The Car That Put the World on Wheels Ford Model T
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The Car That Put the World on Wheels Ford Model T
By Lindsay Brooke
In cooperation with The Henry Ford Museum
The story of Ford Motor Company’s Model T is the story that launched the American automobile industry--and America’s love affair with the car. When he introduced the Model T in 1908, even an eternal optimist like Henry Ford could not have predicted the far-reaching changes he was setting in motion. One hundred years later, this illustrated history looks back at the beloved Tin Lizzie. The book follows the Model T from design considerations (its ground clearance, for instance, had to allow for the abysmal state of U.S. roadways at the time) to its lasting legacy, and along the way describes the mechanical, manufacturing, and marketing innovations that the car’s production entailed.
Author Lindsay Brooke also relates the adventures and misadventures that were part of owning and driving a Model T. He chronicles the changes the car’s unprecedented popularity wrought in the auto industry (including Ford’s introduction of the “$5 day”), and he tracks the Model T through popular culture, from its role in early motorsports to its resurgent popularity in the 1950s and 60s as a platform for T-bucket hot rods. Illustrated throughout with period art and never before seen photography, this book celebrates as never before the car that epitomized the American automobile.
Title: Ford Model T Author: Lindsay Brooke ISBN-13: 978-0-7603-2728-9 Retail: $40 US, $44 CAN, $25 BRI Binding: Hardcover Dimensions: 9.25 x 10.875 Page count: 208 Illustrations: 73 color, 183 b/w Publication Date: April 2008 Imprint: Motorbooks
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Detroit-based auto writer Lindsay Brooke has been covering automotive and
motorcycle technology and history for more than 25 years. He is senior
editor of Automotive Engineering International, published by the SAE, and
has served as editor of Automotive Industries magazine (successor to The
Horseless Age and The Automobile). This is his fourth Motorbooks title.
ABOUT MOTORBOOKS AND QUAYSIDE PUBLISHING GROUP
Motorbooks, an imprint of Quayside Publishing Group, is the world’s leading publisher of automotive, motorcycle and motorsport books for enthusiasts. For over 40 years, Motorbooks has published award-winning books by the world’s most talented authors and photographers in the subject category.