Franklin Mint 1/8 scale Benz Patent-Motorwagen

As part of their series of large scale historic scale autos Franklin Mint produced the amazing large 1/8 scale Benz Patent-Motorwagen. This beautifully done die cast auto is a highly sought after collectable.
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From the web:
The Benz Patent-Motorwagen ("patent motorcar"), built in 1885, is sometimes regarded as the world's first 'production' automobile, that is, a vehicle designed to be propelled by an internal combustion engine. The original cost of the vehicle in 1885 was 600 imperial German marks approximately 150 US dollars (equivalent to $4,086 in 2017). The vehicle was awarded the German patent number 37435, for which Karl Benz applied on 29 January 1886. Following official procedures, the date of the application became the patent date for the invention once the patent was granted, which occurred in November of that year.
Benz's wife, Bertha, financed the development process. According to modern law, she would have therefore received the patent rights, but married women were not allowed to apply for patents at the time.
Benz unveiled his invention to the public on 3 July 1886, on the Ringstrasse in Mannheim.
About 25 Patent-Motorwagens were built between 1886 and 1893.
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Bertha Benz, Karl's wife, whose dowry financed their enterprise, was aware of the need for publicity. She took the Patent-Motorwagen No. 3, supposedly without her husband's knowledge, and drove it on the first long-distance automobile road trip to demonstrate its feasibility. That trip occurred in early August 1888, as the entrepreneurial lady took her sons Eugen and Richard, fifteen and fourteen years old, respectively, on a ride from Mannheim through Heidelberg, and Wiesloch, to her maternal hometown of Pforzheim.
As well as being the driver, Benz acted as mechanic on the drive, cleaning the carburetor with her hat pin and using a garter to insulate a wire. She refueled at the local pharmacy in Wiesloch, taking on ligroin as a fuel, making it the first filling station in history. As the brakes wore down, Benz asked a local shoemaker to nail leather on the brake blocks, thereby inventing brake linings.[citation needed] After sending a telegram to her husband of her arrival in Pforzheim, she spent the night at her mother's house and returned home three days later. The trip covered 194 km (121 mi) in total.
Official signpost of Bertha Benz Memorial Route.
In Germany, a parade of antique automobiles celebrates this historic trip of Bertha Benz every two years. In 2008, the Bertha Benz Memorial Route was officially approved as a route of industrial heritage of mankind, because it follows Bertha Benz's tracks of the world's first long-distance journey by automobile in 1888. Now everybody can follow the 194 km (121 mi) of signposted route from Mannheim via Heidelberg to Pforzheim (Black Forest) and back.

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

The history of the automobile is an interesting one! A history that doesn't go back too far, yet, look how far the automobile has come! Difficult to imagine that there was once a time when the fuel needed to run a combustion engine, was a rare commodity!! Today... There is fuel to burn! However.. Our new electric cars may have the same issue on the open roads.. Ahhh!!!! I need to recharge!! Does the next town have a charging station??? LOL! Cars are surely built better. The cars of yesteryear were lucky to be alive by 100,000 miles, were on the verge of wearing out after 50,000 miles. Today's cars can run to, and on past 200,000 miles with proper care. Smaller engines give the same, if not more horsepower than the large V8's of the older cars of the early 70's. Who would have believed that a 4.6 L V6 engine would out preform a 400 ci V8 engine? I was totally amazed that my 2000 Dodge Intrepid, with a 2.7 V6 engine, had the power to move that full sized car down the road.. Yet it did! With the birth of the electric car.. We shall see how far that concept will go. As for myself.. I still enjoy the sound of a large V8, with dual exhaust, and glass packs.. I guess there will be an "app" for that!! :P

[@tom7601]

Karyn Felix-Angell A few years ago, there was a "kit" you could add to your car that allowed you to choose the engine you wanted to hear. There was a weatherproof microphone that you mounted near the tailpipe and the output connected to your audio system. There was a selector switch and LCD screen for control. I remember there was a Ferrari V-12, a Mustang V-8, a Corvette V-8, and a couple of other European engines, and I think, a Formula 1. I think there was a KZbin video.

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

That is really cool! I will have to check it out!!

[@tom7601]

Karyn Felix-Angell They make it for android as well as a stand alone unit. It connects to the car's OBDII plug. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4O9qKqPjbOtna8

[@lauricarlson7867]

Good morning to you guys in southern California happy Tuesday march 20th have a great day today

[@ToyManTelevision]

Back at ya!!!!! THE SUN IS OUT (for now)

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

Good morning!! My daughter is arriving from So Cal tomorrow!! Back and forth, and forth and back!! Have a great week!

[@oldschool8432]

Very interesting video. I love the story about the woman going cross-country in that car

[@ToyManTelevision]

Great event! We had a chance to see a real Patent-motorwagn at the Petersen museum in LA last year!! We have a show up on that.

[@oldschool8432]

@@ToyManTelevision You have a video on that? If so can you tell me where to find it

[@ToyManTelevision]

YUP!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6jTg5ptZ9t4o68 HAVE FUN!!

[@greguzar8233]

I may have drooled on that model you were holding. Might check it out and dry it off. Another great episode in the attic/study. Greg and Jeanne.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Its COOL!!! The next 2 are even better!!!!!!!!

[@bobbyslater1198]

Great video, and that Larson model is beautiful.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Bobby Slater I had admired it for years and there it was for sale so I bought it! Really tragic that he died very young.

[@kerridillon3120]

Thanks for another informative, interesting video. My 87 yr old mother passed away early yesterday morning... & this gave me a bit of cheering up with both your lovely smiles. Greetings from my Disneyland area here in Southern California Dale & Karyn!

