The world’s oldest surviving Original car? ( UPDATE: Marcus 1888 ! )

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This is Carl Benz on his Patent-Motorwagen Typ III, together with Friedrich von Fischer, his business partner with Benz & Cie. The Benz Patent Motor Car is considered to be the world’s first automobile. The Science Museum in London owns an 1888 model, which they acquired in 1913 and which is retained in its original condition. The acquisition was handled by Mr. E. A. Forward from the Science Museum. In a letter written in April 1913, he advised the museum board to buy the car: “This car is a valuable historical relic, and I regard it as a great find. […] I should not have thought it possible to obtain one anywhere, and am very much surprised to find one in this country.” Forward very accurately identified the car’s position in Benz and automotive history and arrived at the following conclusion: “The work of Carl Benz, in the development of the modern motor car, was so important, equal in fact to that of Daimler himself, that we should be fully justified in acquiring an example of this first type of vehicle.”
(text and images courtesy DaimlerChrysler)


UPDATE by Michael Hortig:"The really oldest original surviving car, seems to be the "Marcus motorwagen" in the Vienna technical museum, which sometimes was thought to be built 1875, later correctly dated 1888. It has never been restored and instead of the roger Benz really total original. The 1888 Hamel car has been restored recently, same the some years younger french Lenoir."... (before someone sends in the 18-century Cugnot; today we only want to learn about combustion engine cars)

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