Tag: Henry Ford

Exactly 50 years ago, Henry Ford II put a special man in charge of a very special mission—to win the world’s most famous endurance races in Le Mans, Daytona and Indianapolis.

There’s no doubt that Henry Ford was a visionary, innovator and even a tiny part mad-scientist. His contributions to the world will live forever and surely go down as the one of the all-time greats.

Henry Ford is one of the most important people in American history, full stop. You’re on a Ford blog, so you surely know why, but what else do you know about him?

Clyde Barrow loved the Ford V8 so much that he wrote Henry Ford a note of congratulations for assembling such a fine machine.

There was a time long ago where if you went to a Ford dealership to purchase a new automobile, it would only come in the color black. That’s right. You could only get a black Ford.

When you’ve been around for more than a century, like Ford has, you’re going to have your share of failures. Not everything is going to be a runaway success. A place called Fordlandia certainly wasn’t.

It’s hard to think of a manufacturing company, especially automotive, that has even survived 111 years, let alone innovate during all the years. But the Ford Motor Company is one of those companies.