What sort of vehicles came out of 'Big Daddy' Roth's garage?
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Soon his garage was his studio, anything he could imagine, he could find a way to create it. Some of his first cars were, "The Outlaw", "Beatnik Bandit", "Rotar" and "Excalibur". He entered the Excalibur in a 1958 contest at Disney. However, the car was not judged because the interior was incomplete. According to Roth, "I had a few tools in them days. I had some basics like a crescent wrench and a hacksaw and a couple files. So I wired, with bailing wire, all the stuff I wanted welded and took it to a trailer place down the street where this dude named Clarence Bell welded the stuff together. Then I took it home and filed all the weld marks down and took it to the chrome shop."
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