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    Vorsprung Your Way to Goodwood This July to See Audi at Its Very Best

    Auto Union Type D Race Car To Auction For $8 Million

    Audi Resurrects Auto Union Type D Racer For Goodwood, Pink Floyd's Mason Behind Wheel
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    Image of notfitforhumanconsumption notfitforhumanconsumption
    03/19/09

    In reply to Vorsprung Your Way to Goodwood This July to See Audi at Its Very Best
    What is that gorgeous green thing to the right of the Audi, in front of the microbus???
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    Image of Nurburgringer Nurburgringer
    03/19/09

    @notfitforhumanconsumption:


    Jag XJ13. 1 of 1. Crashed during high speed testing back in the day, 'rebuilt' fairly recently:


    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of Nurburgringer Nurburgringer
    03/19/09

    @Nurburgringer:


    and on this topic, is there some (unfathomable) reason this car has not been nominated for the JFG?

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    Image of Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness
    03/19/09

    @Nurburgringer:

    Do we still have a garage?
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    03/19/09

    In reply to Vorsprung Your Way to Goodwood This July to See Audi at Its Very Best
    "Vorsprung Your Way to Goodwood"... for a moment, I thought that Charles had become the latest Jalopnik guest-columnist...


    But Audis aren't "ass-engined", are they?

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    Image of Landau_Calrissian loves our President Camacho. Landau_Calrissian loves our President Camacho.
    03/19/09

    In reply to Vorsprung Your Way to Goodwood This July to See Audi at Its Very Best
    I love its sweet, sweet Pinewood-Derbyish goodness.
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    03/19/09

    @Landau_Calrissian is a Plastic Paddy: You were a lot better than me at woodcarving, I guess...
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    Image of Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness Vintage Racer - with V-12 goodness
    03/19/09

    In reply to Vorsprung Your Way to Goodwood This July to See Audi at Its Very Best
    Indy 500... check

    Daytona 24 hours... check

    Laguna Seca ALMS this year

    Bristol night race next year

    Le Mans... next year

    Goodwood... soon.... soon...


    This is one of those vents that I so need to go to...

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    03/19/09

    In reply to Vorsprung Your Way to Goodwood This July to See Audi at Its Very Best
    Why won't Audi bring their V-14s? V-8, V-10, V-12, V-16. All very nice. What are they hiding? This should be a bigger scandal than those Ferrari trucks no one is willing to talk about.
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    Image of VTEC VTEC
    03/19/09

    In reply to Vorsprung Your Way to Goodwood This July to See Audi at Its Very Best
    I still tend to think of Audis as being driven exclusively by cocks and cement salesman, a la Clarkson. But still, I wouldn't mind having an Audi LP560-4 or an Audi Veyron ;)
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    Image of JC Whitless JC Whitless
    03/19/09

    @VTEC: If I were a middle aged woman of moderate means and a husband with a good pension, I would consider a TT as a nice car to not take care of and park just too closely to concrete abutments and Nissan Pathfinders.


    Because scrapes, scratches, and wrinkles give a car character. And no other vehicle does that better than an Audi. Think of the character of a gunmetal gray Audi with yellow safety paint scraped down her flanks. And if I know something, it is that nobody gives better scrapes and scratches with wrinkles better than a cougar..I, eh, mean middle aged women.

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    03/19/09

    In reply to Vorsprung Your Way to Goodwood This July to See Audi at Its Very Best
    Maria Von Trapp just became hot.
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    Image of JC Whitless JC Whitless
    03/19/09

    @maximum-sienna haz a NA V-6:


    SHE'S A TRAPP!!

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    Image of maximum-sienna maximum-sienna
    03/19/09

    @JCWhitless - I'm totally Re-Starded: I can't see the picture you posted, my work's firewall doesn't like it.


    @joshman misses preview: Seeing I don't know what the picture is, this might sound stupid, but he was a Captain.

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    03/19/09

    @maximum-sienna haz a NA V-6: No, he was an Admiral.
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    JC Whitless was starred JC Whitless was unstarred
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    03/19/09

    @maximum-sienna haz a NA V-6: But since you can't see the picture, that shouldn't stop you from guessing.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/19/09

    In reply to Vorsprung Your Way to Goodwood This July to See Audi at Its Very Best
    Is it wrong that I would rather have the VW bus in the background than the classic Audi racers?
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    03/19/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.:


    To say nothing of the Jag, which I just noticed and totally want to dragon.

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    Image of JC Whitless JC Whitless
    03/19/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: MK1 GTI FTW
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/19/09

    @JCWhitless - I'm totally Re-Starded:


    Actually, based off the mirrors, I think that is a Mk2.

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    Image of JC Whitless JC Whitless
    03/19/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.:


    Weird... They are body colored on the example above.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/19/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: It does have those bedroom eyes.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/19/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: Also, the turn indicators on the bumpers were not present on MkIs.
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    03/19/09

    @JCWhitless - I'm totally Re-Starded:


    You have no idea how immensely proud of myself I am for having been able to distinguish between the model years of a non-US car.


    Being raised a hot rod/muscle car guy, that is rare for me.

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    03/19/09

    @engineerd is functionally ЯetardeD: Totally.


    It also has those curvy hips, a nicely rounded rear end, and it's totally topless.


    Time turn on a little Marvin Gaye and get all the way down with that sexy beast of a car.

