One of the things we’ve always liked about this alternative shot from the Invader feature from HRM’s July 1967 issue is that in spite of this being a twin-Pontiac engine, twin-Hydro transmission, twin-Jaguar rear, custom-bodied show car, it was built to be driven. And in that context, it’s so exotic and a striking shortcut to top-down sublimity as anything plying the highways of our hot rod hearts. Yeah, it’s kooky from our 2017 perspective, yet 50 years after its creation, it offers up a challenge to stretch your imagination and definition of what a hot rod is and can be. Bob Reisner’s aluminum roadster is also one of those unicorns winning the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster title twice, in the days before the rules mandated you make major changes to your winning roadster to be judged for a second title. Yes, a lot has changed in 50 years, but the image of a wild roadster cruising through town still holds the same fascination and pleasure now as it did then.
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