"I will build a car for the multitude, " Henry Ford said of his famous Model T.
In 1921, Herbert Putnam, a librarian, drove it across town in his Model T.
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.
From then until the introduction of the Ford Model T in 1908, cars were just toys for the rich.
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Fred Houston was in high school when he saw his first Model T, rusting away on an Oklahoma farm.
His father, the H2's owner, had driven a Model T when a kid.
And almost always by selling something a Model T or a Samsung Galaxy cheaper than the current way of doing things.
The great American carmaker paid his employees enough to afford a Model T.
The greatest fortune ever made in the auto business was made by Henry Ford with his low-priced Model T car.
But the experience is oddly appealing and even addictive, which explains why the Model T has fans all over the world.
By virtue of our peculiar history (Model T) and sprawling geography, we have come to see ourselves as singularly entitled, automotively.
The third time was a charm, and the company was instantly profitable, even before the popular Model T debuted in 1908.
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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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With its "high unlovely body and pugnacious snout, " the Model T became the object of jokes, songs and a new American folklore.
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.
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.
He understood that if he paid his workers a living wage, they would be able to afford to purchase his Model T.
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The Rocky Mountain trip was co-organized by local chapters out of Colorado and Oklahoma of the Model T Ford Club of America.
Le Fever's speedster had 100hp, rather than the Model T's customary 20.
Henry Ford was fond of saying that the customer could have a Model T in any color as long as it was black.
These organizations each put out a magazine on alternate months, guaranteeing members of both clubs a steady stream of Model T-related reading material.
To meet the growing demand for the Model T, he designed the first moving assembly process to produce cars on a large scale.
Dressed in white coveralls and wearing a crash helmet, Gary Le Fever, 70, sat gripping the wheel of his 1921 Model T speedster.
The Green Garage, which what was once an abandoned Model T showroom, has been reinvented into a collaborative workspace for sustainable Detroit entrepreneurs.
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" 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.
Not only did the Model T beat the Hummer, it beat every other comer, including a modern turbocharged Dodge diesel and the county sheriff's patrol car.
Digital technology has already rocked the media and retailing industries, just as cotton mills crushed hand looms and the Model T put farriers out of work.
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