Harold Baggott was just 10 when he learned to drive a Model T.
At age 101, Baggott showed his great-grandchildren a new entry in the Ford Motor Co. alphabet: the battery-powered Mustang Mach-E.
Baggott, a former coach company proprietor in England, took a drive in a 2021 Mach-E as well as a 1915 Model T at the British Motor Museum near his home this month.
“Since the age of 10, I’ve retained my interest in motoring and today find myself interested in the switch to electrification following the government phasing out the traditional combustion engines I’m used to,” he said in a Ford news release. “I have reminisced about my driving history with the Model T and seen what the future has in store. It was exciting to get behind the wheel of what I expect to see my great-grandchildren will be driving.”
As a child, Baggott got his first experience behind the wheel in his family’s milkman’s delivery vehicle. He received his license in 1936, the year they were introduced, and paid £100 for his first car, a Ford 8 Popular, in 1937.
Since then, his family has owned 20 Fords, and their coach company had a fleet of 140 vehicles converted from Ford commercial chassis.
