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Article: Rebel with a pause Hot-rod legend returns to his wheeled obsessions
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 21, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright 1997 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Dig this, gearheads: Big Daddy is building his last sled.
That's right. Ed Roth, the beatnik wild child whose mad-genius
car creations and fantastic artwork shaped the Southern California
hot-rod culture of the '50s and '60s, is heading pedal-to-the-metal
into matrimony.
Roth's seemingly unlikely slide into semi-retired domesticity
actually began in 1974 when he converted to the Mormon Church and
abandoned his lawless lifestyle.
But Roth remains a man with a toolbox full of contradictions.
Evidence of a struggle to reconcile a notorious past with a homespun
present is strewn about his cluttered pink stucco home in this tiny
farming community 100 miles south of Salt Lake City.
"My fanaticism ...