For Sale: World’s Oldest Car
Just a few weeks after the world’s oldest camera went under the hammer for a princely £391,000, the world’s oldest working car is about to hit the auction block.
The steam-powered De Dion-Bouton et Trepardoux, nicknamed ‘La Marquise’, was built in 1884 - a year before a pair of fellows called Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz built their first, experimental gasoline-powered cars.
However, you can forget nipping down the off-licence quick before it closes since this thing needs to be fuelled by wood, coal and paper and takes at least half an hour to build up enough steam to get rolling.
Top speed is 38mph which probably feels like 100mph in a wooden wheelbarrow on cobblestones and will most likely make your teeth shatter.
Yours for around £750,000-£1,000,000 when it goes under the hammer in California with Gooding & Co this August.
Yeah, but is it as cool as the car grill or the world’s first see-through car?-Martin Lynch
Original post by Ryan