Rat Fink Art

[commando1]

If you weren't there at the time, you will never be cool.

Time for some Rat Fink appreciation.
Does anybody have any original Rat Fink memorabilia?

 

[bluefury361]

If you weren't there at the time, you will never be cool.

Time for some Rat Fink appreciation.
Does anybody have any original Rat Fink memorabilia?

Here's my little buddy..................

 

[commando1]

I knew it!!!! Lmao.
But of course...

 

[68blackbird]

If you weren't there at the time, you will never be cool.

Time for some Rat Fink appreciation.
Does anybody have any original Rat Fink memorabilia?

No, but now that you brought it up, on the need to get list...very cool.

 

[amazinblue82]

i'm old enough to know what the "Rat Fink" was, and know the name Ed Roth. recalling a Rat Fink model of some sort?

stickers I put on my bicycle, lunchbox, etc. too. the Rat Fink scared my youngest sister so she left my stuff alone . but I always dug the art (mid-1960's) long before i truly understood what a "Hemi" really was (early-mid 1970's).

as this thread progresses it'll all start coming back to me I'm sure.

 

[commando1]

Unfortunately too many young'ns here more interested in the lesser arts.

The Rat Fink was a culture, not just a cartoon. An era sorely missed.

 

[Xenon]

And sadly much of that of that era is fading away...

 

[commando1]

Good. I saw it at it's peak when my raging hormones were out of control. Got memories that people even 15 years younger just can't understand. You have to remember, by 1973 it was gone! I mean gone. 175hp engines and a ton of stick-on cladding and decals.

 

[amazinblue82]

Unfortunately too many young'ns here more interested in the lesser arts.

The Rat Fink was a culture, not just a cartoon. An era sorely missed.

I think I am about 5-8 years too young to have understood..back then..what the "Rat Fink culture" was. I just thought the art was cool.

Much the same way...i recall my folks liked watching "Dobie Gillis" and they especially liked the Maynard Krebs character. The "beatnik" .. heck I just liked how Bob Denver's antics playing the character made my folks laugh. I had no idea what a "beatnik" was and positively zero about what the whole beatnik culture was.

Late sixties I was still a bit too young to know what a "hippie" was..beyond the people my Dad yelled at (he was 35 in 1968) for their "long hair and free love". The "Movement" was about more than that of course but I only learned that from documentaries and such much later.

Anyway, still like the Rat Fink art ;)

http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/138/

 

[1978 NYB]

Ed Roth had a cool vision and a wild imagination that will never be equaled.

 

[Big_John]

I have a Rat Fink light switch cover.



I also have a Rat Fink tee shirt that I bought from Ed Roth himself. I talked to Ed for a bit and he was just as cool as you would hope he would be.

 

[Zymurgy]

I had a T-shirt back when I was kid. I bought it at the fair with my own money. It was in my closet for years because I outgrew it. It was too cool to throw out, but I think my mom eventually pitched it.

 

[commando1]

My Rat Fink stuff is all gone, too. Like anything, Who knew? A line that's been used since Adam & Eve.

 

[CanCritter]

just memories

 

[Wollfen]

Everything fades eventually, nothing is preserved.

 

[bluefury361]

Big Daddy Ed Roth.... AKA..... Mr Gasser and the Wierdo's.
Any one remember the "hot rod hootenanny"...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iasnaOXE-k

 

[mcmlvii]

I've got a small stack of old Odd Rod stickers collecting dust upstairs. Does that count?

 

[bluefury361]

And who could forget...........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4mNagP5CgA

 

[Fury Rookie]

Hi Guys
Back in the late 80's my wife and I had a t-shirt trailer we used to follow the cars show circuit on the east coast. Our major line was the Rat fink. We carried them in black and white and my wife would air brush them. Several times over those few years we brought Ed into some shows with us. Just recently I have been selling off a lot of the stuff on EBay. At this point I am down to about 25 or so vinyl,Rat Fink stickers left and that is about it except for some small pocket size transfers for shirts. We had some great times back then . Ed was a really good guy but Very Eccentric. Lol. Damn. I even had hair

 

[C Body Bob]

Always was a fan of Rat Fink !