“15,000,000 of the Model T’s before production ended in 1927”
Staggering numbers, especially for 1927.
When I got married, my neighbor drove us from the church to the reception hall in his 1925 Model T. We really had quite the show on the road with our motorcade. We were in the rumble seat waving to all the nice folks that were honking cheers to us.
Ford just rolled off the 10 millionth Mustang, since 1964, so that 15 million number is astonishing for the Model T.
Evidently, the reverse gear had more torque then the forward gears and you would sometimes see them being driven uphill backwards. https://www.history.com/topics/model-t
Yeah, and I don’t think their stock price has changed much since then.
The Apple of their time.
My dad grew up on a farm in Montana. They had a model T truck that he would drive to the one room schoolhouse starting at nine years old. As he drove along slowly, other kids would hop on. That would be in the late ‘30s and ‘early ‘40s. When I visited the farm for the summer at the same age around 1970 I remember him pointing out the hulk of it to me and telling the story. I also saw the abandoned one room school house with battered board see-saw for a playground.
Around the World in a Ford Model T
In a near one-hundred-year-old car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhwVjJvEjAs