EVENTS

Famed customizer and comics artist Ed “Big Daddy” Roth will be the featured guest at the annual “Rat Fink Reunion” on Dec. 11 at Mooneyes in Santa Fe Springs. Customs, dragsters and street rods will be on display, including examples of work by Roth (including his three-wheel Surfite), Robert Williams, Larry Watson, Von Franco, Coop and other notables. The free program, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., will include live surf and rockabilly music, a swap meet and a charity auction. Mooneyes, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is at 10820 S. Norwalk Blvd. Information: (562) 944-6311; https://www.mooneyesusa.com.

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Gabriel Valles of the Freeway Service Patrol attends to a stalled car on the westbound Santa Monica Freeway. The 8-year-old patrol consists of a fleet of 150 privately owned tow trucks that offer free service to vehicles stalled on Los Angeles freeways. Last year the little-publicized cooperative, which is funded by the California Highway Patrol, the state Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, assisted 350,000 drivers. And the concept has spread to other Southern California counties. G2