Grants: Henry Ford Innovation Institute, Innovation Institute Grant Amount: $2, 700, 000 Grant Purpose: – Leverage the Henry Ford Health System’s intellectual assets to solidify an entrepreneurial ecosystem and brand in Detroit and Southeast Michigan. It is really powerful to use design as a means to creatively solve problems in such a serious field like…
Moderator: Lauren Pheeney Della Monica Participants on Panel: Sam Cady, Diana Horowitz, and Karen Kitchel Topic: The Environment in Landscape Painting Artists will address what the physical world means in the paintings, the meaning of representations of the natural world, and attention to natural resources in the land. Bios: Lauren P. Della Monica Sam Cady…
For a couple who originally tied the knot and were whisked away as husband and wife in their 1929 Model A roadster, what better way to celebrate 50 years of that blissful wedded unity than giving themselves a “new” 1929 Ford?! That’s precisely what Donald and Karen Greenlee did for their recent 50th, but instead…
The Henry Ford Early College is a unique five year early college program that began in fall of 2007. Students will have the opportunity to attain both a high school diploma and a two-year Associate Degree in five years with little or no cost to the student or parent. The Henry Ford Early College program…
At Bert’s Model A Ford Center, we have the most complete overall selection of Model A Parts anywhere, as we stock all the new reproduction parts in our 22000 square foot warehouse, but we also stock the largest supply of original parts ANYWHERE!!! ALL we do is Model A Fords- we don’t try to sell…
There’s perhaps no single person more associated with the automobile than Henry Ford. Ford is credited with bringing the car to the masses, which transformed driving from a pastime for the rich into an integral part of daily life for millions of people. Just imagine what the world would look like without the mass adoption…
Ford introduced the one ton, heavy duty, TT truck in 1917. It was the most radically different Ford Model T variant ever produced. While its used the same 20 HP engine and transmission, it’s chassis was 25 inches longer than the standard Model T, and was beefier, too. TTs had a different rear end, with…
Keeling Gaines Pulliam Jr. and Charles Ellsworth McCormick of Lexington, Kentucky, and Morris Julian Crutcher (Maury Crutcher) of Detroit, Michigan, all graduates of the University of Kentucky at Lexington Mechanical Engineering program and members of the Gamma Iota chapter of the Sigma Nu Fraternity, organized the Mercury Body Corporation in early 1920. In March of…
Build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so…
C.R Patterson, Born Slave, Built Automobiles Before Henry Ford Some of the finest buggies made in the late 1800s came out of a small, black-owned company in Ohio. Charles Rich Patterson’s Company later made motor vehicles, and history, by founding the country’s only African-American-owned automobile manufacturing company. To hear Tom Smith tell it, had Patterson…
Henry Ford Fact File Biography: Lifespan: 1863 – 1947 *** Full Name: Henry Ford *** Occupation: American Industrialist *** Date of Birth: He was born on July 30, 1863 *** Place of Birth: Henry Ford was born in Greenfield Township, Michigan, America *** Family background: His father was William Ford and he was born in…
In 1908, the Ford Motor Company introduced the world to the Model T. The rest, as they say, is automotive history. In over a century it’s safe to say cars and technology have taken a dramatic turn. From the simplicity of the Model T to self-driving Teslas, it’s clear the future is now. But two…
Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk regaled Twitter users Friday with updates on the Model 3, the all-electric sedan that the Silicon Valley car maker hopes to sell to the masses by the end of the year, as well as plans for more new Tesla cars. Over several tweets Friday, Musk disclosed plans to create versions…
Alan Kahan is a longtime street rodder and a longtime friend of STREET RODDER. He recently cruised by the offices in his 1929 Ford Model A roadster. The offices are only a few minutes from Alan’s house, so this trip was a breeze compared to the cross-country treks that have been made over the past…
Have you ever wondered how an automatic transmission works? I did, so I looked it up and then designed this desktop model. It has six forward speeds and one reverse. Real automatic transmissions have a hydraulic or electrical system that engages different clutches and brakes to shift gears depending on the driving situation. With this…
A CROSS the ditch in En-Zed, Karen Hay is a bit of a drag racing celebrity. She was dubbed the Queen of Speed in 2014 when her Brogie-built 1927 Model T roadster ran 6.629@205.52mph at Tauranga to smash the NZ women’s drag racing record previously held by Faye Grant. SM caught up with Karen at…
One of the first things you notice about this model A is the burly looking, horizontally mounted, semi-truck stacks that run below its Tudor body. There’s a good reason for that-owner Tom Hentschell wanted his latest hot rod to have a unique signature, something that would be different and also act as an attention grabber.…
Ramp Travel Index (RTI) ramps are something of a bench-racing platform for off-roaders to compare suspension flex between different trucks of different size. So when a 1916 Ford Model T arrived at the Flex for Food event in Wichita, Kansas, there as clearly only one mission for the Model T owner: outshine everyone with 100-year-old…
I’ve accepted that I have an acute talent for losing hideous money on cars, but this scenario is extensive and ends in just plain blackmail. Let’s go back to 1998 when I decide to build a Rat rod ’28-’29 Model A roadster pickup after scoring a complete, bone-stock rolling chassis and drivetrain that a neighbor…
More than half the world’s cars were nearly identical Model T’s during the mid 1920s. The car was introduced with a price tag of $850. The Model T later sold for as little as $260, because Ford passed along the savings from his production innovations. The car that established a mass market for automobiles, the…