For Sale – 1927 Ford Model T – $385
Got ya – didn’t I ?
It was this date in 1927 that the last year of production of the Ford Model T went on sale.
It was at the amazing price of only $385 !
But that was in 1927 dollars. Do the math … that was a tremendous bargain.
And what about color choices ?
Henry Ford himself offered: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black”
Ford also had a team of engineers working on coming up with a substitute for the cow – because Henry HATED cows. He hated them A LOT.
A spokescow for the Cow Union was quoted to say: “Moo?”
Meanwhile – on the Ford assembly line …
“I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.”
Half of the cars on the road then were Fords. You could pick them out easily. The drab colored cars.
It wasn’t long before post WWII teens could buy them up for next to nothing and strip them down into hot rods. Individualism was the rule then.
Today – you can hardly recognize what once rolled off the assembly line back then as a “tin lizzy”.
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