Every car has a story. But few are as good as the one surrounding “The Orbitron,” the space-age ride created in 1964 by California’s most renowned custom car builder, Ed “Big Daddy” Roth. The car had ...

Ed Roth seemed to care little about his show cars after he was done with them, to the extent he once told me he wanted to cut one into little pieces to sell as key chains. He dismissed the Orbitron, ...