A Model T from the brass era.

Ford built the Model T from 1908 to 1927 and sold more than fifteen million of them — the car that made the automobile ordinary. A 1911 example like this one is an early, brass-era T: brass radiator shell and lamps, wooden artillery wheels, a hand crank where a starter button would later go.

Under the floor sits a 177-cubic-inch inline-four making around twenty horsepower, paired to Ford’s famous two-speed planetary transmission — shifted with the feet, not a stick. It will do something close to forty miles an hour and ask for very little to keep doing it.

The General T’s own story — where Kit found it, what’s original and what’s been brought back, and the miles it has covered since — is still being written down, and will live here as it’s told.

“Built to be driven. Still is.”