In this short episode of my Today in the Past series, I talk about what happened on August 12 back in 1908, when the very ...
Brett T. Evans has more than a decade of experience driving, writing about, and evaluating automobiles. His early career comprised writing about pre- and post-war classic cars, as well as late-model ...
Some cars invite you in with chrome and comfort. The Model T invites you into a time machine, hands you three pedals that mean the wrong things, and politely asks you to learn 1910s. Then it coughs, ...
Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...
To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, we’re cataloging 25 objects that define the country’s history. When the Ford Model T first hit the road in the early 1900s, it didn’t just change ...
The ferry broke down at exactly the wrong moment for everyone except Henry Ford. On June 8, 1909, two stripped-down Ford Model Ts rolled onto a little wooden ferry at Glasgow, Mo., and crossed the ...
Introduced in 1908, the Ford Model T remained in production through 1927. Assembled in tens of factories across the world, the Model T sold over 15 million units. Although it's been nearly 100 years ...
Argue all you want, but it was the Ford Model T that put the world on wheels. Before that you had to be a prince or a potentate to get a car. Henry Ford’s assembly line gave the world mass production, ...
A routine oil change usually takes less than an hour, but what happens when the vehicle pulling into a modern Ford dealership was built before most American roads were paved? The team behind ...
The Ford Model T went on to sell over 15 million units, making it one of the best-selling cars of all time, alongside the Toyota Corolla and Volkswagen Beetle.