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LITTLE ORPHAN FURY; Plymouth joins DeSoto at the Orphan Car Show.
Byline: KEVIN A. WILSON
It has come to this: Plymouth vehicles are now eligible to join other defunct, abandoned and dissed brands of the past at the Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show.
The 12th annual show, June 1 in Ypsilanti, Michigan, welcomes Plymouth owners, for the first time, to join Hudson, Studebaker, Nash, Kaiser, Edsel, Rambler, AMC and numerous other shuttered brands remembered fondly by showgoers and preserved lovingly by doting owners.
Plymouth was created in 1928 alongside DeSoto to fill in the young Chrysler Corporation's lineup. Both marques are celebrating their 80th anniversaries, and both are featured at this year's show.
DeSoto, shut down in 1961, has been eligible since the show started in 1996. The general rules say that a brand has to be out of business in the U.S. market for seven model years, and the car itself must be at least 15 years old. For Plymouth, that restriction is a little tougher: Only Plymouths built between 1928 and 1959 are ...
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