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 ...
In the modern-day world, where drag racing usually involves two or more supercars accelerating at breakneck speeds over the quarter-mile, someone decided to take a break from the 700-hp Ferraris, ...
First released in 1908 by the Ford Motor Company, the Model T is one of the most important vehicles ever made. While it wasn't the first car to be produced on an assembly line, Ford took steps that ...
Ford did not invent the automobile. We have Carl Benz to blame for that with his Benz Patent Motorwagen. But we can safely credit Ford with creating the affordable car in the shape of the Model T. One ...
Gary Blakely takes the first spin with Rick Taylor in the running Model TT truck. Henry Ford’s first Model T rolled off the assembly line in 1908, ushering in the age of the automobile and becoming a ...
In a high-security room on the third floor of a factory in Detroit’s bustling Milwaukee Junction industrial neighborhood in 1907, six men and a 14-year-old boy changed the world. In less than a year — ...
CHARLEVOIX, Michigan — In the 1920s, the Ford Model T transformed America. Bringing affordable, personal transportation to the masses, “Tin Lizzies” — as Model Ts were fondly nicknamed — established ...
In the early 20th century, rural mail carriers who purchased automobiles for their routes learned quickly that their new cars were often no match for deep snow. In 1906, Virgil White began converting ...
Members of the Nation’s Capital Model T Ford Club are working hard to keep history alive. Club members and Fairfax County residents Dick Javins and Dick Sullivan have spent countless hours restoring ...
Ron Crawford has been a Model T enthusiast for practically all of his life. He was a 13-year-old kid when he owned his first one. Now, at the age of 80, he's back behind the wheel of another Model T.
Ford is trying to do for electric trucks what the original Model T did for gas cars: drag a niche technology into the center ...