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Detailed Look at Aerowars and Restored Cars

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What happens here

The hosts examine an orange Dodge Daytona #71, a replica of Bobby Isaac's 'Aerowars' car from the 1969-1970 NASCAR season. The current car features a modern Roush Yates FR9 engine and represents a blend of classic design with contemporary technology. They also look at a red #27 Sunny King Ford stock car, explaining that it was originally a Leroy Yarbrough car that they restored and unveiled as a surprise for Donnie Allison. The team took this car to Bonneville Salt Flats, setting 24 records, and Aaron's promise to Goldie (Bobby Isaac's sister) to race it on the salt flats was fulfilled.

Goal: Examine specific historical race cars and their restoration stories.

Tools and materials

  • Dodge Daytona #71 Race Car Dodge — Restored 'Aerowars' replica
  • Roush Yates FR9 Engine Roush Yates — Modern engine in the Dodge Daytona replica
  • Sunny King Ford #27 Stock Car Ford — Restored historical race car

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some of the stuff that i think is really cool where they basically took old bodies and built them as if they were like a new stock car style what's under the hood of these things um that's a roush yates uh burn 9. fr9 that's the current forward engine isn't it there you go so that's like authentic nascar stuff that's raw shades manufactured made tuned go to uh let's look everything got oxidized in just a short few days that's just from a couple days a couple days yeah that's awful we did this one was to be unveiled we uh it was a leroy yarbrough car and then donnie ellison and bobby ellis and dave marcus came here one day and we talked aero wars and everything with them and we watched donny run his hand over and talk about the car and this and that we all went you know what we need to take this strip it down paint it red and i'll handle it's all hand lettering by sleeveless bob in mooresville and we put donnie ellison's name on it with his sponsors and we unveiled it surprised him uh which is one of our youtube shows um we surprised him and they uh charlotte motorspoon and victor lane and he was blown away had no idea whatsoever we were doing that then we took this out to bonneville and uh we ran it out there that's awesome how old is he now 81 maybe 82. this car and this car were part of the aero wars in 1969 1970 and then they got so fast that nascar said okay at the end of the 70 season said we're done these cars are done uh come up with something else so this car was well not this exact car but the car liked this bobby isaac had it so he said well heck they took it out to bonneville and 50 years ago and they did 24 records out on the salt so aaron lived next door to his sister goldie and he made a promise a few days before she passed she grabbed aaron's hand said hey do me a favor if you're going to go out to bundle and set those records i want you the only one to do it 50 years later we took this car put it on the salt and um fastest we was 211. so this car is uh it's modern everything but with this these were both built from the chassis up here at the garage shop wow yep this is that group of guys here put it all together that's awesome this is like this is like the coolest stuff ever yeah i don't know how interesting you guys think no it's amazing yeah this is like got me all kinds of stirred up and uh we went to uh the wilburn museum in alexander city alabama tim welburn has an awesome museum there if you check it out the original bobby isaac dodge…

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