The car remained unsold for several years. The closest city is Juarez, Mexico, just across the border. John bought a Baldwin-Motion Camaro in Mexico and brought it back home. The muscle car era had just ended and what was really hot, for both John and Eddie, were big block Camaros and Corvettes. Then, one day he got caught in the bubble for over an hour and became completely disenfranchised with the wild custom. In an effort to straighten out the carburetors, he recalls cutting off the fuel flow to the outer pair of Stromberg two barrels, which did not use a progressive linkage. 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. Queues for this ride are always quite long due to it’s central positioning in Discoveryland but use Extra Magic Hours to ride quickest.Mike did know the futuristic looking custom, which Roth built in ’64, had been last accounted for in El Paso.
Only the person at the front of the rocket ship can control the up & downwards movement This is a family ride for all ages but it is advisable to not take children under 1 year old on due to the heights and seating position.Ĭlimbing into the very low seating can be a challenge especially with small children so make sure they are seated first at the front with adults behind.
The ride capacity is low (12 rockets x 2 seats per rocket) so ride time is low too at around 90 seconds only. This retro feel carousel really does give you a sense of flying & is worth the wait for the scenic views alone. You are in control of your rocket by using the controls inside the cockpit which allow you to climb high or cruise along the lower reaches of the planetary void. Once everyone is seated then ground control will set the machine in motion and you will begin a voyage of discovery high above Discoveryland. You begin by taking a seat inside your 2 seater rocket ship and strapping yourself in ready for take off.
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