"The Bandit was a 1955 Olds chassis & engine that I chopped and slammed. The body was built with my plaster & fiberglass method. The idea for the bubble top came from Bobby Darrin's 'Mac the Knife' dream car. I called Detroit to find out what a bubble top'd cost & they'd tell me thousands o' bucks so that I got this idea from Louie Aguirre to put some regular plastic in a pizza oven & then blow it up like a balloon while it was still hot. It was a hot idea (Get it?) It never failed. First time, every time."
- Ed Roth, from Hot Rods by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth