This was a group of artists that often employed a preponderance of industrial materials: resins, plastics, car paint and the like. The Orbitron is now on view at Kayne Griffin Corcoran as part of an exhibition devoted to exploring work by L.A. Just under the dash, it featured a full-blown color television - presumably so that the driver could stay up on all the telenovelas while sitting in rush-hour traffic. The interiors consisted of sky-blue shag (known colloquially as "monkey fur"). The car had an electric-blue asymmetrical body that sported a bubble-shaped roof. But few are as good as the one surrounding "The Orbitron," the space-age ride created in 1964 by California’s most renowned custom car builder, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Object Lesson: The "Big Daddy" Roth car that was lost, then foundĮvery car has a story.
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