I met a 90 year old man in about '79 and we became buddies. His wife had had TB so he had no kids and she'd died 10 years earlier. An uncle of his was a polio survivor and couldn't crank a gas car so had a series of steamers, Stanley and White. He rode in them, said they had amazing torque. Very gentle and steady, would pull out of a mud rut like no gas engine could as there was no clutch - no torque to accidentally dump. Instead just a slow filling of the chamber with steam while the car motored out of the mud. Fast and quiet too. Those pictures look pretty good. Someone is going to pay bank for those.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
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