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Ugliest Car Ever: The Aurora (no, not that one)

by Dan Roth (RSS feed) on Dec 24th, 2007 at 2:06PM

click above image for gallery of the Aurora Safety Car"We pass the basket for a second collection this week at Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration so the parish project car can be finished." It didn't go down quite like that in the Branford, CT parish of Father Alfred Juliano back in the 1950s, but the priest did build a car of his own design that was partially funded by parishioners. I remember rifling through a stack of musty Mechanix Illustrated backissues in my misspent youth and coming across a feature on this vehicle, called the Aurora. A lot of people have declaimed the hideousness of... Read More

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