Workers at Ford’s Mahwah Assembly Plant in New Jersey put the finishing touches on a re-created 1909 Model T which was assembled on the plant’s lines alongside brand-new 1959 model year Fords. Some plant employees who had worked on the original Model T were in attendance.
While 15 million Model Ts were built during the “universal car’s” nearly two-decade production run, a plan to reproduce one from the car’s first model year proved more challenging. Ford embarked on a plan to build a 1909 Model T on a modern assembly line in 1958 – alongside then-new 1959 models – to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the car.