You could almost see a grin on the face of the statue of Sam Rayburn Friday afternoon when the Lone Star T's came driving up to the Sam Rayburn Library and Museum.

At the head of the pack was a 1916 Model T Sportster.  Faithfully following were about a dozen breath-taking Model Ts, one Model A and the trailer lovingly known as the "buzzard wagon" loaded down with one Model T that ran into mechanical difficulty between the metroplex and Bonham.

The Lone Star T's are a club of Model T enthusiasts from Dallas, Fort Worth, Garland and several other cities in the metroplex and they stopped off in Bonham on their way to their weekend destination, Paris.

The car owners are more than a little proud of their historic vehicles and they even stopped by Anderson Elementary School in Allen, Texas to share their knowledge of Model Ts with inquiring young minds.

One class was put on the spot when a gray-haired, distinguished driver stood beside his vehicle and the class had to guess which one was older.  Model Ts were built from 1908 to 1927.  One student probably didn't win any brownie points when he turned to his teacher, who happened to be a much later model, and asked if she was older than the car.

In 1924, Ford offered six different Models Ts to pick from.  Choices included Roadster, Touring, Tudor Sedan, Fordor Sedan, Coupe and Truck.  The Touring version was the most popular and the price tag on a car without an electric starter or a spare tire was $290.  Tack on a spare tire and an electric starter and the price shot all the way up to $380.

Ford's vision for an economical, dependable vehicle spread around the globe.  Although thought of as "all-American" by many people today, Model T's were also built in Canada and England.  As a matter of fact, one of the cars in this caravan was manufactured from scratch in Canada.

Model T production topped out in 1923 when 2,090,000 were built.  Crunch the numbers and that means about four cars per minute were rolling off the assembly line.

Over 15,000,000 Model T's were turned out during this amazing machine's 19-year production run and an estimated 200,000 Model T's are still in operation.

The Lone Star T's say their cars cruise along at about 35 mph, propelled by a three-liter, four-cylinder power plant that generates approximately 20 horsepower.

And, for the folks in Bonham that saw these rolling works of art on Friday and the people around Paris that get a chance to look them over all weekend, the most impressive thing about the Model T isn't a statistic.  The most impressive thing about the Model T is that these machines are still pretty enough to stop a clock...or maybe even turn back time 80 years.