model t

     

Made for only 19 years, it sold for $825 in 1908 & $360 in 1927

Trivia about model t

  • The stamp seen here representing the first decade of the 1900s features this automobile:
  • Henry Ford introduced this model in 1908 & dropped all his other models the next year
  • Too young to enlist in World War I, Walt signed up with the Red Cross instead & drove an ambulance--one of these Fords
  • In 1909 Henry Ford produced over 10,000 of this car, saying customers could get it in "any color...so long as it is black"
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) In the longest run of any U.S. car model from 1908-1927, Henry Ford built 15 million of this model
  • It was the first car off a moving assembly line
  • This early type of Ford was nicknamed the "Tin Lizzie"
  • On May 26, 1927 the last Ford of this model rolled off the Highland Park, Michigan assembly line
  • This early Ford car is considered the first successfully mass-produced on an assembly line
  • Seen here, it was introduced in 1908
  • (Alex walks the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI.) This Ford plant turns out one vehicle every minute; Henry Ford's original streamlined plant in the early 1900s turned out one of this famous model every 90 minutes
  • This groundbreaking alphabetic creation from Henry Ford debuted in 1908
  • Sears issued its first book of modern homes in 1908, the same year Henry Ford introduced this car to the public
  • In 1908 this model cost a whopping $850, but Ford's assembly line soon cut that in half