Question: How did the phrase “ramblin’ wreck from Georgia Tech” originate?
Answer: Floyd Field, a professor and dean at Georgia Tech in the early 1900s, owned an original 1916 Ford Model T that was infamous on campus. The student newspaper, The Technique, dubbed it a “Ramblin’ Wreck” in 1927, and the name stuck, inspiring the school’s official fight song, “Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech.”