"Stanley Mouse", began advertising his own shirts in the pages of Car Craft in January 1961. Inspired by Roth and Barris Kustoms (whose shirts were airbrushed by Dean Jeffries), Detroit native Stanley Miller, a.k.a. The article featured Roth along with fellow Kustom Kulture pioneers Dean Jeffries and Pete Millar. By the August 1959 issue of Car Craft "Weirdo shirts" had become a full-blown craze with Roth at the forefront of the movement. Roth began airbrushing and selling "Weirdo" T-shirts at car shows and in the pages of Car Craft magazine as early as July 1958. Roth is best known for his grotesque caricatures - typified by Rat Fink - depicting imaginary, out-sized monsters driving representations of the hot rods that he and his contemporaries built. We have been so proud to now have The Original Big Daddy Range what amazing guy Ed Roth a absolute Legend of the Hot Rod scene.
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