The Best of America, and America's Best.(The Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Collection.)(Column)

Byline: Dutch Mandel I felt sort of like a blues club owner who shoos the last late-night patron out then sits down with a tall cold one to enjoy a private jam session. That was lunch in Ypsilanti, Michigan, home to as much automotive emotion as one little burg in the shadows of a big brother town could hope to muster.

This was the Monday following Ford's centennial celebration, and just a ways down old US-12 they packed crates, coiled speaker wire and pushed Porta-Johns off Henry Ford II World Center grounds. The masses-among them a bundle of Model Ts that trekked 2700 miles to ...

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