Oldest Car
There is an oddity in Pebble Beach, California. The oldest car, at least the oldest that still runs will be sold at an auction there. Built for Count De Dion of France, this car has only had two owners. Count De Dion was one of the founders of the manufacturing company.
The car was built in France in 1884, about a year before Gottlieb Daimler and Otto Benz of Germany built their first experimental gasoline-powered cars (The two were working independently of one another.) Henry Ford, the man many Americans mistakenly believe invented the automobile, built his first car 12 years after this one.
I doubted that this car was older than the one invented by Henry Ford. That is until I read that the curator of transportation for the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich., agreed that the De Dion-Bouton is, quite possibly, the oldest running automobile. I guess if the curator, Bob Casey says it’s true, I will believe it.
10 planets, not the inventor of the auto, what will be next.
