Called on by the widow of a collector who wanted to rid his garage of the scrap metal that was there, the members of a German vintage car club had the happy surprise to discover a strange 3-wheeled car dating from the origins of the automobile.

Examined by experts, it would be older than the Benz usually considered the oldest of cars with internal combustion engines.

The argument is that its chassis is made of wood, while that of the Benz is made of steel.

To decide between the specialists who do not all agree, the car will be the subject of a Carbon 14 dating, in order to be able to date it as precisely as possible.

A treatment that was, for example, applied to Ötzi, the prehistoric man found frozen in 1991 in the Alps. 

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