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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 ...
The Top 10-ish Orphan Car Brands Sam Abuelsamid
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 ...
Orphan Car Show '08: Are pedal cars in our future? Sam Abuelsamid
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 ...
Orphan Car Show '08: 1966 Austin Healey 3000 Mk III Sam Abuelsamid
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. ...
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