Rat Fink Reunion 2018

The best ever Rat fink Reunion!! Check out the 2018 Rat Fink Reunion.
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We are off to Manti Utah for the annual gathering of the tribes of the followers of the worlds best known (loved?) RAT. Rat Fink was the alter ego and side kick of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who had an infamous paint shop in Los Angeles after the "Big War". Together with "The Barron" "Kelly" "Von Dutch" and an 8 year old kid, "Magoo" Ed and Co chopped, channeled, stripped, air brushed and flamed the great hot rods of the 50's and 60's. Later making "monster" tee shirts and plastic models, Ed became a legend. Gone now, his sprit lives on in the form of a pudgy bug eyed 3 foot tall rat!!

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

My first introduction to the Rat Fink, was way back in 1968, when a classmate was drawing this grotesque rat-like creature on a piece of art paper. I had to inquire! I was filled in on all of the details.. and discovered the real meaning behind the Rat Fink character. Not everyone gets it. However... I did.. right away. Rat Fink was born into a culture of "Make do, or do without".... and... "One person's junk, is another person's treasure".... and he is perfectly fine with that! Rat Fink is just fine in his own environment.. He NOT preoccupied with appearance... He has learned to function alone.. as well as in a crowd, but prefers to doing his "own thing". If friends want to join.. they can... if they want. Rat Fink has the ability to entertain himself by working on "projects", which is making something for himself out of stuff that others have discarded. His goal is to shape the discarded items into something not only useful, but one-of-a-kind. Transportation is important! Why buy new, when you can create your own! The junkyard is a treasureland of items! Everything is there! So Rat Fink created his own transportation! He keeps busy.. and he enjoys what he does! He keeps busy creating.. making the unusual into transportation! He has a ball driving around... shifting gears! If it doesn't work... Back to the drawing board! Never a dull moment!! Today... Rat Fink Artists celebrate the culture that Ed Roth created, when he came up with this lovable green cartoon character.. and the world which Rat Fink referenced. We call this, "Creativity" and "Art". It's a world where folks can immerse themselves, and shut out the world around them for a little while. Anything is an artist's canvas! May the Spirit of Rat Fink, and his creator, Big Daddy (Ed) Roth, live on forever! May Trixy Roth and family, carry this tradition onward!!

[@ronhatch6853]

Thanks for going to these fun things that we can’t make it to. Next fun thing will be the N scale convention in Salt Lake. Hope to see you there.

[@ToyManTelevision]

We are hoping to be at all the layouts!! Can't be done, but we will try!

[@Mike-tg7dj]

The screens are the collectibles. I can remember doing silk screening in high school back in the mid 1970s. Fun, fun, fun!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Really!! Been asking Ilien to pull 100 shirts off of each screen. Number them and sell on the web site.

[@azmike1]

I remember last year too! Been watching. Rat Fink plastic models were my favorite. Built many back in the early 60's.

[@ToyManTelevision]

One of my favorite models ever.

[@chaosdemonwolf1]

I remember those guys from the early 60's. Oops, I just gave away how old I am

[@ToyManTelevision]

Ed's shirts were on "Leave it to Bever" BOY I'll bet that helped sales. The whole show was on weather it was OK for kids to wear "those" shirts.

[@rickzinck9326]

Thanks for the very good coverage of the Rat Fink Reunion. Now I have to put something else on the bucket list. Thanks guys. LOL

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

Attending one of these Rat Fink Reunions is a blast!! Lots of different cars each year!

[@ritaloy8338]

What a great gathering of people doing what they do best of making memories of screwing around. Well done again the both of you in your efforts of documenting your efforts of Screwing Around. That had to be a blast with all that great Screwing Around. Again thank you for allowing me to some of my cool Screwing Around watching your Screwing Around 😸 😂 🤗

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

Hey! It's soooo much fun, too! We fit right in with the Rat Fink line of thinking! Just set out to have fun! Thanks!! :D :D

[@coolrides]

That really is quite a show! Lots of interesting Rat Fink collectibles too! Thanks for including the Henry J...it's a little different from the one our family had! I wouldn't have been embarrassed driving the one at the show! :D Jack

