A 100-year-old Ford Model T with a lively history is for sale in Windsor.

After driving the relic for 12 years, car enthusiast Wayne Dumaine is selling the “museum piece.”

“I’ve enjoyed it for 12 years and I think it’s time that somebody else [has] some fun with the car,” said Dumaine.

The 1924 touring sedan was built in Detroit but assembled in Florida before being shipped to Uruguay. The car stayed there until 1935 when it was used in a bank robbery in Argentina, according to Dumaine.

He says federal police shot at the robbers, leaving behind two bullet holes in the car — one in the driver’s side door and one in the floor of the passenger side.

The Model T spent over 30 years in an impound lot in Argentina, until two Canadians visiting the lot found the vehicle and brought it north, according to a written history of the car in Dumaine’s possession that indicates the story was uncovered through an appraisal.

Dumaine says being impounded likely helped preserve the vehicle from the elements. “The hot sun has baked most of the lacquer on the car, but it did preserve the hickory wheels and the engine components and the rest of the car,” said Dumaine.

And while the car does run, in its hundred-year history, the car has never been restored, according to Dumaine — who hopes to keep it that way. He won’t sell the car to anyone who wants to restore it.

“[It] takes 60 years to crack that lacquer on this paint. It can’t be replicated. It just … has to be preserved,” said Dumaine.

While Dumaine has been restoring cars since the 1970s, he says this Model T is the most fun car he’s ever owned. He took it to a 150th birthday celebration for Henry Ford, plenty of car shows — and even gave Santa a ride in it once.

Wherever the destination, Dumaine says the car never fails to garner lots of excitement.

“People take pictures, they wave,” said Dumaine. “Quite often, I come home and my cheeks are sore from smiling so much.”

As much as he’s enjoyed it, Dumaine says it’s time for the car to find its next home.

“I’m 70 years old, and, you know, I think that maybe somebody else would enjoy the car as much as I have.”

The asking price is $19,000.