The most famous car ever built was only offered in one color. ㅤ Black. ㅤ But what most people don't know is it didn't actually start that way. ㅤ See when @ford started building the Model T in 1908, it actually came in red, gray, green, and blue. ㅤ But when they opened their state of the art assembly line in 1914, suddenly they only offered black. ㅤ Ford's new assembly line was actually so good, it turns out the slowest part of the process was literally watching paint dry. ㅤ So they developed a new paint formula that dried more quickly, and since it only came in black, they didn't have to keep track of multiple colors. This made production even quicker. ㅤ The Highland Park assembly plant brought production times down from twelve and a half hours per car, to ninety three minutes. ㅤ Since the Model T was now cheaper and faster to make, Ford could build more than anyone else. In fact they made two million Model Ts in 1923 alone. ㅤ Which to this day holds the record for the highest annual p...