The Ford Model F is an
automobile
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produced by
Ford
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* Ford Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford
* Ford (crossing), a shallow crossing on a river
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. It was a development of the
Model A and
Model C, but was larger, more modern, and more luxurious. Production started in 1905 and ended in 1906 after about 1,000 were made. It was built at the
Ford Piquette Avenue Plant
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. It was a four-seater
phaeton with
running board
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s and a side-entrance
tonneau
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standard. It was priced from
[Ford Motor Company Newspaper Advertisement from 1905. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ford-Model-F-and-Doctors-Car.jpg] to ;
by contrast, the
Colt Runabout
The Colt Runabout was an American brass era, Brass-era automobile, built in Yonkers, New York, in 1907.Clymer, Floyd. ''Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877-1925'' (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.63. by William Mason Turner.
It was a ...
was $1,500, the
FAL was $1,750,
[Clymer, p.104.] the
Cole 30 $1,500,
the
Enger 40 $2,000,
and the
Lozier
The Lozier Motor Company was a brass era producer of luxury automobiles in the United States. The company produced automobiles from 1900 to 1918, in Plattsburgh, New York and from 1910, at Detroit, Michigan. History
Lozier Motor Company was fo ...
Light Six Metropolitan $3,250.
[Clymer, p.111.] All had green bodies.
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Cars introduced in 1905
Brass Era vehicles
Cars powered by boxer engines
Motor vehicles manufactured in the United States
Cars powered by 2-cylinder engines
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