Ford Model T: The Car That Put the World on Wheels (Hardcover)

Ford Model T: The Car That Put the World on Wheels Book Description

One hundred years after the Model T's introduction, this marvelously illustrated history examines all aspects of the car's genesis, production, marketing, and legacy. Veteran automotive journalist Lindsay Brooke explores Model T predecessors, the production methods that evolved to meet the demand for the car, and Ford's introduction of the revolutionary "five-dollar day." Brooke also traces 19 years of model changes, covers T-based trucks, and provides a rollicking look at the car's role in early motorsports and hot rodding. Illustrated throughout with photography and period art, much of it from The Henry Ford Museum, Model T: The Car That Put the World on Wheels" brings the story right up to the present, with a look at T ownership today. The result is a fitting tribute to the world's first automotive icon.

The story of Ford Motor Company's Model T is the story that launched the American automobile industry--and America's love affair with the car. When he introduced the Model T in 1908, even an eternal optimist like Henry Ford could not have predicted the far-reaching changes he was setting in motion. One hundred years later, this illustrated history looks back at the beloved Tin Lizzie. The book follows the Model T from design considerations (its ground clearance, for instance, had to allow for the abysmal state of U.S. roadways at the time) to its lasting legacy, and along the way describes the mechanical, manufacturing, and marketing innovations that the car's production entailed.
Author Lindsay Brooke also relates the adventures and misadventures that were part of owning and driving a Model T. He chronicles the changes the car's unprecedented popularity wrought in the auto industry (including Ford's introduction of the "$5 day"), and he tracks the Model T through popular culture, from its role in early motorsports to its resurgent popularity in the 1950s and 60s as a platform for T-bucket hot rods. Illustrated throughout with period art and evocative photography, this book celebrates as never before the car that epitomized the American automobile.

About the Author :

Lindsay Brooke has contributed to Ford Model T: The Car That Put the World on Wheels as an author. Detroit-based auto writer Lindsay Brooke has been covering automotive and motorcycle technology and history for more than 25 years. He is senior editor of Automotive Engineering International," published by the SAE, and has served as editor of Automotive Industries" magazine (successor to The Horseless Age" and The Automobile"). This is his fourth Motorbooks title.

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