On October 1, 1908, Ford Motor Company unveiled its first Model T. Henry Ford’s engineers developed a system of interchangeable parts that permitted unskilled workers on an assembly line to put together a full car. To keep things simple, all cars were black. Initially the car ran on either gasoline or hemp fuel. The Model T was enormously popular as a car “regular people could afford.” By the mid-1920s, customers were looking for cars with style, and the last Model T rolled off the assembly line on May 26, 1927.
