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MawMaw
10-10-2011, 12:54 PM
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World's 'Oldest Running Motor Car' Sells for $4.62 Million


Published October 10, 2011
| FoxNews.com


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/10/10/worlds-oldest-running-motor-car-sells-for-462-million/#ixzz1aOjmXZe0

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A vehicle purported to be the world’s oldest running motor car has sold for $4.62 million dollars.

At the RM Auctions in Hershey, Pennsylvania this past Saturday, the steam-powered [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/09/26/worlds-second-oldest-functional-car-heading-to-auction/"]1884 De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout (http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/leisure/2011/09/26/1884-de-dion-bouton-et-trepardoux-dos-dos-steam-runabout/) attracted a winning bid of $4.2 million, more than twice what it was expected to fetch. A 10 percent fee was added to the price, adding $420,000 to the grand total.

Dordt
10-10-2011, 07:15 PM
I think it's absurd that people pay that kind of money for a piece of metal.
But it's all based on greed because that thing will be sold for a handsome profit a few years from now.

Just think what that kind of money could do to help people in need, such as in the horn of Africa. Or it could be used to bring the gospel to a lost world.