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

We are so sorry for your loss. We both have been though loosing our moms.. and it is one of the most difficult of life's challenges. Peace be with you in the days ahead.

[@kerridillon3120]

Karyn Felix-Angell Thank you very much. With dementia & cancer, her peaceful passing into Eternity was a blessing! I have followed your losses too on the Toyman Channel. God bless you both!

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

My mom passed at 75, from pancreatic cancer. I thought she was getting dementia.. Her personality totally changed over a period of time. Then she passed out and ended up in the hospital.(2011) That's when the tests revealed her advanced cancer. She died 3 months later. I wasn't ready for that.. but who is? Mom's are just special.. They carry us.. and then we carry them in our hearts forever.

[@kerridillon3120]

Karyn Felix-Angell you are so right. I am the oldest of 8 children in a big Irish Catholic family. My mom was all about the family...amazing lady! Dad died of lung cancer in March 2007...age 75. Our parents will always be alive inside our hearts!♡♡

[@yoochube36]

Love this!👍

[@gregsmith1719]

Neat. Like to see one running.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Karyn wants to DRIVE ONE!!!!!!! (me too)

[@georgeshiner5108]

Loving your content, keep the videos coming. You and your wife are awesome and hope I can do what you guys do someday! Thanks for sharing!

[@ToyManTelevision]

The key is to retire well. We are sooooo blessed. worked hard, but we can now screw around with reasonable abandon. Then we meet someone with a 500 million dollar car collection..... BUT at least we get to meet them. AND so far, everyone we have met has been GREAT!!!

[@jasoncarpp7742]

Impressive story. At a time when you didn't think of women as being able to do anything mechanical with machines, or with the automobile, Bertha Benz drove her husband (Karl's) car 62 miles (100 kms). It's incredible, how far cars have come in over 100 yrs.

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

And...... Don't forget women!!! LOL!! :D

[@jasoncarpp7742]

Exactly! :)

[@ToyManTelevision]

The weird thing is it was her car!! She owned it, paid for it. Helped build it. Sure she could fix it, knew an bought every part!!!

[@jasoncarpp7742]

I've never understood why women at the time, particularly married women, weren't allowed to drive, let alone purchase a car, or anything at the time.

[@ToyManTelevision]

In Germany women could not hold patents. AND only the person who paid for the development could own the patent. SO if it would have come out that Berth paid for the parts and machining, they would not have been able to own the patent and therefore sell the cars.

[@DRGW485]

I thought the Patent Motorwagen at the Peterson was a replica. The Nethercutt has one as well but I am pretty sure theirs is a replica.

[@martinihrck2704]

Very nice I like petrol head myself.

[@ToyManTelevision]

We love the smell of old cars!!!!! Sort of oil, leather and rubber.

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

I come from a family of gear-heads... Grew up handing my dad wrenches as he worked on cars. We have a tendency to forget.. But old cars do have a "smell".. Oil, and that un-burned gas smell. Once in a while, here in SLC.. I get a wiff of an old car passing by on the road..... Hummm... Rings.... Yup. Burning a lil rich there.. [sniffsniff]..... Kind of miss that sometimes.

[@wayned4271]

Great video, very informative. Thanks for sharing. Why is the video of you two so fuzzy or overexposed?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Love to drive one of those!!!

[@martinihrck2704]

They do have a smell attache to them that the new cars do not have..Drive a Borgward Isabella Combi myself that I have restored. So I understand what you say..

[@ToyManTelevision]

When we walk into Gragemahal (on the car side) AH the aroma!!! We are not into aroma therapy, OK its fine to light a candle but common, cure cancer that way?? Anyway, the light aroma of fuel and oil... The 67 mustang is emitting its smell. The 2007 Mustang sits quiet and stinks not..... You get the feeling it's thinking of the other, Hill Billy....

[@daviemaclean61]

Now there's a lady driver who knew how to change a tyre!!! ;-)........and modify the car as she went along too.

[@ToyManTelevision]

She was amazing. When the car breaks I let Karyn fix it. I'll just screw it up.

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

There are a couple of things I won't tackle.... Windshield wipers. Just can't make them work! They just fly away at the most inopportune time, after I think I've installed them correctly. I sent more wipers into orbit....... It's amazing how fast they go!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

I was hit by one years ago. I still have nightmares.

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

Could have been Cupid's arrow! Never did find the one that shot off my Camaro in 1979 in the Kmart parking lot on 9th east....

[@maxwells2602]

I would like to have had some information about the actual model, such as if there are any moving parts, the materials etc rather than the conspiracy theory about how it was really a woman who invented the first car but wasn't allowed to have the patent in her name. Where is the proof that the patent was really created by her? Did she even claim this herself? Did Karl Benz admit that he was a fraud?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Got the information from their web site. Great photos as well. The model is mostly metal with really nice paint. Working engine parts and belt drive. Seat and a few other parts bare plastic. Not as nice as it’s just bare plastic finish. But still not bad at all. Overall a real work of art.

[@maxwells2602]

@@ToyManTelevision Thanks, I appreciate the reply. I am considering purchasing this model. Any additional information would be icing on the cake, such as when it was first released, the original retail price, what its value is now etc. Perhaps you could note it for future reviews as I am sure others would also be interested in this information.

[@jasoncarpp7742]

Are you sure the "Subscribe" button is blue? I just pressed "unsubscribe", and then "subscribe", and I noticed that it was, in fact, red! Blue is the "comment" button, just below the comment secton. :)

[@ToyManTelevision]

When you hover over it, it turns red. It becomes the KZbin subscribe button.

[@jasoncarpp7742]

Are you sure? I just hit "unsubscribe", and it turned red. If I hit it again, it turns grey, saying that I had just subscribed.

[@yoochube36]

Love this!👍