How FORD Started !

Trueoo7 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-06-2010, 07:42 PM

Nice video on how it all started:

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=S4KrIMZpwCY

289fia_cobra · #2 (**permalink**) 05-06-2010, 08:06 PM

great vid. Had no idea the Model T was an "all terrain vehicle"...

dcdoug · #3 (**permalink**) 05-06-2010, 08:13 PM

That was super cool. Thanks!

olddog · #4 (**permalink**) 05-06-2010, 08:25 PM

One mistake I caught. The early "T" did not have electric starters, but the later versions did. He said they had to be hand cranked, as though all were that way. Not so. Although all Ts had hand cranks. Even the model A had a hand crank.

The T was a big improvement over a buggy, but it was likely the most unsafe contraption ever built. Still like them though.

Trueoo7 · #5 (**permalink**) 05-07-2010, 04:46 AM

I liked seeing how they made the wooden wheels and yes I guess back then they had to be all terrain vehicles given the conditions of the roads they drove them on.

Ron61 · #6 (**permalink**) 05-07-2010, 05:34 AM

Thanks for posting that. If some of our roads and streets get any worse we may need to revert back to them. My Grandfather used to tell me how he had to back up some hills in the deep ruts that they called roads back then.

Ron

trularin · #7 (**permalink**) 05-07-2010, 08:07 AM

Excellent video.

CobraEd · #8 (**permalink**) 05-07-2010, 10:57 AM

Yep . . . Excellent!