1923 Model T Ford photographed at the Ford Summer Estate in Ft. Myers, Fla. BF photo. Jan, 2021. By Paul Goldfinger, MD
1923 Model T (above) engine closeup. Click to see details. BF photo.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net
The Model T Ford was the most important auto produced in the 20th century.
The Model T was Ford’s first automobile mass produced on moving assembly lines with completely interchangeable parts marketed to the middle class. Henry Ford said of the vehicle:
“I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.”
Between 1908 to 1927, 15 million of these cars were made.
Imagine you are a young man in 1923. Your dad lets you pick up your date in his Model T Ford. It could only reach 40 mph with a 4 cylinder engine, but you felt like you could fly with it. The top is down, and your girl holds onto her bonnet with one hand. You floor it down a country road, and you feel that there is a God.
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