He told us the car would hardly go a block and a half before it quit. Today, John is the Service Manager at Shamaley Pontiac, Buick, GMC in El Paso. Excited to drive the famous machine, It wasn’t long before they became disenchanted with the car’s reliability. They all knew the bubble-top car was a Roth custom. Sid’s brother Eddie Abraham and his nephew, John Attel, a young man still in school but of driving age, got interested in Orbitron. All he could tell us was he might have obtained it in a criminal case. Vic does not remember when he bought the car or from whom. An attorney named Sid Abraham owned the car in partnership with local bail bondsman Victor Apodaca. His good friends Tony and Sergio Aguilar remembered the show car, which featured three headlights offset to the passenger side, parked on Montana street at “Abraham Engineering” in the 1972 – 1975 time frame.
Mike did know the futuristic looking custom, which Roth built in ’64, had been last accounted for in El Paso.
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