Oldest Running Car Fetches $4.62M

[Fred]

  This is the  oldest motor vehicle in the world that still runs. It was built one  year before Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler invented the internal  combustion engine.
 It fetched $4.62M at auction October 10th,  2011
   
 

[Ghoste]

My friend, I was there and you had to see it to believe it.  It was a very unique vehicle.

[Fred]

Apparently it reached the sale price in about 3 minutes. The opening bid was half a million.
I wonder how many owner's it's had.
How is it that you came to be there Ghoste?

[Ghoste]

I work for RM.

[Fred]

I see.
And I'm answering my own question here...............
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 Beach ?d'Elegance in  California.

[68X426]

My friend, I was there

1884? Wow.   


Bound for a public museum hopefully, not just a private collection.