In Popular Media
- John Steinbeck's Cannery Row contains a passage about the Model T:
"Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and aesthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation. Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than about the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears than the solar system of stars. With the Model T, part of the concept of private property disappeared. Pliers ceased to be privately owned and a tire iron belonged to the last man who had picked it up. Most of the babies of the period were conceived in Model T Fords and not a few were born in them. The theory of the Anglo Saxon home became so warped that it never quite recovered."
- In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, where Henry Ford is regarded as a messianic figure, graveyard crosses have been truncated to T's.
- Comedy teams of the 1930s, like Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy and The Three Stooges, were driving the Model T in many of their films.
- In Pixar's 2006 animated film Cars, Lizzie is a 1923 Model T operating a souvenir store on U.S. Route 66
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