The company went bankrupt in 18 months, but Ford tried again in 1901 and launched the Henry Ford Company. However, he soon left the company and instead invested $28,000 to start the Ford Motor ...

The first car sold by the company was the Ford Model A on July 23, 1903. The car was a two-seater with a two-cylinder engine mounted under the seat, according to the Henry Ford Museum.

Zack Zeller’s Ford Model A was among the 5,000,000 that rolled off the Ford Motor Company’s assembly line. More than 500,000 antique Model A’s are known to still exist in the hands of ...

Horace E. Dodge and John F. Dodge, brothers and Detroit machine shop operators who later founded their own auto company (a precursor of the Chrysler Corp.), built engines for Ford until 1913.

One of those cars was piloted by the company's top racing driver, Frank Kulick, who continued racing highly modified Model Ts from 1910 to 1913. In 1912, he hit a speed just under 108 mph on a ...