[BITList] World's Oldest Running Car !!!

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for the steam enthusiasts
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                World's Oldest Running Car Fetches

                $4.62 Million

                World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

                World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

                *Oldest Running Car Fetches $4.62M at RM Auction in
                Hershey, Pennsylvania*

                *October 10 2011 at 10:05am*

                By Motoring Staff

                IOL mot pic oct 10 De Dion 1

                /./

                *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
            fourLondon-to-Brighton runs and collected a double gold at
            the 1997 Pebble Beach*

            *d'Elegance in California.*

            *IOL mot pic oct10 De Dion 3*

            *Count de Dion winning the first ever motor race.*

            /World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million/

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million

World's oldest running car sells for US$4.6 million


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