Heaven on Four Wheels.... The Automobile ~ You can paint it any color, so long as it's black~ <Tab/>Vroom...!!!! By no means has it been confirmed that Henry Ford ever said, "You can paint it any color...," but the phrase has survived for three quarters of a century and does indicate something about America's beloved Model T: its "steadfastness," and its enduring and appealing "sameness." Cars are essentially treated like the …
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…era His dream to, " Build motorcar for the great multitude," vividly became reality and transformed the life of the middle class most dramatically. Yet the methods that Henry Ford developed for producing his car so efficiently advanced that very industrialization. Change was crying out during this period of time because people could no longer depend on slow and unreliable sources of transportation. Like its inventor, the Model T represented both high ideals and hard practicalities.