Ed Roth, American illustrator and engineer (born 1932)

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth was an American artist, cartoonist, illustrator, pinstriper and custom car designer and builder who created the hot rod icon Rat Fink and other characters. Roth was a key figure in Southern California's Kustom Kulture and hot rod movement of the late 1950s and 1960s. However, some of the designs that Ed Roth claimed to be his own art were in fact not his, but created by Don "Monté" Monteverde. Rat Fink is an example of one such design.