Oldsmobile Aerotech

The Oldsmobile Aerotech is a series of three experimental high speed cars built between 1987 and 1992, the first two made to show what Oldsmobile new Quad 4 engine design could do. The team under Ted Louckes built them on modified March 85C CART chassis with carbon fibre bodywork and adjustable underbody panels, and Ed Welburn led the styling. The short tail car used a single turbocharged Batten engine and the long tail car a twin turbocharged Feuling engine of more than 1,000 horsepower. In August 1987 A. J. Foyt drove them at the Fort Stockton track in Texas, set a closed course record of 257.123 miles per hour and reached 275 miles per hour in the flying mile. In December 1992 all three cars, with Aurora V8 engines, broke 47 endurance records. Oldsmobile also used the name for two unrelated 1989 concept cars.