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Nuvolari's car
Dec. 6th, 2006 08:14 amThey're auctioning one of the surviving Auto-Union D types. I had no idea any of the D types had survived. I always thought they were destroyed in the War*.
If it won the Yugoslav GP, then it's Tazio Nuvolari's car. It's sad that Hitler's association with the car is considered more memorable than Nuvolari's.
That had to have been a strange, sad race. It was held on the last weekend of peace, when the Germans were already bombing Warsaw, and the borders were closing all across Europe. Only Mercedes and Auto-Union showed up. I've wondered before what it must have been like. I can imagine myself caught up in that, looking forward to the local GP throughout that tense summer, then trying to forget what was happening and enjoy the race, while not knowing if there'd ever be another. It makes me think in a way of the Australian Grand Prix scene from "On the Beach".
I wonder how many of the spectators lived through the War? It's always seemed strangely cruel to me to think that there were people who were great admirers of the Germans and their cars (I know I would have been) who then had to fight them.
* Apparently they were stolen by the Soviets, which opens another mystery. What would a communist want with a GP car?
*****
First, we install 30 USB ports..
If it won the Yugoslav GP, then it's Tazio Nuvolari's car. It's sad that Hitler's association with the car is considered more memorable than Nuvolari's.
That had to have been a strange, sad race. It was held on the last weekend of peace, when the Germans were already bombing Warsaw, and the borders were closing all across Europe. Only Mercedes and Auto-Union showed up. I've wondered before what it must have been like. I can imagine myself caught up in that, looking forward to the local GP throughout that tense summer, then trying to forget what was happening and enjoy the race, while not knowing if there'd ever be another. It makes me think in a way of the Australian Grand Prix scene from "On the Beach".
I wonder how many of the spectators lived through the War? It's always seemed strangely cruel to me to think that there were people who were great admirers of the Germans and their cars (I know I would have been) who then had to fight them.
* Apparently they were stolen by the Soviets, which opens another mystery. What would a communist want with a GP car?
*****
First, we install 30 USB ports..
