World’s Oldest Running Car Up For Sale

The World’s Oldest Running Car Up For Sale – Still motoring on, a 1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trepardoux Dos-A-Dos Steam Runabout, has been put up for sale and is expected to fetch up to £1.6million when it is auctioned off early next month. The 127-year-old steam-powered vehicle was built in France in 1881 for the Count De Dion, 12 years before Henry Ford assembled his first car.

World’s Oldest Running Car Up For Sale – The car which takes 45 minutes to generate enough steam to drive, is powered by bits of paper, wood and coal. Whilst its thin metal wheels are wrapped with solid rubber. Auction house founder David Goodling said: ‘It feels like going 80 or 90 miles per hour in a newer automobile. And, by newer, I mean 1910.’

Expert motoring author David Burgess-Wise examined De Dion’s creation in 1995 before quickly affirming its historic credentials as the oldest functioning motor.

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