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Built in Ypsilanti

The marques assembled, bodied or born here.

a preserved mid-century car in a museum interior — Photo: Hudson Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich.jpg · Wikimedia Commons

Everything in Built in Ypsilanti

4 guides

Ypsilanti Built Cars Nobody Remembers6 min
Hudson, Kaiser-Frazer, Tucker, Corvair — the marques and the plants.
Kaiser-Frazer at Willow Run4 min
A bomber plant that became a car plant.
The Corvair Connection4 min
What was actually made here, stated carefully.
The Interurban and the Rails3 min
How people moved before the cars they built.

The other four sections

LandmarksThe structures, what they were built to do, and what they are now.Depot Town & the StreetsBrick frontages, cast iron, and how to read a 19th-century street.The RiverThe Huron, bridge by bridge — the reason there is a city here.Museums & CollectionsThe rooms that hold the city's industrial past.

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