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    The many lives of a Detroit

    Sep 30, 2021 4 minutes
    with Bob Tomaine

    The automobile business is an unforgiving one and, in general, a car that disappears doesn’t return. True, there have been exceptions, such as Studebaker’s Avanti that returned as the Avanti II, and the Cord that sort of returned as the Graham Hollywood and Hupmobile Skylark.

    Neither of those examples was quite like what happened at Detroit Electric. For one thing, it actually happened at Detroit Electric as a last, classic example of the cliché about grasping at straws.

    Twice Detroit

    Anderson Carriage Co. introduced its Detroit Electric for 1907, a time when internal combustion’s ultimate supremacy didn’t seem assured, and electric and steam cars still had an apparently real chance. Of the three, only

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