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Junkyard Find: 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais with Manual Transmission
- This is a public service announcement: cars equipped with three pedals are better than those with just two pedals or zero pedals.
- The General's Oldsmobile Division reached a high-water mark of sorts for the 1991 model year, with 11 distinct models available.
- Out of all of those, the absolute cheapest was the base-model Cutlass Calais.
- In 1991, if you wanted to lord it over your Chevrolet- and Pontiac-driving neighbors while standing proudly on the Oldsmobile rung of Alfred Sloan's "Ladder of Success" yet didn't quite have the money for an automatic transmission, the entry-level Cutlass Calais with three pedals was the car for you.
- This being the base Cutlass Calais for 1991, it has Iron Duke power under its hood (no, I have never claimed that the Duke is one cylinder bank sawed off the Pontiac 301 V8, but even the staunchest Duke fanatic can't deny that the Duke borrowed from the 301's design in order to save GM a few bucks on tooling and components).
- This one is a throttle-body-injected version rated at 110 horsepower and 135 pound-feet.
- Judging from the papers I found inside the car, it hadn't been used since the early 2000s. That explains the low miles.
- Only 88,521 miles at the end. The highest-mile Oldsmobile I've ever found in a car graveyard was a 1986 Calais with 363,033 miles, by the way.
- 1991 was the last year for the Cutlass Calais, after which it was replaced by the Achieva.
- With New Mexico checked off the list I have now documented discarded vehicles in the junkyards of 17 U.S. states.
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