The Ford Barn

markwill · 01-12-2015, 04:05 AM

I've been a model T guy for 25 years and served as the President to the Model T Ford Club International, and in all those years the four seat open model T car was always called the Touring by Ford. However, when the second model A (yes, that's another mystery) came out in 1928 they called the four seat open car a Phaeton. The word Phaeton had been around since the curved dash cars prior to the advent of the model T in 1909, but Ford never used this word, as far as I know, during manufacturing of the model T.

Thus, does anyone know why Ford started using the older word, Phaeton, when the 1928 Ford was introduced?

I still have't found the answer as to why Ford went back to the top of the alphabet, A, with the release of the 1928 Ford either when clearly there was a Model A Ford built and sold in 1903.

Mark

01-12-2015, 04:05 AM	#1
markwill Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 16	Phaeton vs. Touring with the 1928 Ford I've been a model T guy for 25 years and served as the President to the Model T Ford Club International, and in all those years the four seat open model T car was always called the Touring by Ford. However, when the second model A (yes, that's another mystery) came out in 1928 they called the four seat open car a Phaeton. The word Phaeton had been around since the curved dash cars prior to the advent of the model T in 1909, but Ford never used this word, as far as I know, during manufacturing of the model T. Thus, does anyone know why Ford started using the older word, Phaeton, when the 1928 Ford was introduced? I still have't found the answer as to why Ford went back to the top of the alphabet, A, with the release of the 1928 Ford either when clearly there was a Model A Ford built and sold in 1903. Mark