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This is the oldest surviving Ford motor car in the world: a 1903 Model A, which sported a price tag of $880, as well as $30-worth of options. This car is even more interesting, considering the fact that it predates the adoption of Henry Ford’s most well-known addition to the automotive world: the moving assembly line, having been built in a large assembly hall at the Mack Avenue plant.
This particular Model A was ordered on July 13th, 1903, by Herbert L. McNary, a butter maker from Iowa, and it has only had a total of five owners in its 109 years in existence. It is powered by a two-cylinder engine, which displaces 1668 cc, putting out 8 hp. The car has two forward gears, and reverse, and was capable of reaching a top speed of 45 km/h (28 mph).
Only some 1,750 cars were built between 1903 and 1903, and this particular example is expected to fetch somewhere in the region of $300,000 to $500,000 when RM Auctions will auction it off at the Antique Automobile Club of America event, held in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Only some 1,750 cars were built between 1903 and 1903, and this particular example is expected to fetch somewhere in the region of $300,000 to $500,000 when RM Auctions will auction it off at the Antique Automobile Club of America event, held in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
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