Model T trivia Henry Ford's favorite Model T joke: A man wanted his Model T buried with him because it had gotten him out of every hole he had gotten into. The Model T's frequent appearances in pop culture were excellent publicity for the automaker. Ford spent little on Model T advertising. In 1914, Ford's 13,000 employees built about 300,000 cars. In that same year, 299 other automakers, with a combined total of 66,350 employees, produced only about 280,000 cars. The Model T was named Car of the Century in 1999 by a group of 126 jurors from 32 nations.
In a 12-by-18-foot corner on the third floor of Ford Motor Co.'s Piquette Avenue factory in Detroit, the plans to put the world on wheels were set in motion early in the 20th century.
