Thanks Tim for the excellent pictures.
These pics remind me of some unanswered questions I have on the currently existing Auto Unions (original and recreations) that I never got around to asking as TNF has gone on a Silver Arrows sabatical lately.
1. Looks like the list on 8W
http://8w.forix.com/au-lineup.html has to be updated. See the list below:
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Just how many Auto Unions exist today? And what’s their history? A quick line-up.
Original cars with racing history
Typ C/D Bergrennwagen 1938-1939. It is in fact the only car that took part in pre-war racing and stayed more or less in one piece until today. Came from a museum in Riga, Letvia, now in the Audi Museum Mobile Ingolstadt.
Original cars without racing history
Typ D 1938, which Karassik found in Russia. Now owned by Audi Tradition.
Typ D 1939, also Karassik, now apparently sold to a mysterious owner in Great Britain. Both cars were in fact a large heap of parts. Crosthwaithe & Gardiner (C&G) built two Typ Ds out of them.
Typ D 1938. A display car that came out of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Czech race driver Pohl sold it to Hubertus Count Donhoff, who then sold it to Kerry Payne. In it is a V12 engine that German collector Martin Schröder smuggled out of Leipzig. Colin Crabbe rebuilt the car. It was sold by Christies at Pebble Beach 1990 and now resides somewhere in a warehouse near Frankfurt. I believe its present owner is from Asia.
Typ C, 1936-1937, a display car that survived the war as an exhibit piece in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
Replicas
Typ C 1937, Stromlinienwagen, built by C&G, now on permanent display in the Audi Museum Mobile in Ingolstadt
Typ C 1936-1937, a replica from C&G, now in the hands of Audi Tradition, Ingolstadt.
Typ C 1936-1937, a replica from C&G, now in the hands of Autostadt in Wolfsburg.
Typ C/D Bergwagen. 1938-1939, a replica of the original, in the Latvian museum in Riga.
Typ D 1939, by C&G, now in the hands of Audi Tradition, Ingolstadt.
Typ A 1934, by C&G, now in the hands of D'Ieteren Frères, Bruxelles.
Replicas being built
Typ A 1934, by C&G, for Audi Tradition, Ingolstadt.
Typ C 1936-1937, by an unknown workshop in Brisbane, Australia, from original plans, don’t know who ordered and payed for this car.
Cars thought to be Auto Unions, but (perhaps) are not
1933/34 P-Wagen, by Terry Wright, now in Scotland and on sale. Very likely a fake, but strangely enough with some genuine parts that no-one knows where they came from.
1940 Typ E, now known to be an Awtowelo Typ 650 ‘Sokol’ from around 1950. In the Donington Collection.
1940 Typ E, now known to be an Awtowelo Typ 650 ‘Sokol’ from around 1950. Partially scrapped, now in the hands of the Dresden Technical Museum.
Known leftover bits
V16 engine, original from 1934 or 1935, on display in the August Horch museum in Zwickau, a gift from the Dresden Technical Museum.
V16 engine, original, used to be in the hands of the Motorradmuseum Augustusburg near Chemnitz. Stolen and present location unknown.
V12 engine, from the Typ D that came out of Prague. Smuggled into the GDR and stoned-in in the basement of a Leipzig apartment building.
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This Bernie C-type is new and Audi Tradition has C&G building a 1939 twin stage supercharged D-type replica, there was an article on it's creation in the November 2005 issue of Octane. The article states that this is the last Auto Union of any type to be built by C&G. So these two cars should be added to the list and an amendment stating that Terry Wrights P-Wagen thingie may have been used in the construction of Bernie's C-Type.
2. In the Auto Union: Mysterious History thread
http://forums.autosp...y=&pagenumber=3Doug Nye asked at question in post 82 about the existance of another V-16 show car. Has anymore information come to light since then?
3. What about the car that Alexandrow said had been smuggled out a few years back?
4. What's the story about the C-type being built in Austrailia? What is it's current status?
5. Someone mentioned a few years back that the Karassik's were working on a book about their experiences hunting Auto Unions, is there an further information on this happening?
6. If you go to Aerogi's Motorsport Pictures Forum, there is an interesting thread about Soviet Speed Record cars that I never knew about.
http://www.phpbbplan...9&mforum=aerogiThe pics of the cars show to me a Auto Union Stromlinienwagen influence.