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 ...

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.

1914: The moving assembly line at Highland Park produces 34,858 Model Ts — an 82% increase from Piquette’s output. 1917: Ford introduces a truck, the Model TT, based on the Model T. 1927: The ...

This issue’s car doesn’t look much like the Model T that Henry Ford sold for $260. Ford enthusiast Don Rose, of Fremont, bought it in 2017and, this is his third classic Ford vehicle.

Johnson said the museum now has 13 Model T's from 1914 to 1927 model years. Most of them have wooden frames, though Ford was one of the first manufacturers to build vehicles with all-steel bodies ...

Ford made the radical switch to conventional pedals and controls when it dropped the T for the Model A in 1927, but by that time, 15 million Ts were on the road. At the Model T's peak, more than ...