Ed Roth Trike Body

Vintage ed roth trike body.

Ed roth trike body.

Payment due within 24 hours. Ed only built a couple of these v8 trikes because he loved the vw trikes and spent much more time with them. Dennis roth used a rubber ducky body for his lil newt trike featured at sema 2004. It was assembled at one time and has california vintage plate last reg in 1980.

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We are all inspired by the one man who started this trend ed big daddy roth. However according to pat ganahl s book on the rat fink roth made molds of his various trike bodies and sold the repop bodies as kits or complete trikes in the late 1960s and early 1970s so especially given the stated year wheeler. I don t know ed might have been just messin around when he designed the thing. Body is in good condition with no cracks or issues.

Asphalt angle california cruiser. Ed big daddy roth is a legend in the hot rod and rock art community thanks to his creations like rat fink. Engine 1835 with less than 100 miles trans 4 speed has handle bars turn signal led lites springer front end seats two people new speedometer new starter front tire wheelie bars remote oil cooler with electric fan with brake and clutch pedals 2500 obo cash only no trades. This vehicle got like no press what so ever.

We were using the asphalt angel body that was first designed and fabricated by ed big daddy roth. Oct 12 2013 explore k osburn s board ed roth trike on pinterest. The leader of the industry. Ed roth cobra kit trike jeff lavery this wild looking trike is actually a nos build of sorts as the seller notes it is one of a handful of molds that legendary builder ed big daddy roth made available to the buying public after building his own v8 powered trike.

Was found and located in san bernardino ca. Did ed roth build the first hybrid. Roth liked to use a bordeau sp front end where yours has a springer also the footpeg mount would have the word. After he seen what we were doing with his body asphalt angel we had his blessing even having us build frames for his clients.

While his focus was on building cars he did have a phase where he focused on trikes the american beetle was one of those creations with a 36 horsepower engine from a vw beetle and the front fork from a honda motorcycle. Purple w sparkle paint vw trike with big daddy ed roth 70 s high flyer fiberglass body. Roth started building vw trikes in about 69. He usually buried business card in the glass you can see it on the inside of the body.