You know what they say about beauty and the eye of the beholder. To my eye, the angular, asymmetrical XR-6 isn’t a beautiful hot rod. The judges at the Grand National Roadster Show thought differently and awarded the HOT ROD project car the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster trophy in 1963.
The XR-6 (experimental roadster, six-cylinder engine) was the brainchild of Associate Editor LeRoi Smith. As he recalled in the buildup’s first installment (March ’62),
