<VV> FW: : World's Oldest Running Car Fetches $4.62M

[Mike Jacobi]

Yes, but does it have a unibody like the Corvair!!!

Mike in Michigan


Subject:  World's Oldest Running Car Fetches $4.62M
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>>> Oldest Running Car Fetches $4.62M
>>> October 10 2011 at 10:05am
>>> By Motoring Staff
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>>> This is the oldest motor vehicle car in the world that still runs.
>>> It was built one year before Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler invented the
>>> internal combustion engine.
>>> The world's oldest running motor vehicle has been sold at auction for an
>>> astonishing $4.62 million (R36.5-million), more than double the pre-sale
>>> estimate, as two bidders chased the price up in a three-minute bidding war.
>>> The 1884 De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout drew a
>>> standing ovation as it was driven up onto the stage at Friday's RM Auction
>>> in Hershey, Pennsylvania - to prove that this 127-year-old car really does
>>> run! - and attracted a starting bid of $500 000, which was immediately
>>> doubled to $1 million.
>>> Encouraged by the applauding crowd, the bidding went swiftly up to $4.2
>>> million (R33 million) - 4.62 million (R36.5 million) including the 10
>>> percent commission - before the car was knocked down to a unnamed buyer.
>>> The Dos-a-Dos (Back-to-Back) Steam Runabout was built in 1884 by George
>>> Bouton and Charles-Armand Trepardoux for French entrepreneur Count de Dion,
>>> who named it 'La Marquise' after his mother.
>>> In 1887, with De Dion at the tiller, it won the world's first ever motor
>>> race (it was the only entrant to make the start line!) covering the 32km
>>> from the Pont de Neuilly in Paris to Versailles and back in one hour and 14
>>> minutes (an average of 25.9km/h) and, according to contemporary reports,
>>> hitting a breathtaking 60km/h on the straights!
>>> La Marquise has only had four owners, remaining in one family for 81 years,
>>> and has been restored twice, once by the Doriol family and again by British
>>> collector Tom Moore in the early 1990's.  Since then, it has taken part in
>>> four London-to-Brighton runs and collected a double gold at the 1997 Pebble
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>>>  d'Elegance in California.
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>>> Count de Dion winning the first ever motor race.
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