Surviving Cars
- Between November 2005 and March 2006, the Mercedes-Benz Museum, built over the original site of DMG Stuttgart-Untertürkheim factory of 100 years ago, exhibits 13 original Mercedes Simplex units. The oldest one is the vehicle owned by Vanderbilt. There is also, an Argentine unit preserving its specifically enlarged wheels to drive over the muddy Pampas' roads. All 13 cars are functional, taking part in several annually nostalgic competitions such as the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run and Gordon Bennett Revival.
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“For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Karl Lagerfeld (b. 1938)