Beatnik Bandit

The Beatnik Bandit is a custom car created in 1961 by "Big Daddy" Ed Roth, originally as a project for Rod & Custom magazine.[1] A Hot Wheels car was made based on the Beatnik Bandit.[2] The thing that made the Beatnik Bandit different from most other cars, though, was that, instead of a steering wheel, it was controlled by a joystick. The engine is a supercharged 303 cubic inch Oldsmobile.

Notes

  1. Roth, Ed; Thacker, Tony (2007), Hot Rods by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, MBI Publishing Company, pp. 3037, ISBN 0-7603-2893-5
  2. Roth, Ed (2003), Rat Fink: The Art of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Last Gasp, pp. 5051, ISBN 0-86719-544-4

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