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

We keep seeing that Henry J at every car show.. Even at Hot August Nights in Reno Nevada! Dale and I were eating supper, offered at the Reunion, when a couple joins us at the table. We are having a real nice visit.. when we discover that they are the owners of that Henry J!! It was so cool to meet them! What a car!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Henery J is fine but I’ve always been a Henery F guy!! My 3rd “car” was a 27 Model T pickup. Dumped that piece of crap 29 Buick to get it. Buick had a cone clutch and at 14 I had a problem with it. Was planning to take it to the DMV to take my drivers test if I ever hit 16!! Anyway sold it for 500 and bagged the T. Much more fun. So after I got a drivers license I bagged a 67 Mustang GT 289. White with green blue inside. Perhaps my most favorite car. And I’ve had a few. Missed it after I sold it (idiot) so I bagged the blue one. That calmed the disturbance in The Force.

[@cobyporschifer221]

This is the most Adorable couple. That's Awesome to meet thru Hot Rods N Rat Fink ! KEEP PLOWN 🤙🏼

[@ToyManTelevision]

Gee thanks!! We do love the rat Fink reunion! Well that’s where we met so there’s that too!

[@fanatichighdesertrailroader]

Looks like you guys had a blast at this. Good work .

[@ToyManTelevision]

That we did!

[@drgw489productions]

I always try and catch the rat fink reunions but I missed this one, thanks for making the video so I didn’t miss everything

[@duck1946]

I am a UK subscriber and really enjoy your videos,i wish i could have been there,some superb looking vehicles, and yes i am old enough to remember when Rat Fink first appeard !Still cool! Keep up the good work and all of the best to you both.

[@ToyManTelevision]

We do love the Rat. After growing up with Rat Fink, Karyn and I were amazed to suddenly be part of the Rat Fink family. When Ed married Ilean (Karyn's friend) suddenly there was this huge man, Ed Roth. Just there in the area. Hard to imagine. We both had an image of Ed, which was so far off, to meet him, the reaction was, no, just has the same name. Can't be THAT Ed Roth. Took a bit of time to get over him not being the person we thought he must be. We figure if Ed had not married Ilean, Karin and I would never have met as well, so we always say we were brought together by Rat Fink.

[@greguzar8233]

"Over the Top". You guys did your best chapter yet, right here. To quote that wise guy I have grown to know through electric media, "Brilliant!" (never mind the 'Brits' coined it.) Carry on your, "most excellent" pursuit of "Screwing Around". Greg and Jeanne.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!!! What a car show. Now we are figuring out where we want to shoot the Big Boy from when it comes through. Make a scouting - beer run to Wyoming.

[@LANDSEAAIRCANADA]

TMT has done it again Another fine and exceptional episode a mighty special one at that Thank you for excellent commentary and all the cool videos Cheers ! and Long may you run p.s. had to return to correct spelling mistakes oops !

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!!! Do share!!

[@craft-o-matic2377]

I always loved the T shirts, and I still don't have one! I guess I need to get on that! Love watching your videos! Take care you two! Keep 'em coming!!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

I bugged Ed for years to paint me one with my tow truck and Rat Fink. Never happened....

[@craft-o-matic2377]

Extreme bummer!!!

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

Well..... My first Rat Fink "T" has a Chevy Impala..... And I drive a Ford now!!! Back to the Rat Fink for more T-shirts!!

[@harveymushman2219]

Hi MAGOO !.....Mark W here....I have a silk screen Big Daddy did for me in Manti several years before he passed away my Mom talked him into doing it himself...ask Trixi was on loan for awhile to museum......Mighty Mustang...Is the one..a treasure I love...he also gave me a used greasy rat fink used for key ring...and several old mags he would sell his stuff from...one has paint all over it..

[@ToyManTelevision]

Dang. Wish we were finking fer real. But on line will have to do!!

[@la-platadurango1618]

Long live Rat Fink!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

La- Plata Durango so far so good!! He’s about 68 and still walking without a cane. Drives a clutch. Still has most of his teeth in spite of never flossing. Not once!

[@plasticbutcher]

Rat fink is always with me, he's tattooed on my left shoulder, had it done for my last rat fink reunion 2007 before I moved from Manti. Thank you for another awesome video Rick B. aka Plastic butcher

[@ToyManTelevision]

Be careful!! He bites when he's been drinking. Hope you speak rat.

