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Today's Cool Car Find is this '99 Aurora Land Speed Racer for $20,000
Today's CCF pick is not your grandfather's Oldsmobile Aurora. CLICK HERE FOR FULL AD!
Details from Seller:
Are you interested in a unique and safe approach to Bonneville Land Speed Racing? Me, Too, that’s why I built this car for the production sedan class.I picked this 99 Aurora after much research. I’m happy it is unpopular and obsolete because I want to do something very different, and as an underdog.
It has a very interesting front wheel drive, the chain driven 4T80E transaxle, the highest HP FWD GM ever built.First we installed a new Shelby Aurora DOHC 4.0L sideways V8 320 HP engine with the sideways 4T80E trans that was also used on 8000 lb Cadillacs.
I wanted front wheel drive and a heavy front end believing it would pull us safely across the salt which worked well.With 60% weight on the front, the car is very stable, and with a Cd of 3.2, the car is slipperier than the Camaros holding the records.It’s a 4000 lb 4-door sedan with flush glass that famously broke GM’s crush test machine so they had to use the truck machine for testing.
I like the underdog nature. Any normal hot rodder would laugh and say just get a Camaro and put an LS in it. Not me. Sideways engine.
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Details from Seller:
Are you interested in a unique and safe approach to Bonneville Land Speed Racing? Me, Too, that’s why I built this car for the production sedan class.I picked this 99 Aurora after much research. I’m happy it is unpopular and obsolete because I want to do something very different, and as an underdog.
It has a very interesting front wheel drive, the chain driven 4T80E transaxle, the highest HP FWD GM ever built.First we installed a new Shelby Aurora DOHC 4.0L sideways V8 320 HP engine with the sideways 4T80E trans that was also used on 8000 lb Cadillacs.
I wanted front wheel drive and a heavy front end believing it would pull us safely across the salt which worked well.With 60% weight on the front, the car is very stable, and with a Cd of 3.2, the car is slipperier than the Camaros holding the records.It’s a 4000 lb 4-door sedan with flush glass that famously broke GM’s crush test machine so they had to use the truck machine for testing.
I like the underdog nature. Any normal hot rodder would laugh and say just get a Camaro and put an LS in it. Not me. Sideways engine.
CLICK HERE FOR FULL AD!Click Here to Begin Slideshow
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