.....

 

hopefully Stillrunner or some other hamber made it there today to let us know some more details and price tags.

as I relook at it, was this an auction or are they just having price tags on some of the items with open end offers being accepted on what they think are the bigger ticket items? after rereading and relooking at it , I got myself really confused on which format this is being run as.

 

Things that people wanta know...........
I was told there are reserves on some of the things, like the trike and the bubble car. I was told by the son that there is a Roth signature on the back side of the Trikes lic, plate mount for whatever that's worth. The original bubble was cracked and the guy had another one made along with havin a half bubble made also. I had thought bout going since its local, but didn't want ta take a day off work and already have way to much and too may projects.
Stay Tuned

 

the purple-ish body looks like The Globe hopper, but with rear fenders.

 

Roth's wife also had her lawyer sue Ed for selling the cars too cheap. (this was a 'retro-suit', after the values had been said to go 'sky-high', 20-30 years after)
Mrs. R.F. wanted her 'fair share' of every trike kit, etc., ever sold.
Does she still have that same attorney?

 

@RodStRace I think you called it.

 

No go here....I'm in Dallas.....holding my vacation to deal with my uncle's estate.....not going to be easy one....

 

The bubble car did not sell, nor did the trike. We talked today about the trike and I was told that there is some kind of verification under the seat to support that its a Roth trike. He's gonna take a pic of it and then we'll see.

 

This is up for sale on EvilBay again.
Asked the seller if he could provide proof of the Ed Roth 'connection' and he claims that Ed had signed it "while it was in sheet-metal'" but couldn't find a picture of it.

Don't recall Ed making too many of his vehicles in 'sheet-metal' but I could be wrong!

 

No record in the literature of Ed ever making a metal car. In f ct there are recorded statements from him saying he had no time to learn metal skills and never wanted to.

 

Wow! Those are bad welds! why in the world wouldn't they clean those up before painting the frame

 

Wow! You guys are so mean, those are some lovely welds

 

Yet another chancer!
Just because it's in the same book as a Roth article, does not make it an Ed Roth car!!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1955-Other...811014?hash=item3fd7b39846:g:7DoAAOSw9tFeHJ7b

 

Mark, P.T. Barnum once said "There's a sucker born every minute"
With news like this
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/us/us-birthrate-decrease.html
U.S. Birthrate Drops 4th Year in a Row
"There were an estimated 3,788,235 people born in the United States last year" (2018)
maybe the seller figured it better be listed FAST!
Remember, a lot of people bought Von Dutch t shirts without even knowing who that was...

 

The car Colin HD posted has documentation posted in the listing that show the name of the builder and it isn't Roth, I'm not even sure if the seller knows that "Big Daddy Roth" is a person. The description is almost non-existent, and I'd bet it was written by someone having some random thoughts dictated to them.

Shame, the period pics of the car are kinda/sorta neat, and I'd love to rebuild an old custom sports car like this, but I could never justify that price.

 

Back up on eVilBay and now apparently:
"Ed Roth was heavily involved in the project. He helped in the designing of the Hot Rod as well as the bodywork. Ed Roth painted the car a metallic pink"

Not calling anyone a fibber, as unfortunately I wasn't there to prove or disprove, but I have my thoughts!!!