The low slung car featured height adjustable suspension, front wheel drive, and a powerful engine, and appeared in episodes of four TV series: Bewitched, Star Trek, Batman, and Mission: Impossible.

Winfield entered The Reactor in the 1966 Grand National Roadster Show where it won the Tournament of Fame Award.

[2] Creator Gene Winfield owns The Reactor, which was shown on the lawn at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 2017.

[2] Reactor was finished in a trademark Winfield fadeaway paint job, changing from metalflake gold on top to green below.

[12] Winfield took the air-cooled 180 hp (130 kW) turbocharged flat-six engine from a Corvair Corsa and mated it to the drive-train of a 1962 Citroën ID 19,[3] Winfield kept the wide front and narrow rear track of the donor Citroën,[3][13] as well as its height adjustable hydropneumatic suspension, which enables the car's ground clearance to be varied from 4 to 9+1⁄2 inches (100 to 240 mm).