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 ...
The story of the Model T is central to how Detroit became the Motor City. Here are some fast facts about Ford Motor Co.'s early days, the Model T and early factories. 1903: Henry Ford creates Ford ...
Ward W. O'Hara Agricultural & Country Living Museum, special to The Citizen Ward W. O’Hara was a founder of the Agricultural & Country Living Museum that bears his name, located at Emerson Park in ...
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 ...
This weekend there’s a very special FREE event is taking place at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant. One hundred and sixteen years ago on September 29th the first Model T was produced at the Ford ...
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. — Don’t let looks deceive you. The Model T Ford can actually be very difficult to drive. It has three pedals, a gear lever on the floor, a gas lever on the right side of the ...
Don Cantrell's 1914 Ford Model T roared to life after one spin of the hand crank Sunday afternoon. He loaded four passengers into the red relic and made a quick U-turn on the way out of the parking ...
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, ...
Ford introduced the Model T way back in 1908, and production continued for nearly two decades before finally coming to an end in 1927. Engines of this era, even four-cylinder engines like the unit ...
1903: Henry Ford creates Ford Motor Co. 1904: Ford builds the Piquette Avenue Plant in the Detroit neighborhood of Milwaukee Junction, just east of Woodward Avenue. The plant was made of brick and ...