Hagerty Ford Floorboard Hoax Article.

[ivaldes1]

Hagerty has an article on 3 Urban Myths and Hoaxes including Ford Model T parts crates floor boards:
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotiv ... cc068134c4

"...In reality, not much of that story is true, although Ford did use a lot of wood in making the Model T. It’s estimated that each Model T used about 100 board feet of lumber—for the floorboard, toeboard, dashboard, spokes for the “artillery” style wheels, and a wooden frame for the body’s steel panels.

Also, after the Dodge brothers (who were his primary supplier) parted with Ford, Ford Motor Company developed into one of the most vertically integrated manufacturing firms in history. Eventually, FoMoCo made its own steel from ore mined from its own mines, its own glass, and Henry even tried growing his own rubber trees in the Amazon. There was a period when Ford didn’t have that many outside suppliers. Because of his need for wood Ford owned about a half-million acres of forest in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, along with three lumber mills as well as a large industrial facility in Iron Mountain for milling that wood into usable parts. If anyone was making wood crates for Ford parts, it was Ford. Those wood crates, however, were not recycled into floorboards. There was a special department at the Rouge facility for recycling that wood into other crates."

[Daisy Mae]

One true story though, ever the innovator, and always looking for efficiency and utilization of scrap, it was Ford's quest to find a use for wood scrap from his mills...and so was born Kingsford charcoal...
Originally marketed under the Ford name, it was later changed to Kingsford in honor of Edward Kingsford, the man who helped Ford secure ownership of forest land to develop and feed his mills.

[John Codman]

I wasn't 14 minutes worth of interested. You can't make a new car out of used parts, so the floorboard hoax is just that.

[Kerry]

"You can't make a new car out of used parts" well not really true, the TD2000 was factory built with a Nissan engine, when Nissan could no longer supply, they opted to fit reconditioned engines, and when the company sold out to a Malaysian company, they used new Toyota running gear.