I took this photograph of a 1938 Auto Union D-Type at the Donington Park Museum in March 1996.
It was one of a group of Auto Union racing cars that
disappeared after the Second World War when the part of Germany where they had
been produced and were stored was occupied by Soviet Russia when the war ended,
and all the remaining cars were transported to Russia. It was generally assumed
that after the Russians had gleaned what information they could from the cars
they had all been destroyed. With the breakdown of the USSR, however, several
of these cars came to light and one by one the remains were resuscitated by the
engineers at Crosthwaite and Gardiner in Buxted, East Sussex. This is one of
those cars and was on display at the Donington Park Museum for a period after
its restoration.
The Auto Union D-type had a supercharged 3 litre V12 engine
and was driven in 1938 by Hermann Müller, Rudolf Hasse, Christian Kautz, Hans
Stuck, Tazio Nuvolari and Ulrich Bigalke and in the curtailed 1939 season by
Herman Müller, Tazio Nuvolari. Rudolf Hasse, Georg Meier and Hans Stuck.
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