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more about #orphancarshow more comments → Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: These seats are the reason it became illegal to park alongside fire hydrants... even if your outboard passenger was wearing a cup. more » Novaload: Wow, with two of these cars you could have auto-jousting! With only one, I guess you could still have fun with a one player game of chicken. more » Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp: I prefer the canvas sack into which you put your dog on the running board. more » Ash78, tryptophanatic: You know that trick about blowing on a baby's eyes to get him to go to sleep? Yep. more » sos10: From drawer to drawer. more » marc2068: Those seats will make hitting a mailbox with a bat a lot easier. more » engineerd: If my mathematics are correct, this car is a 6-seater. 2 in the front, 2 in the back, 2 on the sides. A 2+2+2, if you will. What vehicles are availa... more » leavethegun-takethecannoli: I usually put my mother-in-law in the trunk. Interpret that as you wish. more » Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Rumble seat makes it a four seater. One of these jump seats (most accurate name ever) on each side makes it a six seater roadster. Perfect for squab... more » pres: Putting my ex-mother in law on that seat would cause that poor car to capsize. more » bdon: come on jalopnik you know better than this. the nesselsdorfer in 1902 was the worlds first boxer four at 5.9 liters. gigantic. it became tatra, tatra ... more » Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.: Ben, you were at the Orphan Show? You should have stopped by and said hi. I had my Rambler and my Eagle there. I talked with Junkman for a bit towa... more » junkman: The first woman to drive cross country, Alice Ramsey, used a 1909 Maxwell touring car. She and two friends completed the journey in approximately 59 d... more » the good dr zero: Just last weekend, Dad was showing pictures of his first "car", a 1953 (I think) Jowett Bradford van. It also featured a horizontally opposed twin, wh... more » Elhigh: That is a glorious throwback to a different time. It's every bit as Art Deco as the Chrysler building itself. Flippin beautiful. more » -
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Stupidest Awesome Car At 2009 Orphan Car Show: Out-rig Your Mom-In-Law
They're officially called "outrigger seats," but off the record they're known as "Mother-in-law Seats." The 1923 Kissel 6-45 GoldBug has two, and they're so stupid-awesome and dangerous we couldn't help but love the whole car. More » -
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1908 Maxwell LC Tourabout: Subaru Boxer's Great-Great-Grandpappy
We have a hard time getting revved up about horseless carriages over one century old, but this 1908 Maxwell LC Tourabout is pretty remarkable. Check out the horizontally opposed two-cylinder powerplant. Take that Subaru. More » -
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1947 DeSoto Custom Suburban Makes Minivans Seem Really Crappy
Minivans practically euthanize style as a matter of course, but it needn't be so. Check out this nine passenger 1947 DeSoto Custom Suburban, it's more stylish than a dozen modern Bentleys and cooler to boot. More » -
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1948 Davis Delta: Now That's Weird
Put aside for a moment that the one-wheel-in-front, three-wheeled car setup is inherently unstable, because when a car like the 1948 Davis Delta has this much wacky style, staying wheels-down is highly over rated. More » -
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Wilt Chamberlain's 1967 Ghia 450SS Spyder
Billetproof wasn't the only Detroit-area car show this weekend, we also popped over to Ypsilanti's Orphan Car Show, where we found the only car to make an appearance at both shows — Wilt Chamberlain's 1967 Ghia. More » -
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The Fabulous Hudson Hornet
Yes, it's the one and only Fabulous Hudson Hornet. While many of the classic automobiles on display at the 2008 Orphan Car Show came from far and wide, the journey for this piece of racing history was merely across town. That's because it now resides in the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum, a facility that was formerly home to Miller Motors, the last Hudson dealership in the world. But what made this Hornet so Fabulous? More » -
