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Hatchbacks have been around since the first model launched in 1938. What constitutes a hatchback car today? How does a hatch compare to a sedan or a coupe or an SUV? Grasping the differences and analyzing these different types of cars can help you to find the right vehicle for your lifestyle.
- 10 The Model T Did Not Cause Prohibition
- 9 It Was Quite Versatile
- 8 It Was Unbelievably Difficult to Drive
- 6 It Was Replaced with The Model A
- 5 It Was Nicknamed The Tin Lizzie After It Won A Race
- 4 It Was Not The First Car Built on An Assembly Line
- 3 The Model TT
- 2 Ford Did Not Advertise The Model T
- 1 Poland Modified It Into A War Vehicle
There are claims that Henry Ford designed the Model T to run on ethanol instead of gasoline. Supporters of this claim say Ford only switched to gasoline when the sale of alcohol was banned during Prohibition. Some conspiracy theoristssay oil magnate John D. Rockefeller convinced the US government to introduce Prohibition just so the Model T would o...
The Model T was a very versatile vehicle. This meant that people used it for more than just getting around. The Model T was used as a tractor, snowmobile, grain mill, sawmill, and more. Repurposing of the Model T was so common that businesses sprang up to provide aftermarket kits to turn the Model T into something other than a car. Magazines of the...
The Ford Model T was unbelievably difficult to drive. It’s probably easier to drive an excavator today than to drive a Model T. People of the day didn’t care, though, because there was no agreed-upon standard on how vehicles worked. They considered the Model T normal, even though people who have attempted driving it today think otherwise. The Model...
Henry Ford called his first car the Model A. The next was the Model B and so on until he reached the Model T. In 1927, Henry Ford unveiled a new vehiclehe called the Model A, rather than the Model U. This Model A often has something like “(1927–1931)” written after it to differentiate it from the earlier Model A. Ford named his vehicles from Models...
The Ford Model T went by a few nicknames, including the “flivver” and the “Leaping Lena.” However, its most common nickname was the “Tin Lizzie.” The Model T got that name from a race. At the time, car dealerships regularly hosted automobile racesto publicize the cars in their collection. One such race was held at Pikes Peak in Colorado in 1922. On...
The Model T was not the first car built on an assembly line. Henry Ford didn’t invent the assembly line, either. What he actually invented was the moving assembly line. The assembly line was the inventionof Ransom E. Olds of the Olds Motor Vehicle Company. Olds created the assembly line to build the Oldsmobile Curved Dash. The Oldsmobile Curved Das...
Most people do not know that Henry Ford made a truckversion of the Model T. The Model TT was a Model T with a bed in place of rear seats and a heavier frame. As we mentioned earlier, Ford never wanted to make any other version of the Model T. However, he made an exception after observing many Model T owners replace their rear seats with a wooden be...
Ford’s Model T was the Tesla of its day. The Model T was so successful that Ford did not run advertisements and depended on word of mouth to drive sales. That is the sort of thing Tesladoes today. Ford initially did some advertisingfrom the time he invented his car until 1917, when he stopped all advertisements. He did not run a single ad between 1...
Poland created an armored version of the Model T in June 1920. It was called the Ford FT-B, alternatively known as the Model 1920 or the Ford Tf-c. The vehicle was the brainchild of one Tadeusz Tanski (pictured above with his invention), who worked with the Polish Ministry of Military Affairs at the time. The Ford FT-B was developed as a part of Po...
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