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Henry Ford’s first Model T rolled off the assembly line in 1908, ushering in the age of the automobile and becoming a symbol of America's modernization. In Kansas City, the KC Chuggers are dedicated to keeping these old Fords running.
The sun is blazing overhead and a group of men are working beneath the shade of a tree, hunched over the engine of a truck. It’s a 1925 Model TT, to be exact. These guys are members of the KC Chuggers, a Model T club, who have gathered in Bucyrus, Kansas, to get it running again.

Industrialist Henry Ford based the one-ton Model TT on the Model T, but with a longer wheelbase and a heavier frame. Back in 1917, you could buy one for $600, and many were used on farms in the Midwest. This truck spent almost four decades buried in a garage just outside Topeka.

"My buddy was a hoarder and he piled so many boxes around this, it was like in a time capsule,” says owner Rick Taylor.