Vehicle Description
THIS 1926 FORD MODEL T IS LOCATED IN: WALTON, KY 41094
The Ford Model T (colloquially known as the Tin Lizzie, Leaping
Lena, jitney or flivver) is an automobile produced by Ford Motor
Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally
regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened
travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was
because of Ford's efficient fabrication, including assembly line
production instead of individual hand crafting.
The Ford Model T was named the most influential car of the 20th
century in the 1999 Car of the Century competition, ahead of the
BMC Mini, Citroen DS, and Volkswagen Type 1. Ford's Model T was
successful not only because it provided inexpensive transportation
on a massive scale, but also because the car signified innovation
for the rising middle class and became a powerful symbol of
America's age of modernization. With 16.5 million sold it stands
eighth on the top ten list of most sold cars of all time as of
2012.
Although automobiles had already existed for decades, they were
still mostly scarce, expensive, and unreliable at the Model T's
introduction in 1908. Positioned as reliable, easily maintained,
mass-market transportation, it was a runaway success. In a matter
of days after the release, 15,000 orders were placed. The first
production Model T was produced on August 12, 1908 and left the
factory on September 27, 1908, at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in
Detroit, Michigan. On May 26, 1927, Henry Ford watched the 15
millionth Model T Ford roll off the assembly line at his factory in
Highland Park, Michigan.
Henry Ford conceived a series of cars between the founding of the
company in 1903 and the introduction the Model T. Ford named his
first car the Model A and proceeded through the alphabet up through
the Model T, twenty models in all. Not all the models went into
production. The production model immediately before the Model T was
the Model S, an upgraded version of the company's largest success
to that point, the Model N. The follow-up was the Ford Model A
(rather than any Model U). The company publicity said this was
because the new car was such a departure from the old that Henry
wanted to start all over again with the letter A.
RESTORED 1926 FORD MODEL T COUPE
CLEAN TITLE IN HAND
4 CYL ENGINE
MANUAL TRANSMISSION
ALL STEEL BODY
GREAT PAINT AND INTERIOR
RUNS DRIVES AND STOPS GREAT
HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO OWN THIS GREAT CLASSIC!
