Convinced by this success, the race driver Barney Oldfield, who named this new Ford model "999" in honor of the fastest locomotive of the day, took the car around the country, making the Ford brand known throughout the United States.
Uvjeren tim uspjehom, poznati vozač utrka Barney Oldfield naziva novi model "999" odavajući počast trkaćoj lokomotivi tog vremena i predstavlja ga diljem države, čineći marku Ford poznatom u cijelom SAD-u.