One of the first Ford cars ever created recently celebrated 100 years on the market. And to help make that a special event, 89 of these popular vehicles had a rally in Edinburgh last week.

Gathering 89 Ford Model Ts was a special event in itself. It was the largest gathering of these iconic cars ever in one place. Owners came from all over the region with their Model T to join the rally.

The Model T represents a piece of automotive history that helped shape the industry into what it is today. Henry Ford made this the first car that was affordable to the masses by introducing a less expensive way of producing them – the assembly line. Until then, cars were individually created by workers and it took a lot more time and more money to create each vehicle. The Model T, or Tin Lizzie as many people called it, reached the market in 1908 in Detroit, Michigan. Within months, it became the car that literally put “America on wheels.” I wonder where we’d be today had the Model T never come along.

The week-long rally started at the Bute House in Charlotte Square at 1:00 p.m. It wraps up this week at Kelso after travelling through places like Selkirk, St. Boswells, Peebles and other popular places throughout the region.