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

    Welsh Rarebit: The Connaught Type-D Nears Production

    Holy Crap! Auto Union Type D Going on the Block!
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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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    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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    Image of aSoundofSleep-less nights aSoundofSleep-less nights
    03/16/09

    In reply to Auto Union Type D Race Car To Auction For $8 Million
    So not only do I get a super-rare piece of LeMans history, but I get a venison steak for the low, low price of $8,000,000?!??!


    Where's Billy Mays to scream at the top of his lungs about amazing shit when you need him??

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    03/16/09

    @aSoundofSleep saw Roy Wort take the preview button!: I was thinking the Shamwow guy might be more appropriate. Audi is a German company after all, we know how Germans build good stuff!
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    Image of armyofchuckness armyofchuckness
    03/16/09

    In reply to Auto Union Type D Race Car To Auction For $8 Million
    I thought a bison was where British people washed their faces.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    03/16/09

    @armyofchuckness: I think you're confusing it with a bedpan. That's where they wash their faces.
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