Auto Union Type D Withdrawn
Christie's has announced in a one-sentence statement that the sale of the Auto Union Type D Grand Prix car has been "postponed".
The statement was the epitome of simplicity:
"Christie's today announced that it will postpone the sale of the 1939 Auto Union - Grand Prix V12 Type D race car from the February Retromobile sale in Paris pending further exploration into the car's race history, in collaboration with Audi Tradition."
Eager conspiracy theorists may avidly parse this sentence into its parts, but it is really quite clear.
It is about "race history". That's what it says. It's also about Audi Tradition's participation in the process. It says that, too.
The chances are it's just about which races this Type D ran, and which one(s) it won, just like the statement says.
Exactly why that should involve more than a saleroom notice is unclear. Conspiracy theorists would like to suggest a compromised history of its parts.
C'mon. All the Auto Union survivors got spirited away to the Soviet Union where they were mixed and matched like the parts of a suit at the GUM store. It is enough that the parts survived to be reunited into a running, driving, two-stage supercharged Auto Union Type D.
Hopefully some clarification will emerge from Retromobile. If it does it'll be here.
Rick Carey
February 12, 2007
Christie's has announced in a one-sentence statement that the sale of the Auto Union Type D Grand Prix car has been "postponed".
The statement was the epitome of simplicity:
"Christie's today announced that it will postpone the sale of the 1939 Auto Union - Grand Prix V12 Type D race car from the February Retromobile sale in Paris pending further exploration into the car's race history, in collaboration with Audi Tradition."
Eager conspiracy theorists may avidly parse this sentence into its parts, but it is really quite clear.
It is about "race history". That's what it says. It's also about Audi Tradition's participation in the process. It says that, too.
The chances are it's just about which races this Type D ran, and which one(s) it won, just like the statement says.
Exactly why that should involve more than a saleroom notice is unclear. Conspiracy theorists would like to suggest a compromised history of its parts.
C'mon. All the Auto Union survivors got spirited away to the Soviet Union where they were mixed and matched like the parts of a suit at the GUM store. It is enough that the parts survived to be reunited into a running, driving, two-stage supercharged Auto Union Type D.
Hopefully some clarification will emerge from Retromobile. If it does it'll be here.
Rick Carey
February 12, 2007
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