{"id":843,"date":"2015-05-26T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2015-05-26T11:18:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T18:18:08","slug":"may-1927-model-t-production-ceases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"May 1927 &#8211; Model T Production Ceases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/last-day-of-model-t-production-at-ford\" target=\"blank\">May 26,1927<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 Henry Ford and his son Edsel drove\u00c2\u00a0the final Model T out of the Ford factory. Completion of this 15 millionth Model T Ford marked the famous automobile\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s official last day of production.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/todaymade.com\/blog\/henry-ford-entrepreneur\/\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"modelT.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discoveringidentity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/modelT.png\" alt=\"ModelT\" width=\"590\" height=\"377\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/last-day-of-model-t-production-at-ford\" target=\"blank\">The History.com<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0article stated<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>More than any other vehicle, the relatively affordable and efficient Model T was responsible for accelerating the automobile\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s introduction into American society during the first quarter of the 20th century. Introduced in October 1908, the Model T\u00e2\u20ac\u201dalso known as the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tin Lizzie\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dweighed some 1,200 pounds, with a 20-horsepower, four-cylinder engine. It got about 13 to 21 miles per gallon of gasoline and could travel up to 45 mph. Initially selling for around $850 (around $20,000 in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dollars), the Model T would later sell for as little as $260 (around $6,000 today) for the basic no-extras model. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No car in history, had the impact\u00e2\u20ac\u201dboth actual and mythological\u00e2\u20ac\u201dof the Model T: Authors like Ernest Hemingway, E.B. White and John Steinbeck featured the Tin Lizzie in their prose, while the great filmmaker Charlie Chaplin immortalized it in satire in his 1928 film \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Circus.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have never driven a Model T, but have always loved seeing those old cars in real life or in pictures, faithfully restored or heavily customized. Just for fun, here is a hot rod that originally was a Model T. My guess is that nothing but the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bucket\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is original equipment, but who cares? Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tenwheel.com\/view\/9902-1923_ford_t___bucket__model___t__streetrod__hot_rod__rat_rod.html\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"modelT2.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discoveringidentity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/modelT2.png\" alt=\"ModelT2\" width=\"590\" height=\"325\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00c2\u00a0May 26,1927\u00c2\u00a0 Henry Ford and his son Edsel drove\u00c2\u00a0the final Model T out of the Ford factory. Completion of this 15 millionth Model T Ford marked the famous automobile\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s official last day of production. \u00c2\u00a0 The History.com\u00c2\u00a0article stated More than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=843\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[202,203,204],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-article","tag-ford","tag-history","tag-model-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}