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ORIGINAL: mazdachris

I remember this about Henry.  "You can have any color you want, as long as it''s black".
Wonder when they started using different colors. 
Vg1 - Weren''t you there when that happened?    Just kidding.................

Nice.  VERYYY nice. 
What are you picking on us old guys for? Y''know, you''ll be where I''m at some day, then the foot will be on the other hand.    


Right.  Henry is often touted for using that phrase as a selling tool.  But, do you know when and why that phrase was coined?

When the Model T was first in production on a small scale they offered a number of different colors. A nice hunter green, yellow, beige, brown and a whole host of others. Basically you COULD get it in whatever color you wanted. All you had to do was order it from the DuPont color catalog. It''s the early "T''s" that originally were produced in  different colors, largely made-to-order as I understand it.

But as Ford got into the whole production line process era, it was decided that they could speed up the line and reduce costs both to manufacture the car, and also to potential buyers by only offering one std finish and one std cost.  And Dupont #99, gloss black was born. (No, not really.)
I believe that would''ve been around 1915, iirc?

"There is no tool you can buy that will replace experience." - Josh Mills, C.K.DeLuxe

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ORIGINAL: jaimie08mazda3

plus i stated my own opinion and i actually thought it was quite intelligent aha. but no people moving to japanese and ford gm and dalmer chrysler is hurtin from it