{"id":926,"date":"2007-09-03T22:51:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T12:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=926"},"modified":"2007-09-03T23:22:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T13:22:13","slug":"worlds-oldest-car-sells-for-us35m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s oldest car sells for US$3.5m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture yourself behind the tiller of a record breaking racing car &#8211; 123 years old and still capable of 60 kilometres per hour. This deDion-Bouton et Trepardoux recently went up for auction and sold for US$3,520,000. It&#8217;s quite a catch and it runs quietly on steam. The car was built in 1884<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image924\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/ddbt-car.jpg\" alt=\"DeDion-Bouton et Trepardoux 1884\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image925\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/ddbt-car1.jpg\" alt=\"DeDion-Bouton et Trepardoux 1884\" \/> (photos from Gooding &#038; Co)<\/p>\n<p>You can see a <a href=\"http:\/\/goodingco.com\/clips\/de_dion\/lg\/index.html\"><strong>video of the car in action here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image927\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/ddbt-car2.jpg\" alt=\"DeDion-Bouton et Trepardoux 1884\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The downdraft chimney is not unlike the 1889 Serpollet-Peugeot which suggests that the earlier car influenced the later Serpollet design.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image499\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/serpolletrearview.jpg\" alt=\"Serpollet steam tricar\" \/> (photo &#8211; Everard 2006)<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture yourself behind the tiller of a record breaking racing car &#8211; 123 years old and still capable of 60 kilometres per hour. This deDion-Bouton et Trepardoux recently went up for auction and sold for US$3,520,000. It&#8217;s quite a catch and it runs quietly on steam. The car was built in 1884 (photos from Gooding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-journal","category-steam","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}