We hear a lot of anger from readers about the neglect and loss of America's automobile history. We share it, too. Things are being lost that can never be recovered. The Big Three have only ever been halfhearted, at best, about conserving their heritage. When they could have afforded to do something, they didn't, and those days are past now.

So to my mind, there are no small successes. Every piece we save is important. Henry Ford's Piquette Plant especially so. In a very real way, the place where the Model T was developed is perhaps the most important single site in our automotive history. As Steven Rossi explains, Ford and the engineers who met in an "experimental room" at Piquette developed a car that "started a process of fundamental change in the economic and social structure of the entire world."

Now there's a 10-year project underway to complete the building's restoration.

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