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To: jerod

Actually, the “You can have your Model T in any color as long as it is black.” is a MYTH. - From the 1st year of production a customer could “special order” a T in ANY color, “for divers commercial uses”.
(A lady/milliner in my home county ordered a PINK Model T coupe in 1917 & drove it until her death during WWII.)

The REA in my home county owned/operated a RED (with black fenders & taupe trim) Model T “depot hack” for decades.
(After the T was “retired from regular service”, it was taken out & driven for years for various “advertising reasons”, like Christmas parades.)

Yours, TMN78247


21 posted on 04/11/2020 6:43:59 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: TMN78247
Actually, the “You can have your Model T in any color as long as it is black.” is a MYTH.

Ford mass produced T's in black becuase it dried quicker than other colors, so was more efficient for the production line.
38 posted on 04/11/2020 8:08:55 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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