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Question: How many Pre-WWI cars are in GT?
Next question: how many "cursed" cars are in GT?
Answers: None. That's what.
Above car was driven by Franz Ferdinand (not the rock band!) and his wife on 29 June 1914.
I'll spare you the history lesson: Franz was heir to Austro-Hungarian throne. He was assassinated on that fateful day and that led to World War One.
Some of the horror of that moment seems to have remained alive in the Graf & Stift, because all who owned the car thereafter had their lives cut short or were injured. In the next dozen years, the automobile of Franz Ferdinand was owned by fifteen private parties, was involved in six accidents and took the lives of thirteen people. The Austrian general Potiorek, for instance, who bought the Graf & Stift and after his defeat at the Battle of Valjevo and a trip to Vienna for more disgrace, began having mental problems and died insane in an asylum.
You can find more here:
http://athingforcars.com/autos/franz-ferdinands-cursed-car-graf-stift-1914/
Needless to say, I want to drive this car. Ghoulish maybe, but trying something like this with narrow tyres and 4 cylinder, FWD architecture as well as its history really intrigues me.
And it only made 32 PS when new.
Next question: how many "cursed" cars are in GT?
Answers: None. That's what.
Above car was driven by Franz Ferdinand (not the rock band!) and his wife on 29 June 1914.
I'll spare you the history lesson: Franz was heir to Austro-Hungarian throne. He was assassinated on that fateful day and that led to World War One.
Some of the horror of that moment seems to have remained alive in the Graf & Stift, because all who owned the car thereafter had their lives cut short or were injured. In the next dozen years, the automobile of Franz Ferdinand was owned by fifteen private parties, was involved in six accidents and took the lives of thirteen people. The Austrian general Potiorek, for instance, who bought the Graf & Stift and after his defeat at the Battle of Valjevo and a trip to Vienna for more disgrace, began having mental problems and died insane in an asylum.
You can find more here:
http://athingforcars.com/autos/franz-ferdinands-cursed-car-graf-stift-1914/
Needless to say, I want to drive this car. Ghoulish maybe, but trying something like this with narrow tyres and 4 cylinder, FWD architecture as well as its history really intrigues me.
And it only made 32 PS when new.
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