[Andys289]

Mystery? Sorry I would of responded to this earlier but I didn't know until someone told my son at the auction there was a thread here. I haven't visited this site in several years and just recently rejoined.
This car has nothing to do with an Aurora. The body for this car was from a mold taken from an original Cobra prior to the mould being sold to the person that started Aurora Cars.
Actually the only part that came from Aurora is the windshield frame and glass that I purchased because at the time it was easier, safer and cheaper than ordering one myself from Contempory Cobra in Mt.Vernon New York
The chassis, suspension and aluminum work was contracted to a street rod / race car chassis builder in 1981. His name is Brad Watson. Brad also did a some of the chassis design work for Aurora Cars as well as modification work on cars that customers requested. ie there were 2 Auroras that I know of that were delivered with Chevy small block V8's. If you were to see the two chassis side by side the only parts that are the same is the front and rear hoop. An Aurora has a fiberglass one piece interior tub, trunk floor, inner fender panels and as one of you mentioned very tight foot boxes. All my interior panels are aluminum rivetted to a lightweight steel structure that makes the chassis very ridgid. Also the interior floor in an Aurora slopes up toward the front making it very tight around the pedals. My floor is flat and the boxes are almost 3" wider each side. My clutch and brake pedals rise up from the floor as do the original cars. Also we raised the trunk floor to fit the mufflers in the recess so that ground clearence would not be an issue. Its not. hence the exhust location.
I completed the car in the fall of 1984. It was licensed in the Spring of 1985
It has won several awards over the years starting with 3rd place in the Peoples choice awards at SAAC in Dearborn in 1986 and Best Street Machine and Best New shown at Motion in 1986

I have driven it every summer for 27 years and I will miss it dearly.

I always believed that the Aurora would of been a great car except for some decisions that were made that prevented it.
The up-sloping floor and the pedals down out of the top along with the narrow foot boxes made it too tight for any one with a larger than a size 9 foot to drive.
The boxes were narrow to allow for the one piece fiberglass tub to be put in place around the hoops. If they were made separate they could of been made wider but that require a lot more labour.
The use of off the shelf Mustang II front suspension made the tires and wheels stick out past the body work made an otherwise beautiful car look bad. Even with a 2 1/2" negative offset wheel.