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Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Junkyard Find: 2003 Oldsmobile Aurora



00 - 2003 Oldsmobile Aurora Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

Here at Down On the Junkyard HQ, we’re all about American automotive history. We’ve seen one of the last of the GM J-bodies, evidence of how Ronald Reagan saved Ford from recall-induced bankruptcy, and Shelby-ized French Chryslers. Today we’ll be looking at one of the many cars that didn’t save Oldsmobile, a final-year-of-production Olds Aurora that I spotted last week in a Denver-area yard.
05 - 2003 Oldsmobile Aurora Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

This was one of three Auroras in the same yard, and I chose it because it was sold at a time when Olds shoppers knew that the marque was doomed. You could get a V6 Aurora in 2001 and 2002, but the ’03s all had the Northstar-based 4.0-liter V8 engine.

03 - 2003 Oldsmobile Aurora Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

The guys from Car and Driver entered an Aurora in the first-ever 24 Hours of LeMons race, and “won” the People’s Curse award for their trouble.

08 - 2003 Oldsmobile Aurora Down On the Junkyard - Picture courtesy of Murilee Martin

This one looked pretty clean but had been rear-ended and wasn’t worth fixing. Now it will donate parts to nicer second-gen Auroras. The case can be made that Oldsmobile is the most important marque in American music, but that didn’t stop GM from swinging the axe after 106 years.


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