In its day, it was called a Tin Lizzie, Leaping Lena or just plain Flivver. But to Jeff Skinner, 82, it’s his pride and joy, a 1926 Ford Fordor, one of 15 million Model T cars Henry Ford built from ...

With that singular instruction, I was fully immersed in the Model T experience, engaging unfamiliar switches and levers, my feet dancing across pedals with exotic purposes as the 1916 Model T — black, ...

Ford introduced the Model T way back in 1908, and production continued for nearly two decades before finally coming to an end in 1927. Engines of this era, even four-cylinder engines like the unit ...

Cast your mind back to a time when the automobile was still considered a novel invention. The Benz Patent Motorwagen debuted in 1886, representing more of a technological curiosity than anything. The ...

“We can get there faster on the 210,” we told our piloto, Harry Hernandez, in whose 1924 Model T we were driving. “The freeway? What are you, nuts?” he asked. “Not in this thing.” “This thing” was ...

The Ford Model T is one of those cars that even people who know nothing about cars have likely heard of. Usually, they've heard wrong things about it, like it was the first car ever, or the first mass ...

In a high-security room on the third floor of a factory in Detroit’s bustling Milwaukee Junction industrial neighborhood in 1907, six men and a 14-year-old boy changed the world. In less than a year — ...

Charlevoix — In the 1920s, the Ford Model T transformed America. Bringing affordable, personal transportation to the masses, “Tin Lizzies” — as Model Ts were fondly nicknamed — established Detroit as ...

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In the modern-day world, where drag racing usually involves two or more supercars accelerating at breakneck speeds over the quarter-mile, someone decided to take a break from the 700-hp Ferraris, ...

Gasoline or electric? For the first time in more than 100 years, both are viable options for many car buyers—but what was that decision like at the turn of the last century? With the help of The Henry ...