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Hitler's Favourite Car Under The Hammer
Bonhams & Butterfields, that operates as an auction house in the United Kingdom, is delighted to offer for sale by auction one of the most charismatic Grand Prix racing cars ever built, the 1939 Auto Union D-Type with rear-mounted 3.0-liter twin-stage supercharged V12 cylinder engine. Touted to be the motor sport equivalent of the "Holy Grail", the 1939 Auto Union D-Type is the only model of the car to have stayed intact to date.
With the war looming over Europe in 1939, Stuck drove the car to place finishes in the EifelRennen race at Nurburg and the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux. Now let's not even think about its corollaries for he had raced for the person whom the world bowed down. "Stuck profited constantly and to an astonishing degree from his acquaintance with Adolf Hitler," the Telegraph quoted German motor sports commentator, Eberhard Reuss, as saying in his book, 'Hitler's Motor Racing Battles'. The auctioneer, Bonhams, has revealed that for 40 years the survival of these cars seemed 'little more than unproven myth', and the search for them 'regarded as historic motor sport's quest for the holy grail.'
While a majority of them were cannibalised for parts, Chassis 19 somehow avoided that fate. In the mid-1980s, Paul Karassik, a Russian-born American classic car enthusiast, found Chassis 19 intact in Ukraine, and it was later restored by East Sussex-based Crosthwaite & Gardiner."It's one of the classic cars and the world's most charismatic machines. It is exquisitely well-restored to running order," concludes Bonhams.
Bonhams and Butterfields at Quail Lodge in Carmel, California will sell the car on August 14.
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