Henry Ford, undoubtedly, helped to shape the automobile industry and the peoplescape of southeast Michigan with his offer of a $5 per day wage in 1914. It more than doubled the existing wages and led...
Had muscle cars continued uninterrupted throughout the Seventies, we would have seen all sorts of interesting progressions of Sixties tech, including the ball-stud Hemi, which Mac’s Motor City Garage...
Photo courtesy Ford Media. Henry Ford was a complex and contradictory man who left behind a sometimes perplexing legacy. And it certainly helps little that his biographers–himself included–have compl...
Photos courtesy The Henry Ford. One of Henry Ford’s odder inventions—and one that certainly challenges the notion he only ever wanted to build Model Ts into perpetuity—will get its moment in the spot...
Photo by Chris Dobbins. We all have a favorite automotive tall tale or conspiracy theory we cling to over the years, but sometimes they’re just plain wrong and need debunked. Though we didn’t hear it...
All photos are frame grabs from video below. Brought to you by the folks at Ford Motor Company: A brief history of the automobile’s impact on American life. Part III leads with an overview of Henry F...
Pretty much every event in the 20th century can be linked to an automobile of some sort. Take, for instance, the 1930 Studebaker recently displayed at a car show in India: It carries its “killer” rep...
Image via Google Street View, circa 2011. Henry Ford might have built some of the largest automobile factories around the world – towering, sprawling examples of industrial might – but his last facto...
Forbes this week ran an article discussing what happens when nobody wants your parents’ stuff, and though it doesn’t address collector cars, we know well that the old car hobby is a generational one,...
Images courtesy Edsel & Eleanor Ford House It’s hard to overstate the importance of Edsel Ford to The Motor City. His father Henry may have put the world on wheels, and his son Henry II may have save...
This film could rightly have been subtitled “An Ode to the Development of the Automobile and its Positive Impact on American Life.” Yes, another one of those: But hear us out. Funded by Ford Motor Co...
While researching the story on the Holden collection auction earlier this week, we came across this short video on the design and engineering of the first Holden. It’s a story pretty much every Austr...
1935 Miller Ford V-8 Indy Car. Photos by Maggie Pinke, courtesy Mecum Auctions. In 1935, genius race car constructor Harry Miller entered into a deal with Preston Tucker and the Ford Motor Company to...
Photo by John Butte. At the 1939 World’s Fair, Darlene and her friends had their first opportunity to see and experience one of the newest technologies: television. Some of the six girls (Regina Fenn...