[@plasticbutcher]

Toy Man Television been speaking Rat since the early 70s

[@kerridillon3120]

My cat Valentine wants Rat Fink to come over & be his dinner!! 😉 Another top notch episode...thank you for making my day Dale & Karyn!

[@la-platadurango1618]

Kerri Dillon Well.....That’s one way to put an end to a legend... 😱

[@jasoncarpp7742]

Another awesome video, guys. You've mentioned Rat Fink many times before. It looks like an awesome event. :)

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi.

[@tjhamer3]

Good show guys. the family loves your stuff

[@ToyManTelevision]

GREAT!!! I hope we can keep you watching! Some fun coming this weekend.

[@sunderman]

Very entertaining, well done video and editing. Really brings me back - makes me look forward, too, to my own creative expression, even after a lifetime. I loved those models in the early 1960s. Never thought to save them, it was just a child's craft thingie.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I loved making rat finks with my brother as kids. Oh to have one of those days back. Even for a few minutes.... but I have the memories and collection of the models I have been buying to replace and rebuild those toys. Those days.

[@georgeshiner5108]

Beautiful cars!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Oh the Mustang!!! AND that Crown Vick.

[@ATSFVentaSpurNscaler]

What an amazing reunion and car show! Dale and Karyn, you hang around the coolest people and artists. The spirit of classic hotrodding is alive and well, thank you, and no doubt due to the help of your little, scraggly, wiskered friend, Rat Fink! -from Tom Pilling

[@ToyManTelevision]

Almost N scale convention time!!!!! Geeeeez. I should get my hat blocked or something.

[@ATSFVentaSpurNscaler]

Toy Man Television Yeah, Dale, but I don't think I can make it there this year due to my big rig trucking schedule, which usually has me traveling in different parts of our country (sadly, not too often in SLC). If for some miracle I do make it, though, I'd sure like to look you up!!! That would be a blast. It would be great if you get your Mustang running by then so you could bring it to the convention! -from Tom Pilling

[@FutureRailProductions]

When I heard the words Von Dutch I couldn't help but say it in Ramone's voice from Cars. Great episode guys. Had no clue this place existed. Maybe I should come out there sometime. I'm a big fan of muscle cars. Especially cult classics. 67 Camaro or 69 Charger is by far my favorite.

[@ToyManTelevision]

FutureRail Productions oh that Von Dutch. The original A hole. But what a talent!! He was painting a guys ride and stuck his thumb in the paint on the tip of the hood. Rather than fix it he put a pinstripe around it to hide it. Worked. No one noticed the smudge. Next day people lined up to get stripped.

[@FutureRailProductions]

Toy Man Television Not bad. That is some talent!

[@roberthowland4503]

Thanks You I love you and what you're doing.

[@ToyManTelevision]

We are having fun doing it too do share with friends. Co workers. Random guys calling from Nigeria pretending to be IRS agents.

[@Femmpaws]

I really enjoyed you sharing your time at the Rat Fink Reunion... I'm looking at getting a Duce n a half to bob and fix up as an RV. I was thinking pink on pink camo for a paint scheme... I think it would be fun to bring it down to a car show like the Rat Fink Reunion. After all I grew up in the time of "Big Daddy" Roth and his side kick Rat Fink. Thanks again for bringing us along for the ride... It's a trip down memory lane for some of us.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Sounds like a project!!! Pink on pink? I'd go for rust on rust. Real rust!

[@Femmpaws]

Yes it's going to be a project for sure but worth it in the end I think. The pink on pink camo is from the paint scheme on the aircraft I'm building. It's Apple Blossom Pink and Pink Panther Pink in a camo pattern. Rust on rust has it's place. But after painting two early 80s Peterbuilt dump trucks at work, the painting is the easy part... it's the prep work that will be the time killer.

[@drgw489productions]

It’s cool and funny how you go from classic music to rock and roll and so on transitioning like what I call the vicious cycle

[@ToyManTelevision]

I feel that in the story so I thought it would be fun to do that with the music. Fine art rats Mormon’s and bikers. Clever for a rat!!

