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Paul Karassik,zmogus kuris rado apie 1990m.Ukrainoje "Auto Union Typ D",kuris siu metu vasario men.17d.aukcione bus parduotas

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Truputis informacijos(anglu kalba):CHRISTIE'S AUCTIONS AUTO UNION TYPE D RACING CAR


INGOLSDADT, Germany - Perhaps the most expensive car ever to be sold in the history of the prestigious auction house Christie's is due to go under the hammer on 17 February at the international vintage car fair Rétromobile in Paris: one of two remaining original Type D racing cars from Auto Union dating from 1939. Christie's has estimated the value of the car at 8.8 to 12 million euros. That would be a new record in the British auction house's long history. Worldwide interest in the vehicle is huge. For that reason, Christie's is holding a press conference in collaboration with Audi of America and Audi Tradition in New York on 25 January (10.30 am). Audi France will be exhibiting an original Auto Union Type D from Audi Tradition to mark the auction in Paris (12 February, 11.30 am).

Auto Union is one of the brands that later jointly became AUDI AG. Audi Tradition keeps alive the memory of the legendary Auto Union Grand Prix racing cars. While the vehicle on auction will be on display in the Audi Forum New York (250 Park Avenue and 47th) on 25 January, the so-called sister car – the Auto Union Type D racing car from 1938 – will be making an appearance on 12 February in Paris (Bauer Saint Honoré, 48 Place du Marché Saint Honoré). Both of these Grand Prix cars made the journey from the former Soviet Union, having been transported there from Zwickau in eastern Germany after World War II by the Soviet occupation forces.

In the 1980s the American Paul Karassik eventually brought them to the West having searched for over ten years and eventually finding the cars stripped down into individual parts in the former USSR. He then had them reassembled by specialists in Britain with technical support from AUDI AG. Subsequently AUDI AG acquired the 1938 car from Paul Karassik. The 1939 D Type passed into private ownership.

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.

Audi Tradition today once again owns four Auto Union Silver Arrows – the original Type D and Type C/D hill-climbing car and replicas of the original Type C Grand Prix car and the Type C Avus Streamline racing car. A further replica is still to be produced this year – a Auto Union Type D racing car of the 1939 generation with twin compressor.

Experts from Audi Tradition will be on hand at the press conferences in New York and Paris and at the auction on 17 February at 6.30 pm on the Christie's stand at the Rétromobile in Paris (Hall 7), where they will be available to answer specialist questions.

The four rings of the Audi badge symbolize the brands Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer, which were later combined under the umbrella of Auto Union. Auto Union and NSU, which merged in 1969, made many significant contributions towards the development of the car. AUDI AG was formed from Audi NSU Auto Union AG in 1985. Together with the two traditional companies Auto Union GmbH and NSU GmbH, Audi Tradition nurtures and presents the deep and diverse history of Audi. The Audi museum mobile at the Audi Forum Ingolstadt is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m

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Siek tiek informacijos(anglu kalba):1939 Auto Union Type D, Chassis number 21, engine number 37

Technical specification:

Engine: mid-mounted 60 degree V-12 with two six-cylinder blocks cast in siluminium (silicon-aluminium) alloy with 'wet' steel cylinder liners and detachable alloy cylinder heads. Two valves per cylinder operated from a single inlet-valve camshaft and one camshaft per block for the exhaust valves driven by vertical shaft and bevel gears. Built-up Hirth-pattern crankshaft running in seven plain main bearings, forged con-rods with roller bearing big and little ends and Mahle alloy pistons. Dry sump lubrication with front-mounted oil-cooler. Dual magneto ignition with one plug per cylinder. Two stage Roots-type superchargers providing approx 24lb boost.
Dimensions: cylinder bore 65 mm, piston stroke 75 mm, 2986 cc.
Power output: 485 bhp at 7,000 rpm.
Transmission: plate clutch, rear-mounted 5-speed gearbox and integral final-drive unit with ZF limited-slip differential and right-hand gate change.
Chassis: tubular frame with parallel side-members utilising the engine as a semi-stressed unit. Independent front suspension with twin trailing links and transverse torsion bars, hydraulic dampers. De Dion-pattern tubular rear axle with exposed drive-shafts and paired universal joints, lateral location by Panhard rod, transverse torsion bars, hydraulic and friction dampers. 400 mm diameter by 50 mm drum brakes. Rudge-pattern wire wheels with (currently) Dunlop tyres 19 × 6 front, and 19 × 7 rear. Steering via worm and nut with divided track rods, approximately one turn lock to lock, detachable steering wheel.
Wheelbase: 2.77 m; track: 1.42 m; overall length: 4.20 m.
Bodywork: polished aluminium, single seater.


