Nine survivors from 55 hand-built cars, and this bronze beauty still wears its original paint and finned turbine tires. We walk through the bat-inspired styling cues (cooling fins around the lamps and even the rear-view mirror mount), the giant air-intake box, hot-gas regenerators, vacuum pump for brakes, and the loaner-program stories—everyday Americans drove these with Chrysler’s insurance. Don’t miss the “shame box” reset you had to flip if you flooded the start sequence. Jet tech, road manners, and why the program ended.

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