Only two were unaccounted for, Orbitron and Mysterion, the latter destroyed years ago. The Beatnik Bandit is the most famous of his creations, valued in the millions of dollars. Another Roth custom, Tweetie Pie (built using a Model T, not a full ground-up Roth creation) sold recently for $1.2 million. So, when Orbitron came out of hiding, albeit in sad shape, the Internet went wild with stories of lost treasure found. Hyping the find even further were those pictures of the spot where Orbitron was found, in front of an adult sex shop in Juarez.

Mike did know the futuristic looking custom, which Roth built in ’64, had been last accounted for in El Paso. 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. In the windshield was a for sale sign.

Orbitron was not a fast mover. An attorney named Sid Abraham owned the car in partnership with local bail bondsman Victor Apodaca. Vic does not remember when he bought the car or from whom. All he could tell us was he might have obtained it in a criminal case.