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2009 Orphan Car Show: 1927 Graham Child's Hearse

We headed down to the 2009 Orphan Car Show in Ypsilanti, MI on Sunday and the first orphan we stumbled upon was this unusual hearse. This one off was built in 1927 as a prototype for a line of funeral cars sized for carrying the remains of children. According to the adjacent sign, Albert H Whittekind spent two years carving the wooden adornments on the flanks. The hearse runs on a Graham chassis, which was the truck division of Dodge Brothers before that brand was absorbed into Chrysler. No funeral homes ever purchased any of these smaller ... Read more →

2009 Orphan Car Show: MT Tech Editor brings out his 1967 Sunbeam Alpine Sam Abuelsamid

As we wandered around this year's Orphan Car Show, we ran into Motor Trend's Michigan-based technical editor Frank Markus. It turn's out Frank was displaying his own summertime toy, a 1967 ...

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2009 Orphan Car Show: MT Tech Editor brings out his 1967 Sunbeam Alpine 6 months ago on Autoblog

As we wandered around this year's Orphan Car Show, we ran into Motor Trend's Michigan-based technical editor Frank Markus. It turn's out Frank was displaying his own summertime toy, a 1967 Sunbeam Alpine roadster. Frank told us that he has owned this particular machine for over 20 years and it ...

The Top 10-ish Orphan Car Brands 1 year ago on Autoblog

In this era of automakers on the brink of extinction, it's worth recalling that car companies going belly up is not a new phenomenon. Henry Ford himself started up two other brands that failed before Ford Motor Co. finally caught on. Start-up companies are not something that was invented in Silicon ...

Orphan Car Show '08: Are pedal cars in our future? 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of pedal cars from the 2008 Orphan Car Show Once upon a time before there were Power Wheels, munchkins had to provide their own motivation. At the Orphan Car Show last week a gentleman by the name of Greg was displaying part of his collection of pedal cars and, ...

Orphan Car Show '08: 1966 Austin Healey 3000 Mk III 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of this pristine Austin-Healey The annual Orphan Car Show took place in Ypsilanti, MI yesterday and Mother Nature provided absolutely perfect weather for the event. One of my personal favorites of the show was this sparkling pearl white 1966 Austin-Healey 3000 Mk ...

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