Reading the pre-war race reports one regularly comes across comments that the spectators were "overawed" by the sight and sound of the Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union racing cars, or that they were "awe-struck" by the performance of these powerful machines. The writer first saw this silver, streamlined, Auto Union on a dull day in a London street with red buses and black taxicabs passing by, and was so overawed by its presence that the car became, like a precious jewel, the gleaming centre of attention and the incongruous location and the mundane traffic faded from view. When the engine cover was removed there was beautiful machinery on display - beauty derived from function as well as form. This Auto Union has something of the quality of a fabulous beast of mythology - like an encounter with a unicorn - and after viewing it one was left wondering if it had really happened.

And one is also left wondering how could it be that mere mortals conceived, constructed, and drove such wonderful creations. For this actual car had been driven as it was intended to be, had endured some fifty years of hibernation, and then it had been miraculously found and restored to perfection by people with outstanding talents.

The Auto Union engineers built the car in 1939, and the team records, preserved in Dresden by Professor Peter Kirchberg, show that it was this car that was driven to victory by Hermann P Müller in the 1939 French Grand Prix at an average speed of 105.25 mph (169.38 kph). Paul Karassik and his wife tracked it down and rescued it. Crosthwaite and Gardner and their team of skilled engineers brought it back to life and the dextrous panel-beaters at Rod Jolley Coachbuilding re-clothed it in its sleek aluminium bodywork.

Dick Crosthwaite was able to drive it at the Nürburging on October 1st 1994, soon after work on it was completed. His comments are recorded in Classic and Sportscar magazine and he concludes: "The single-stage car is by far the more pleasant to drive, but its the two-stager which feels like a real racer. I'd love to see a proper racing driver use one of these cars competitively; their true potential was never realised because the war came along. Just picture one of these V-12s in amongst a historic race field. That would be a sight to see - and a sound to hear."

Having just been subjected to a mechanical refreshing at Crosthwaite and Gardiner, the car is absolutely ready to show, demonstrate or indeed race. As listed above only five Auto Union racing cars survive. Of these survivors, only the two Karassik-found cars can legitimately claim to be have been Grand Prix racing cars - the others are universally regarded as having been exhibition or hillclimb cars. Of the two cars that Karassik found, this is not only the most complete in terms of mechanical components, all of which were found in the same location, but is the definitive 1939 form of the model, with the big two-stage supercharger. In the words of Dick Crosthwaite, the reknowned restorer who has been involved with each of these cars, this is the best of all, with the added benefit of having been certified Professor Kirchberg of the Audi works themselves as the French Grand Prix winner - none of the other cars comes even close to such a provenance.

Audi owns three of these cars, the fourth is owned by a major private corporation collection, the same is true for every single Mercedes-Benz Grand prix car from this period, making this an unrepeatable opportunity to own a Grand Prix "Silver Arrow" Racing Car.

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Informacija anglu kalba kovo men.1d.:
March 1st press release In a joint effort with Audi Tradition over the past three weeks, we have completed considerable additional research on the race history of the 1939 Auto Union D Type V12 Grand Prix Racing car originally scheduled for sale at Retromobile in Paris on February 17. Our joint research confirms that the car’s chassis is frame 19, and not 21, the chassis of the 1939 French Grand Prix winner. Regarding racing history, Audi has confirmed that chassis 19 is a genuine 1939 D Type chassis and that it was first raced by Rudolf Hasse in the Eifelrennen on the 20th May 1939 at the Nurburgring, in which Hasse finished in 5th place. It was next raced at the 1939 French Grand Prix in the hands of legendary Auto Union pilot Hans Stuck, who brought the car home in 6th place, behind the company's 1st and 2nd finishers. Audi has kindly been able to support these race results with extensive documentation. During our now completed verification process, no alteration has been made to the car itself which we believe to be the only Auto Union to which Grand Prix racing results can be attributed. Christie's was delighted at the response and interest that the car received in the run up to and while on view at its highly successful Eu7.2m auction in Paris.

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