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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    03/19/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: Yes...kinda sorta...and no.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/19/09

    @Scroggzilla: I love Catch-22.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    03/19/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: That's the XJ13. Didn't think they let that out of the museum.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/19/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: Now I'm humming "Let's Get It On" and my coworker in the cube next to me is looking at me with genuine fear in his eyes.


    No worries, man. I'm a heterocarmosexual.

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    03/19/09

    @engineerd is functionally ЯetardeD: That's the way love is.
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    03/20/09

    @pauljones-Jo Schmo's saintly and opposite twin.: I experienced something similar when I learned to tell apart Cadillac Eldorados from the back from model years 1960 to 1963. Car geek zen!
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    03/16/09

    In reply to Auto Union Type D Race Car To Auction For $8 Million
    The most desirable existing pre-war race car. Period. Surprised it's only $8 million. The Russians destroyed almost every other one.
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    Image of PatFromGundo PatFromGundo
    03/16/09

    In reply to Auto Union Type D Race Car To Auction For $8 Million
    Anyone want to speculate on who will walk away with the car? My money's on Dr. Fred Simeone.
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    Image of P.Ξ.L.M. wonders if he should change his Xterra P.Ξ.L.M. wonders if he should change his Xterra
    03/16/09

    In reply to Auto Union Type D Race Car To Auction For $8 Million
    Hey guys,


    I'm really not sure of that, but I'm pretty sure I heard once that the first race tracks (circa the era of this car, or maybe before) we're made out of wood? Anyone can confirm this?


    Maybe I'm just got too much Breakfast Scotch too...

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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    03/16/09

    @P.Ξ.L.M., needs to fix that rust hole...: The board tracks were at least 15-20 years prior to this period. Most disappeared during the early years of the Great Depression, due to the high cost of upkeep.


    Here's some footage of motorcycle racing on the board track at Daytona FL, filmed in 1920.



    + Watch video
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/16/09

    In reply to Auto Union Type D Race Car To Auction For $8 Million
    Am I the only one who thinks that "Hans Stuck" is a hilarious name for a driver?
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    03/16/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: Now that you mention it, it is kinda funny.
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    Image of 3carsvo 3carsvo
    03/16/09

    In reply to Auto Union Type D Race Car To Auction For $8 Million
    Is this the rig that was featured on an episode of Chasing Classic Cars with Wayne Carini where it's history had come under question? Or was that a different chassis?
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    Image of Uncle Bo Uncle Bo
    03/16/09

    @3carsvo:


    Yes, this is it. Back in 2007, Christie's was consigned to sell this car, estimating 8-12 million Euros which would have made it the most expensive car ever sold.


    Apparently there was confusion as to the chassis number and its racing heritage. They thought this car was #21 with a 1939 French GP win, turns out its #19 with a not-as-spectacular racing history but good enough for the punters to drop millions on it.


    Regardless, for most collectors this is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity. You hear that a lot in collector circles but it's 100% true in this case. Not many of these cars come up for sale, as in never come up for sale.


    Bummer for the auction house that the economy has turned. A couple years makes all the difference when silly money is concerned.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/16/09

    In reply to Auto Union Type D Race Car To Auction For $8 Million
    I just checked my bank account and I'm about $7,999,999 away from being able to afford this.


    If I had $8 million laying around that I didn't know what to do with -- you know, if I had already bought GM -- then I would buy this.


    Then I would try to enter it at a LeMons race. I would have money, obviously, so bribing the judges would not be a problem. Plus, I would think Lieberman and Ms. Martin would look the other way to have such historic awesome running around the track.


    Sometimes dreams are all you have.

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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    03/16/09

    @engineerd is functionally ЯetardeD: It'd be all fun and games until you had to write "I will not pass under a black flag" in permanent marker 50 times on your $8 million car.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    03/16/09

    @SirNotAppearing: @jbownsabmw and Will Work For Fuel: I'm just figuring if I had that kind of cash laying around I wouldn't mind writing on the car or risking giving it up on a $500 call.


    I always imagine if I was rich I would be like Thomas Crown. I would buy and destroy things just because I could.

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    03/16/09

    In reply to Auto Union Type D Race Car To Auction For $8 Million
    This past winter my sister hit two moose in Vermont with her Audi. The car was totaled, one moose was eviscerated. The pictures are disgusting.


    After seeing that, I wouldn't recommend anyone hitting a bison, except for maybe Edward Liddy. Edward Liddy can afford to buy this car, and then smash it into a bison.


    I hope he's going plaid at the time of impact too.

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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    03/16/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: So... your sister hit a moose once?
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    03/16/09

    @SirNotAppearing: To clarify, she was driving her Volvo, she has an Audi now. Sorry about that.


    She was on the highway and two moose were running across. Her car struck both of them.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    03/16/09

    @SirNotAppearing: My sister was bitten by a moose.

    No, really!
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    03/16/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...
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    Image of SeanKHotay SeanKHotay
    03/16/09

    Will the commenters Novaload Misses Murilee & SirNotAppearing be sacked?
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    03/16/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: There are moose in Vermont? (Sorry, ignorant California transplant to the East Coast here.)


    My friend was driving home from Baltimore to Pennsylvania and managed to hit a black bear. I'm not sure which car he was in though - it was either a 750iL, an SL600, or a 328 GTS. I think he said the car wasn't too banged up, though, so it probably wasn't the Ferrari. When he got back to his parents' house that night and inspected the front of the car, he said there was bear fur and blood everywhere. Explaining that one to the insurance company must have been a bitch.

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