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Originally Posted by Andys289
First off. The car did sell. Auction didn't go as I hoped. Pretty sure I got scammed.
SunDude - sorry I didn't get to meet you. From what my son tells me I think we could of talked Cobras for all afternoon. 
Haywood - Is there much of a following here for Aurora Cars? This car I just sold was 1 of 2 Cobras that I had. The way the Aurora car was done always bugged me. As I said earlier I believed the car could of been better.
Anyway to prove my point ( noone really cared except me) I bought an Aurora in 1993. Totally disassembled it to the bare chassis. Sent the chassis to CSC and had them extend the side rails so that the floor could be flat and the put a dropped floor in under the pedals.
I then sold the Aurora body to Johnex and rebodied the Aurora with a 289 FIA body.. The FIA body is 6" wider than the slabside (427 is 10" wider)
Since the tires stuck out past the body 1/2" and the standard offset wheels are 2 1/2" = 3" x 2 car sat perfect. Was a nice car. Friend of mine still owns it.
But I have several parts from the original Aurora. I need to clean up my garage. |
Is there much of a following here for Aurora Cars?
Can't really say for sure as I'm a newbie here and found this site by accident very recently and was kinda trying to see if I could help out the guy with #51 in Denmark with his "Doody" problems which still makes no sense to me as to why he is having problems?
A "following" here?
Maybe more like an interest If anything I kinda guess.
I would rather guess that the Aurora Cars site would have the strongest following if anything?
I mean only an honest maybe 130-135 were actually built regardless of what is said about 170 being built.
After reading that you dissasembled an Aurora Car and took the body off the frame I think I may need to take a sleeping pill tonight?
Otherwise I may find myself fighting with the bedsheets thinking I'm in a Tyvek suit and hearing the noise of a cone shaped die grinder buzzing away?
That's a heck of a lot of work to undertake.
And you can never get back the $ put into a project like that.
As much fun as a convert Cobra may be?
And nothing sounds like a Ford.
At this stage of the game in life?
I'm looking for another '72-'76 rust free Triumph TR-6 with a factory hard top, OD and a/c.
Thats a fun car after you have battled with the electrics which I will call "Lucas the Knight of Darkness", rebuild the rear shocks and replace ALL 6 of the driveline U-joints at the same time.
Also looking for another '90's Acura NSX with a T top.
After seeing the new one, I can only imagine the $ of the older ones will rise?
Kinda kicking myself in the butt (which we have all done) I guess?
For not buying a '92 black on black manual Ttop twin turbo down here in SE FL a few yrs back for under $35k.
From a pilot transferring to NYC where he wouldn't even need a veh.
He had an EZ $20k just into the engine and it was done right.
The engine was pulled and built around the turbos, not just an "add on".
It was tame on the street until you put the pedal down and you would get sucked back into the seat. The NOS was a bonus too.
I had a fun test ride in that car and 170mph felt like going 80mph.
Dotted white lines on the highway become solid after about 130mph or so.
But I'm sure most here know that.
Just a factory NSX with upgraded tires was "Mosport Ready".
Many moon ago Japan did reverse engineering on US built cars.
And more recently and not all that long ago Oshawa GM did a reverse engineering on the Acura NSX.
I hear ya "Andy" on cleaning out the garage.
If you have anything "Aurora Cars" I can only suggest the Aurora Cars site.
And here of course also as it is a non biased Cobra site.
Don't really have much in the way of Aurora Cars stuff myself other than a few posters and maybe some hood emblems maybe?
And maybe a chitload of pics from way back then maybe somewhere?
Then again with a 900sq ft garage at home that I couldn't park a car in even if I wanted to?
I know that somewhere in there is my 1975 Kawasaki Z1B bigblock turbo murdercycle.
Somewhere in there?
Sorry for the "lengthy" but that's just the kind of guy that I am
At least I broke it up into readable paragraphs.
Can ya imagine if it was all just one solid read without the breaks?
Ya I woulda fallen asleep too.
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