"I use'ta use a safety helmeted wierdo in my old car show drawings from 1960 called 'Race?' In '62 when Revell needed more characters for their wierd plastic models, I hadda give the character a name: 'Drag Nut.'"
- Ed Roth, from Confessions of a Rat Fink

1960s Revell Trade ad:
"The monster scene couldn't be complete without 'Drag Nut' grinding the gears in the nuttiest Bantam Dragster ever devised by 'Big Daddy' Roth. This new Revell kit comes complete with the most unnecessary automotive accessory known to man - a genuine, 100% pure, bonafide RAT FINK!"