Henry Ford built a car with an exterior body made of soybean plastic in the 1940s ... Mr. Overlay recalls that the first time Mr. Ford struck it with an axe the deck lid cracked and the axe head ...

DETROIT – On June 4, 1896, after years of experimentation and tinkering, a 32-year-old Henry Ford completed his first automobile. The Quadricycle was built by hand by Ford at his home, and its 2 ...

Finding first-generation Ford Mustangs in barns is quite common nowadays, but most of them are mundane cars with regular specs. From time to time, however, classic car prospectors stumble upon ...

The 80-acre living museum features original buildings from Wright brothers, Edison, and will soon add MLK's Selma planning ...

While Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company helped shaped modern car production, it wasn't one of his cars that was the first mass-produced car in America.

But Ford, who certainly stands out among those pioneers, wasn’t the first person to drive a gas-powered car "of his own making," as it's been described, on the streets of Detroit.

My great-grandfather once said of the first car he ever built: "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, ... "The First Henry Ford: A Study in Personality and Business." ...