Love historic race cars? Who doesn't? The bigger question is do you love historic race carsand have deep pockets? If you can answer yes to that last question, then maybe this Christie's auction coming up February 17th is something you may want to check out...
The car in question is a 1938 Auto Union Type D racing car, which is one of two remaining examples.
The Auto Union engineers, headed by Robert Eberan-Eberhorst, developed the 12-cylinder Type D racing car for the 1938 racing season, in which new international Grand Prix regulations were introduced, limiting engine capacity to three liters. The fundamental technical design of the car – mid-mounted engine, torsion bar suspension, supercharged engine – essentially followed the model of its Type C predecessor, developed by Ferdinand Porsche for Auto Union with a 16-cylinder V-engine. In 1938 Auto Union won the Italian and British Grand Prix with the Type D racing car.
The car was modified in 1939 with the addition of a twin compressor, which increased its engine power output from 420 to 460 bhp. Its top speed was 330 km/h and it was driven to victory at the Grand Prix in France and Yugoslavia. The top drivers of the Auto Union Type D racing car were Tazio Nuvolari, H.P. Müller, Hans Stuck, Rudolf Hasse and Georg Meier.
Full story here. Oh... if you should go, better arrive in a Brinks armored car, as that's what it will take to be the winning bidder.
The Auto Union engineers, headed by Robert Eberan-Eberhorst, developed the 12-cylinder Type D racing car for the 1938 racing season, in which new international Grand Prix regulations were introduced, limiting engine capacity to three liters. The fundamental technical design of the car – mid-mounted engine, torsion bar suspension, supercharged engine – essentially followed the model of its Type C predecessor, developed by Ferdinand Porsche for Auto Union with a 16-cylinder V-engine. In 1938 Auto Union won the Italian and British Grand Prix with the Type D racing car.
The car was modified in 1939 with the addition of a twin compressor, which increased its engine power output from 420 to 460 bhp. Its top speed was 330 km/h and it was driven to victory at the Grand Prix in France and Yugoslavia. The top drivers of the Auto Union Type D racing car were Tazio Nuvolari, H.P. Müller, Hans Stuck, Rudolf Hasse and Georg Meier.
Full story here. Oh... if you should go, better arrive in a Brinks armored car, as that's what it will take to be the winning bidder.
ateixeira says:
11:32 AM, 01/24/07
Bet it won't fetch what Shelby's car did. ;-)
estreka says:
12:52 PM, 01/24/07
I have deep pockets, but there's a sizable hole in the bottom.
kaboca says:
05:42 PM, 01/30/07
Yeh .
But you forgot that this car was build 30 years before the Shelby.
That time it was revolutionary new concept.