[@Manchessollte421]

aw dang it, was hoping for footage of my baby driving his little steel bodied vw around! but still, great video.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Radio controlled? Saw that!! Thats fun!!!

[@JWall_InKc]

I met Ilean and her son last year and they are just the nicest people. I've talked to Ed's son a couple of times and he is just a nice guy that doesn't have a mean bone in his body. I met Ilean once, and because I was so young pinstriper, she was so nice that she gave me some free R.F. merchandise. I wish I coulda met Ed. I look forward to seeing Ilean and her son again in about a month in KCMO.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Perhaps we will see you at the reunion some time. Ed lives on through friends family and a green rat!

[@JWall_InKc]

@@ToyManTelevision I hope so. It is a long drive from Kansas, but I have always wanted to go. Maybe I will see you up their at a future reunion.

[@markwilliamson2795]

7:45 in Original Silk Screen T shirt...I own what is most likely the very last Silk Screen T shirt Ed Roth ever did...My Mother and Father lived just down 3 rd North going to main st from the Roth's...I talked my Mother into asking Ed to do a Might Mustang one for me....he got it done and I treasure it to this day..Ilene will back me up on that...hung in the museum there for several different reunions...

[@ToyManTelevision]

Ilean has all the original screens. I would love to see them pull 100 or so prints from each to sell to collectors.

[@philmanson2991]

It's so funny that Rat Fink was born out of Big Daddy's hatred of all things Disney and Mickey Mouse.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Read love Mickey Mouse, and we love Rat Fink!

[@Mike-tg7dj]

That thang's got a Hemi!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Love hemi’s. You know Ford made a 429 Hemi? Wow!!! Used in NASCAR racing. And the Boss nine.

[@stevenhembree6007]

That was awesome I'm friends with Dale starberg out of Oklahoma he lives over on monkey island Brown monkey island I go to his car museum quite a bit you guys are awesome I loved Big Daddy Dan Ross's rap pink

[@DarrelCarson]

My Daddy had several cool cars when I was a kid back in the fifties, although I doubt they were considered cool then. My favorite was a black Henry J. The paint was wearing thin and had pink primer showing through in places. He pulled the engine and sold the car to a neighbor kid for a dollar then used the engine to power his sawmill.

[@ToyManTelevision]

AH the Henery J. The base model didn't even have a spare tire! But what a fun dragster or hot rod. Weighs about 3 pounds. GO FAST.

[@awesomeferret]

I think I'll try to come down there next year. Will you guys be going? I'd love to say hi.

[@ToyManTelevision]

We always plan on it. Barring disasters and illness and ennui. And we are planning on having “blue” there. The blue mustang. However we have planned that no for 3 years and no go. But 2019 for sure!!!

[@アイすず]

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[@ToyManTelevision]

Gee. Can’t translate. But thanks!

[@Mike-tg7dj]

I noticed a bunch of the rods were for sale.

[@ToyManTelevision]

More than usual for sure.

[@pbyfr]

Very cool, but there is the blue mustang? It's a shame that you couldn't take it.

[@ToyManTelevision]

The new fuel injection screwed up. Then the power steering pump blew up because it hadn’t been used in years. So the project continues. Gives us a chance to fix a few more things.

[@pbyfr]

Remind me of the motor glider we had at the soaring club. Always another thing which was breaking, but in the end it fly again. Well, it is also similar to my DCC experience! Incredible what we will do for screwing around.

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

In a way... The blue Mustang lives in the true Rat Fink tradition.. Keep On Keeping on... and when it goofs up... Back to the drawing board!!! It's all in the game! :D

[@ronstewart9792]

Great video,but you need to get some of your facts straight.

[@ToyManTelevision]

for example....

[@ronstewart9792]

Black and white 56 Ford was not a Crown Vic.. it was a straight Victoria, Crown Vic's had large chrome trim over roof and down where B piller would be on 2 door sedan. Still a great video.

[@ToyManTelevision]

We sure had some fun that day!! Rat Rocks!

[@amraceway]

The Aussie Valiant ute had the Australian made Hemi 6 cylinder motor. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKKxfHaqfrWBmqc

[@ToyManTelevision]

Never knew of such a thing. Sure like this car however!!!!