Which came first: The Ford Model T or the turbocharger? You might be surprised—just like I was when I googled it—to learn that the turbo is actually a bit older. Swiss engineer Alfred Buchi may have ...
Henry Ford famously designed the Model T to be simple, reliable, and affordable for the masses. What he didn’t design it for was forced induction. But a century later, the mad scientists over at ...
Automotive technology has advanced quite a bit since the days of Carl Benz's Patent Motorwagen and the one-cylinder engine. The Ford L-head T-4 that powered the Model T helped that car bring ...
YouTube channel Merlins Old School Garage decided to combine a modern turbocharger with a Model T engine in an intriguing what-if scenario. The Ford Model T engine was special and was dramatically ...
There’s more to Model T No. 15 million than meets the eye. Ford Motor Co. celebrated its production with a ceremony on the last day of production in 1927 at its sprawling plant in Highland Park just ...
Argue all you want, but it was the Ford Model T that put the world on wheels. Before that you had to be a prince or a potentate to get a car. Henry Ford’s assembly line gave the world mass production, ...
When Thomas Miller of Livonia retired from Ford Motor Co., he was told to find a good home for the circa 1914 Model T engine block that he sometimes used as a teaching tool. A replica that was cast ...
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 — ...
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) - The putter of a Model T engine and an old-school horn turned heads at the Truman Library Saturday morning as classic cars rolled into the parking lot for a throwback ...