Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show

08/29/2024

Regretfully, the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum board has decided there will be not be a 2024 edition of the Orphan Car Show.

Numbers for both the car-entry field and the paid attendance have been low in the post-pandemic era and costs for staging the show have risen, leading the museum board to determine that the event, always run as a fund-raiser for the museum, would return little or no value in return for the considerable volunteer effort required.

10/07/2022

https://journal.classiccars.com/2022/10/06/orphan-car-show-highlights-other-brands/?fbclid=IwAR247yGNZ7LSig-KkCbbkWxfUA0SsioJ_CVDe7jhXR1jgAuJHH4bDnk7Hy4

This veteran show focuses on the brands that no longer exist -- cars like Studebaker, Hupmobile and Packard, plus more recent marques like Olds and Mercury.

08/17/2022

We're Back! The city granted approval for use of Riverside Park on Sunday, Sept. 18 for the 2022 return of the Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show. There are also some events happening in Detroit that weekend, so we're part of a bigger car-fest in SE Michigan. Watch this space. Details and (important) entry form (a .pdf download) at this link: https://ypsiautoheritage.org/ Cars for the show must be pre-entered and approved, you can't just show up on the day. This year's theme is imported orphans.

04/02/2021

News from the museum. No park for the show this year.

01/13/2021

https://www.motorcities.org/story-of-the-week/2021/remembering-jack-miller-ypsilanti-s-mr-hudson

By Bob Sadler, MotorCities Communications Manager Photos Courtesy of the Ypsilanti Auto Heritage Museum Published 1.6.2021 Jack Miller at the Ypsilanti Auto Heritage Museum Jack Miller, the retired curator of the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum,...

12/30/2020

Age 81, passed away Monday December 28, 2020 at Superior Woods Nursing Home. He was born September 4, 1939 Labor Day in Ypsilanti, the son of Phoebe Melvina Sherman and Carl L. Miller. Jack graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from Cleary College in June of 1965. After the

07/06/2020

The museum board has decided to CANCEL the 2020 Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show. The museum is also closed until a future date uncertain.

09/22/2019

https://journal.classiccars.com/2019/09/21/pastor-misses-church-and-nearly-the-orphan-car-show-as-well/

But “a Southern fix,” or maybe it was a case of Divine intervention, sends him, his wife and their 1962 Studebaker home with a trophy

09/17/2019

Mac’s report on the 2019 show, where a morning shower dampened shirts but not enthusiasm.

Presenting one of our favorite vintage car shows, the annual Ypsilanti Orphan Car Show. Here’s our report on this year’s edition.