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Offside Undo.(Column)
Byline: Dutch Mandel
The Post-Turkey Day drive always allows me to stir my Thought Pot. Questions: On the busiest travel weekend of the year, why doesn't social Darwinism work at 70 mph? How can so many stupid people get motorized vehicle permits? Why isn't my car fitted with a particle-beam vaporizer to eradicate slothful left-lane dwellers? Did brother-in-law Lee really need to snarf down all those Toll House cookies?
What truly leaves me perplexed is the idea of which cars, in 20 years, will sit on the verdant field of the Orphan Car Show in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
To remind you, the Orphan show celebrates vehicles that earned respect among collectors if not from mass consumers. They are the beauties behind the frizzy hair, the Groucho brow and those Coke-bottle glasses-at least that's how their owners look at 'em: Nash Metropolitans, the Edsels and Amphicars, the Hudson Terraplanes, the AMC Pacers and Opel Kadettes. They are, alas, the Fiat X1/9s of the world.
And before you flood this office with hate mail, know they are celebrated and feted, a far better fate than ignominy! Oh, yes! Joyous season of giving thanks and good cheer, let us offer up praise for the next generation of great car orphans!
Who can argue that Nissan's Pulsar NX in coupe and in ``Sportbak'' form would-could-be anything but an orphan? The Pulsar (which followed other loner thoroughbreds, the Datsun B210 Honeybee and the F10) was marketed at a then-blossoming ``secretary's market.'' Oh, yeah, that Pulsar got back: The Sportbak was affectionately referred to ...
- Walter P. Chrysler Museum to Sponsor Annual Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show Events,...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 8, 2007 700+ words
...season with the Pre-Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show Excursion, 9:30 a.m...models. The Pre-Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show Excursion travels to: 9:30...Cost for the Pre-Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show Excursion, payable at registration...
- Walter P. Chrysler Museum to Sponsor Pre-Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show Excursion.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 9, 2006 700+ words
...splendor with the Pre-Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show Excursion, 8:30 a.m...models. The Pre-Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show Excursion travels to: 8:30...Cost for the Pre-Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show Excursion, payable at registration...
- Orphans of the Big Three.(Orphan Car Show)(Column)
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek Ceppos, Rich June 27, 2005 700+ words
...Ypsilanti, Michigan, they held a car show unlike any other. It's called the Orphan Car Show and, as its name suggests, it...the dead brands on display at the Orphan Car Show are proof the ruthless forces of...
- Annual Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show to Showcase Nearly 400 Vehicles.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire March 9, 2006 700+ words
...of the 10th annual Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show Sunday, June 4, 2006 in the...a.m. - 4:30 p.m. The Orphan Car Show is open to all factory stock...highlight of the 2006 Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show will be a narrated pass- in...
- Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show June 3.(Business Lives)
- Magazine article from: Crain's Detroit Business May 7, 2007 700+ words
...will host its annual Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show June 3, 9:30-a.m.-4...a day-long pre-Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show excursion starting at 9:30...The 11th annual Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show is featuring cars that were built...
- Walter P. Chrysler Museum to Host Caravan to Annual Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show,...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 9, 2006 700+ words
...Hills Museum to the Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show in downtown Riverside Park Sunday...remarkable vehicles on display at the Orphan Car Show. A suggested route of paved...available at the show. The Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show features factory stock, un...
- LITTLE ORPHAN FURY; Plymouth joins DeSoto at the Orphan Car Show.
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek May 19, 2008 700+ words
...abandoned and dissed brands of the past at the Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show. The 12th annual show, June 1 in Ypsilanti, Michigan...rolled off the line on June 28, 2001. This year's Orphan Car Show is still accepting entries ($18 fee). All show...
- 'Orphan Car Tour' set in Bluemont, Va.(AUTO WEEKEND)(AUTO NOTES)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times June 3, 2005 700+ words
...THE WASHINGTON TIMES 'Orphan Car Tour' set in Bluemont, Va. The 16th annual "Orphan Car Tour," sponsored by...is hosting a collector car show tomorrow at Ourisman...Catonsville campus A car show for GM owners is scheduled...
