Thanks mdittmar. I'm an old hayseed really, I first heard this from Bill Spence and Fennig's All-Stars.
"OnThe Dixie Bee Line" by The Albemarle Ramblers- Arnie Naiman, Pete Vigour, Dick Harrington
Posted on 01/12/2020 4:39:11 PM PST by mdittmar
On January 12,1904,Henry Ford sets a land-speed record of 91.37 mph on the frozen surface of Michigan’s Lake St. Clair. He was driving a four-wheel vehicle, dubbed the “999,” with a wooden chassis but no body or hood. Ford’s record was broken within a month at Ormond Beach, Florida, by a driver named William K. Vanderbilt; even so, the publicity surrounding Ford’s achievement was valuable to the auto pioneer, who in June of the previous year had incorporated the Ford Motor Company, which would eventually go on to become one of America’s Big Three automakers.
(Excerpt) Read more at history.com ...
Old folk lore.
Q. When was the first auto race?
A. As soon as the second auto was built.
Thanks mdittmar. I'm an old hayseed really, I first heard this from Bill Spence and Fennig's All-Stars.
"OnThe Dixie Bee Line" by The Albemarle Ramblers- Arnie Naiman, Pete Vigour, Dick Harrington
That’s a great capsule history. Thanks for sharing.
I didn’t realize Ford sold Model T cars for five years (1908 to 1913) that were hand assembled the old-fashioned way and that he didn’t introduce the assembly line until 1913. That was such a huge achievement! Can you imagine taking the assembly time down from 12 hours and eight minutes to one hour and 33 minutes? And then, a year later, making 308,000 vehicles, more than the output of all other carmakers combined. That is really astonishing. He was turning out almost 1,000 cars per day from one factory.
I’m stealing That!
1000 cars a Day!!!
I’ll bet
Quality Control
Was Stretched Thin.
“Quality Control Was Stretched Thin.”
Yeah, you could probably conclude that because it had even been invented.
Was Ferrari made aware of that?
I am soooooo glad he wasn’t driving a two wheeled vehicle! It might have evolved into very long ten passenger two wheeled vehicles! It really would have thrown the 48 foot rule out of whack.
There wasnt much to them so there wasnt that much to go wrong.
Did I really
Need a sarc tag?
/s
Another thing most people who may have heard about the Model T don’t know is that the T was a product of a progression of models, such as the K, N, R & S, that led to the T. The Model N was the best selling car in America, by far, from 1906-1908.
I guess I needed a sarc tag on my reply, too.
We are sarcing each other.
That’s Funny,
“The Old Double Sarc!”
...and both were clueless. Well, no. I knew you were sarcing us. I have a good sarc detector. Not sure about yours, though.
I’m “Prickly”
at Times
But I can be
Talked Off
the Ledge.
.
Ha!
I think I should
Read some more
Howell,1666
For Good Blood.
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