Cast your mind back to a time when the automobile was still considered a novel invention. The Benz Patent Motorwagen debuted in 1886, representing more of a technological curiosity than anything. The ...
Introduced as a replacement for the Ford Model T, the Model A was rather short-lived compared to the world's first affordable automobile. While the Model T remained in production for a whopping 29 ...
1903: Henry Ford creates Ford Motor Co. 1904: Ford builds the Piquette Avenue Plant in the Detroit neighborhood of Milwaukee Junction, just east of Woodward Avenue. The plant was made of brick and ...
Bill Grant graduated from Pomona High School in 1952, so he experienced the postwar hot rodding boom firsthand. He had his first car, a Model T, when he was 12 and a '36 three-window coupe when he was ...
WHILE the Ford company was still turning out Model T it was said that if any employee made a suggestion for improving the car he was apt to be discharged. I don’t believe that, but it is true that ...
It's easy to forget just how revolutionary the historic Ford Model T was. The car itself was, of course, a huge success, with over 15 million of them manufactured between 1908 and 1927. With ...
After the iconic Model T, Henry Ford's next big hit with Ford fans was the Model A. It took a while for Ford to realize that his breakthrough Model T had run its course — the company built the ...
Henry Ford and his Model T are as engrained into the fabric of American history as George Washington being our first ...