{"id":3422,"date":"2011-10-11T09:27:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T16:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2011-10-11T09:33:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T16:33:02","slug":"world%e2%80%99s-oldest-motor-car-sells-for-4-62-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=3422","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s oldest motor car sells for US$4.62-million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1884-De-Dion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3423\" title=\"1884 De Dion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1884-De-Dion-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1884-De-Dion-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/1884-De-Dion.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The world\u2019s oldest running motor car, a historic <strong><em>1884 De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout<\/em><\/strong>, has entered the history books, selling for an impressive US$4.62-million before a packed house at RM Auctions\u2019 Hershey, Pennsylvania sale on October 7, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The impressive sale price more than doubled its original pre-sale estimate and represents a new world record for an early motor car sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioned by French entrepreneur, Count de Dion and named \u2018<em>La Marquise<\/em>\u2019 after his mother, the 127-year-old vehicle drew a standing ovation from the audience as it drove onto RM\u2019s Hershey auction stage. Attracting a starting bid of $500,000 and immediately jumping to $1-million, bidding moved swiftly to applause from the crowd, with the gavel eventually falling at the extraordinary $4.2-million price.<\/p>\n<p>The final sales price of $4.62-million includes 10 per cent buyers\u2019 premium.<\/p>\n<p>The new owner joins an elite list of just five collectors to have claimed ownership of <em>La Marquise<\/em> over its well-documented history. In addition to being the world\u2019s oldest running motor car, <em>La Marquise\u2019s<\/em> impressive provenance includes participation in the first automobile race in 1887, where it reached a top speed of 37 mph on the straights, along with a double award at the famed 1997 Pebble Beach Concours d\u2019Elegance.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <em>La Marquise<\/em> has also successfully completed four London to Brighton runs in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s oldest running motor car, a historic 1884 De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout, has entered the history books, selling for an impressive US$4.62-million before a packed house at RM Auctions\u2019 Hershey, Pennsylvania sale on October 7, 2011. The impressive sale price more than doubled its original pre-sale estimate and represents a<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=3422\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collector-hobby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3429,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}