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Henry's wonderful Model T, 1908-1927

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Floyd ClymerFirst published 19553 editions

America's all-time favorite car was Henry Ford's Model T, made and sold between 1908 and 1927 and known variously and affectionately as the fliver, the jalopy, and the Tin Lizzie. No other automobile in history inspired so many stories, jokes, songs, and cartoons, so much love, laughter, and irritation. The T owner swore both at and by his car. Henry's Wonderful Model T is a fond album of memories of the car that put America on wheels -- a colorful record of its life and times in more than 500 photographs, diagrams, advertisements, jokes, cartoons, and 20,000 words of informative text. It will bring back the wonderful past to 1,000's of former T owners who, once upon a time, thawed out their engines with boiling water in sub-zero weather, backed up steep hills in the T's powerful reverse, removed the front seat to fill the gas tank, crawled under the car to test the oil supply, and spun the crank and leaped for the driver's seat before the jalopy took off -- driverless. Did you know that when Henry Ford ordered parts, he required the supplier to ship them in wooden boxes of a pre-determined size. Workers would then use the wooden slats from the boxes to build the Model T's floorboards -- at no cost to Ford!

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First publish date 19551 credited authorSearch language english

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