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Old 02-13-2018, 05:31 PM
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This was not a "Weird-Ohs" car.

The original Weird-Ohs were a series of models by Hawk Plastics.
They were cartooned cars and characters that appeared to steal from the Ed Roth Rat Fink style.
Although, by that time (mid 1960s), the Ed Roth style had permeated lots of kustom kulture!
Ed Roth had nothing to do with the Weird-Ohs designs as far as I know.

The Beatnik Bandit was a real custom car built in 1960, long before Weird-Ohs.
Ed Roth built it as a showpiece to attract attention at his T-shirt painting booth.
It was the first of many well known Roth cars and became a showcar icon.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...nik_Bandit.jpg

It was also one of the first "kustom kar" plastic models produced by Revell in 1961.
Again, long before Weird-Ohs.

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