Houston 20 Dec 2004 - Ratfink- in the flesh.. + Fiat 850

[RC45]

Look who we ran into today... No doubt some of you will hgave no idea who "Big Daddy" Roth or Ratfink are... but those of in the know.. know... ;) :P hehe :lol:

[Edit : looks like Imageshack is having issues at the moment - check back later I guess.]

Rat Fink is really just a big softy...
http://img142.exs.cx/img142/5277/himscary3uk.th.jpg (http://img142.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img142&image=himscary3uk.jpg) http://img142.exs.cx/img142/5940/ratfinkpatty8zp.th.jpg (http://img142.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img142&image=ratfinkpatty8zp.jpg) http://img142.exs.cx/img142/360/yesyou7kc.th.jpg (http://img142.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img142&image=yesyou7kc.jpg)

The Offy powered T-Bucket is an awesome piece of HotRod art...
http://img134.exs.cx/img134/5418/rfink55yt.th.jpg (http://img134.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img134&image=rfink55yt.jpg) http://img134.exs.cx/img134/576/rfink48fk.th.jpg (http://img134.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img134&image=rfink48fk.jpg) http://img134.exs.cx/img134/5865/rfink35an.th.jpg (http://img134.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img134&image=rfink35an.jpg) http://img134.exs.cx/img134/5794/rfink23aq.th.jpg (http://img134.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img134&image=rfink23aq.jpg) http://img134.exs.cx/img134/6346/rfink13se.th.jpg (http://img134.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img134&image=rfink13se.jpg)


The Fiat 850 almost got sucked up my tail-pipe... :lol:...
http://img137.exs.cx/img137/6324/fiat85010pp.th.jpg (http://img137.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img137&image=fiat85010pp.jpg) http://img137.exs.cx/img137/4655/fiat8501xk.th.jpg (http://img137.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img137&image=fiat8501xk.jpg)

[ZfrkS62]

i love the ratfink cartoons :D was this at a carshow? hopefully imageshack gets it fixed quickly so we can see whatelse you came across :wink:

[sameerrao]

Hate to be the anorak here - but nice to see an old Indy engine make Offenhauser again.

Patty looks as cute as ever :)

[RC45]

Hate to be the anorak here - but nice to see an old Indy engine make Offenhauser again.

Patty looks as cute as ever :)

I have a bunch more pics of the Offy... but the Imageshack upload page is acting up...

http://img148.exs.cx/img148/8331/flatty12ux.th.jpg (http://img148.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img148&image=flatty12ux.jpg)

[possessed_beaver]

umm nice big rat i guess...
lol!

[666fast]

umm nice big rat i guess...
lol!

Search google for Ratfink or Big Daddy Roth and you'll find all the info you could imagine. He's a hotrod legend here.
Some of his cars were on the awesome side of holy crap.