Perfecting the use of an assembly line allowed Ford to lower prices significantly further; by 1913, a touring Model T cost just $600 – and Henry Ford managed to half the cost to just $300 by 1915.

As it turns out, the Model T's successor was a clean-sheet design, and Ford wanted a fresh start with the Model A. Ford sold three million Model A units by 1930, three years after its debut, and ...

Back then, one model--Ford's Model T--was unchallenged as the most popular vehicle on the planet. The famous "Tin Lizzie" accounted for more than half of all vehicle production.

Elderly, crotchety and maimed, James “T-Model” Ford is a genuine Mississippi bluesman, among the last of a dying breed. His life marked by poverty, violence and mayhem, Ford is the living ...