Physicist Stephen Hawking’s personal car, a Volkswagen Caravelle van exposed On the British auction site Silverstone.
Hawking drove a 1988 Volkswagen Caravelle GL 112 van at his 1995 wedding. The scientist still bought the car new and drove it until 1999, when Hawking’s health began to deteriorate. The van was put up for auction by the scientist’s nephew, who has owned the car since 2003.
The car is equipped with a 2.1-liter gasoline engine with a capacity of 112 horsepower. Its mileage is 145 thousand km. The van comes with Cambridge maintenance records. The tender will be held on August 27.
Hawking died in March 2018 at the age of 76. In 1963, while Hawking was graduating from Oxford University, doctors diagnosed him with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – disease Motor neurons that make it impossible for a person’s muscles to move.