Henry Ford and America’s First Pickup Truck
The USA has had its fair share of major achievements in motor vehicles, but few feel soaked in Red, White, and Blue as the creation of the American pickup truck. But if you’re interested in finding where it all started, we must dial it back a century. It was a time when President Calvin Coolidge was hunkered down in the White House, the Grand Ole Opry was celebrating its first year on the air, and sculptor Gutzon Borglum was planning up a “Shrine of Democracy” that would later be known as Mount Rushmore. That’s right, the market’s first pickup truck can be traced back to the Ford Model T Runabout made by Henry Ford in 1925.
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