Ford Model T Collectors and Restorers - The Frontenac Motor Company Brass-Era Automobile Collection

<body> <h1>Collectors And Restorers of Model T Fords and other brass-era motorcars, horseless carriages Ford Model T</h1> <P> At the Frontenac Motor Company, we restore and collect antique Ford Model T cars. Henry Ford called his Model T <i>The Universal Car</i> and he firmly believed that there was no need for further development in motorcars as he had perfected the modern automobile. Henry Ford may have been overstating the facts here, but his Model T and the Ford Motor Company did change the world. Before the end of the second decade of the twentieth century, more than one half of all the cars in the entire world were Model T Fords. At no other point in history has a single car company, let alone a single model held so much market share. Henry Ford put the world on wheels. This site is dedicated to the profound artistry of the Ford Model T automobile and other brass-era motorcars. 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He did, however, change the world by using an assembly line technique to produce cars which could be afforded by everyone. From 1909 to 1927, the <a href="http://www.hfmgv.org/">Ford Motor Company</a> built more than 15 million Model T cars. Without a doubt, Henry Ford transformed the economic and social fabric of the 20th century. </p> <p> Ford is often quoted as saying "I will build a motorcar for the great multitude". At the time it was a revolutionary business model to lower a product's cost and the company's profit margin in exchange for increased sales volume. Up until this point in time the automobile had been a status symbol and cars were painstakingly built by hand for the wealthy. By the end of 1913 Ford's application of the moving assembly line had improved the speed of chassis assembly from 12 hours and eight minutes to one hour and 33 minutes. In 1914 Ford produced 308,162 cars, which was more than all 299 other auto manufacturers combined. By the time the last Model T was built in 1927, the company was producing an automobile every 24 seconds. </p> <p>Studebaker, Oldsmobile, White, Cadillac, Ford, Chevrolet, Atlas, Briscoe, Maxwell, Atlas Automobiles. <p> The first production Model T Ford (1909 model year) was assembled at the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit on October 1, 1908. Over the next 19 years relatively few changes were made to the basic design. By 1926 the design was so antiquated that the cars could not compete with more modern designs from companies like Chevrolet. 1927 was the last year for Henry's lady, the "Universal Car". </p><p> In 1906, Ford secretly set up a place to build his cars in a building on Piquette Avenue in Detroit. Ford spent nearly two years designing the Model T, building on knowledge gained from the production of earlier cars, like his Ford Model N. </p><p> While Henry Ford and his team were planning for his new car, he attended a race in Florida where he examined the wreckage of a French race car. He observed that it was made of a different kind of steel and the car parts were lighter than those he had been previously seen. He learned that this new steel was a vanadium alloy and that it had almost three times the tensile strength of the alloys used by his contemporary American auto makers. No one in America knew how to make vanadium steel so Ford financed and set up a steel mill. As a result, the only cars in the world to utilize vanadium steel over the next five years would be French luxury cars and the Ford Model T. Ford's use of vanadium steel explains why so many Model T Fords have survived today. </p><p> Henry's car changed the world forever. In 1909, for $825, a Model T customer could buy a reliable automobile that was fairly easy to drive. Ford sold over ten thousand Model T cars in the first year of production, a new record for any automobile model. </p><p> Ford applied the moving assembly line concept to his production facility late in 1913. His staff constantly monitored productive and relentlessly analyzed the statistical measures to optimize worker productivity. Over the years, Model T Fords came in many different models, all built with the essentially same engine and chassis: the Model T roadster, coupe, coupelet, runabout, roadster torpedo, town car, touring, and the fordor and tudor sedans. </p><p> No one really knows if Henry Ford ever said that the buying public could have Model T Fords "in any color, so long as it's black", but it is commonly attributed to him. While this saying is true for the model years after 1913, earlier cars were available in green, red, blue and grey. In fact, in the first year, Model T Fords were not available in black at all. The switch to all black cars was due to Ford's ongoing obsession with cost reduction, and not, as is commonly believed, to reduce drying time and hence increase production. </p> <p> Over 30 different types of black paint were used to paint various parts of the Model T. The different types of paint were formulated to satisfy the different means of applying the paint to the different parts, and had different drying times, depending on the paint and the drying method used for a particular part. Ford engineering documents suggest that the color black was chosen because it was cheap and it was durable. In 1926 colors other than black were once again offered, in an attempt to boost dwindling sales. </p> <h1>Learning To Drive A Model T Ford</h1> <p> It is a challenge to learn to drive a Model T Ford well, especially in today's traffic. Model T's don't accelerate or brake quickly. The brakes function using bands which constrict the transmission, unlike a modern car which uses brake calipers attached directly to the wheels. They don't handle very well by today's standards although they navigate dirt roads and washboard like nothing else. In fact, this is the road surface for which they were designed. </p> <p> There are three pedals on the floor, two levers on the steering column, and one floor lever to the left of the driver. The floor lever is neutral while in the upright position, second gear when in the forward position while the leftmost pedal is not depressed, and emergency brake when all the way back. </p> <p> The leftmost pedal is first gear while depressed, second gear if the floor lever is forward when released. The middle pedal is reverse gear and the rightmost pedal is the brake. The right lever on the steering column is the gas, and the other lever is the spark advance. Confused? Once you drive for a month or so, it gets easy, but the controls are far from orthogonal. If you get into trouble, you can just stomp on all three pedals and that will stop you pretty quick. Doing this causes the bands in the transmission to lock up the drive train. The best thing to remember while driving is to plan ahead. </p> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2">  </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-5576819-4"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); </script> </body>