From then until the introduction of the Ford Model T in 1908, cars were just toys for the rich.
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The original station wagons were literally that wagon bodies built on a Ford Model T chassis used to transport people and luggage from a train station.
No other company came close to making a car as cheaply as Ford made its Model T.
When Henry Ford built the Model T, few roads were paved, so the cars had to be tough.
An Indian car may soon earn a parking place in history alongside Ford's Model T, Volkswagen's Beetle and the British Motor Corp.
There were people still meandering along in horse-drawn buggies long after Henry Ford introduced the Model T for everyday people to drive.
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In fact, Henry Ford's Model T a hundred years ago got 25 miles to the gallon, which is better fuel economy than the average new car today.
Nine thousand like-minded Lizzie drivers have gathered there, many also belonging to the older Model T Ford Club International, founded in 1952.
The Model T Ford, built from 1908 to 1927, was meant to be a bare-bones alternative to luxury cars for the rich.
The Rocky Mountain trip was co-organized by local chapters out of Colorado and Oklahoma of the Model T Ford Club of America.
The Model T Ford when introduced by Henry Ford in 1908 could be ordered with an adjustable Holley carburetor that could be adjusted to run on either gasoline or ethanol.
Since UPS began shuttling parcels from Seattle department stores with a Model T Ford and a few motorcycles in the early 1900s, it has become an almost invisible hand in the U.S. economy (see chart).
When the two were found dead Homer apparently of starvation, Langley from a booby trap meant to snare intruders the house contained, among many, many other things, 15, 000 medical books, 10 grand pianos and that chassis from a Model T Ford.
L. Doctorow's new novel, "Homer and Langely, " offers fictional insight into the reclusive Collyer brothers, found dead in their Fifth Avenue mansion in 1947 amid 130 tons of trash, including 14 pianos, 25, 000 books, decades worth of newspapers and the chassis of a Model T Ford.
"I will build a car for the multitude, " Henry Ford said of his famous Model T.
The greatest fortune ever made in the auto business was made by Henry Ford with his low-priced Model T car.
Not the Ford of the assembly line and the mass-marketed Model T, whose achievements Gou has already matched, nor the elderly Henry Ford of the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
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The Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903 by Henry Ford, who transformed personal transportation with his Model T, an automobile that was reliable, efficient and reasonably priced.
The lineup of classic cars is now ordered chronologically, starting with an 1895 Roper Steam carriage and Henry Ford's Quadricycle, the 1896 forerunner of the Model T.
While the Quadricycle, the 1909 Model T and a 1932 V-8 Ford are cars you'd expect to see in an array of historic vehicles, the value of "Driving America" is in the way that it presents cars you would be more likely to find in a junkyard than a museum.
Henry Ford was fond of saying that the customer could have a Model T in any color as long as it was black.
Henry Ford may have been, in his earliest years, when he rode his excitement and clarity of vision about the automobile to give America the Model T and a new universe, but then Ford ran out of ideas and ossified and lost all his creativity.
" Summing up Ford's effect on society, Mr. Snow writes that the Model T "left us the landscape we know today gas stations, suburbs, parkways.
One, featuring a sepia-toned, faux historical photo of a young Henry Ford in a workshop with an Apple, compared the product to the Model T for its ease of use.
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Soon Ford was developing the assembly line, which would boost production from 20, 000 Model T's in 1910 to 600, 000 six years later.
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