Just weeks before the Model T celebrates its 107th birthday, one of very first 1909 Model T Touring cars has come home.
DETROIT, MI -- Just weeks before the Model T celebrates its 107th birthday, one of very first 1909 Model T Touring cars has come home.
"This automobile was assembled and shipped to Providence, Rhode Island on Aug. 4, 1909 with serial number 8,367," says a statement issued by the Piquette Plant. "The Model T, one of the first 12,000 built at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, was donated by the Elmo Wurdeman family from Silver Springs, Maryland."
Ford began manufacturing the Model T, considered the first automobile the middle class could reasonably afford, in 1908. The first batch off the line were given a 1909 model year.
Henry Ford build The Ford Piquette Avenue plant in 1904.
The Piquette plant, considered the "second home of the Ford Motor Company," is the birthplace of the Model T and prior cars, like the Models B, C, F, K, N, R and S.
Henry Ford had secret rooms within the fast growing facility that served as think-tanks to engineer some of the great modern marvels of car manufacturing.
Transformed from industrial center to historical auto archive, the Piquette Plant Museum, 461 Piquette in Detoit, is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.
A Model T birthday celebration is being held from noon to 5 p.m. on Sept. 27.