The auto industry is one of the few industries in which that is the case. That's because automobile manufacturing is a complex process that involves input from a wide array of industries -- including agriculture (for rubber), mining (for coal, iron, nickel, etc.), and manufacturing (for fabrication of steel, plastics, etc.).
Henry Ford was able to pay his assembly line workers enough money to make the products of their work affordable, but only because these workers were simply at the last point in a long line of processes that were carried out by workers who could not afford to buy new cars. The worker on the rubber plantation in the Philippines wasn't driving around in a brand new Ford . . . nor was the coal miner in Scranton, PA . . . or the iron and nickel mines of Canada.
One of the most sobering realities of economics is that people generally must be employed working for people who have a higher standard of living than they do. If you think about it, it's almost obvious . . . you never see a landscaper mowing lawns in modest neighborhoods, do you?
Well I've seen picture of my grandfather in new Fords from that time. Although he made his best money during WWII as I recall.