A Hard-Driven Man  Last week, one of Watts' most colorful
legends was confirmed. For nearly 40 years folks around that
part of town had heard a tale about Simon Rodia - the eccentric
and visionary Italian immigrant who built the Watts Towers - and
his red Hudson automobile.  "For as long as I can remember,
there has been a story about how Simon rode around town in a red
roadster that had a siren attached to it," says Mark Greenfield,
director of the towers' Art Center. "I guess we always just
thought it was just one more story about him."  But shortly
before noon last Thursday morning, the myth became reality when
a construction crew working in a dirt lot just behind the towers
unearthed a rusty, battered heap of steel.  The mass of mangled
metal proved to be more then just another discarded automobile
shell. And now curators of the towers are working to piece
together the details of the story, dating back to the 1920s,
behind the red Hudson.  The tale begins sometime around 1928,
when Rodia bought the two-do