{"id":9419,"date":"2019-06-13T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationalclassic.com\/?p=9419\/"},"modified":"2019-07-18T15:56:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T13:56:36","slug":"engine-auto-union-type-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalclassic.com\/en\/engine-auto-union-type-d\/","title":{"rendered":"The Czech engine of the Auto Union Type D"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Many years ago Hubertus Graf von D\u00f6nhoff, the driving force behind the N\u00fcrburgring Summer Historic Festival, came to be the possessor of the pride of the Third Reich a 1938 Auto Union Type D.<\/p>\n

Hubertus\u2019s family had had vast holdings in Eastern Germany and this is where the car was discovered. My client Kerry Payne entered the picture and became fascinated with the idea of owning an Auto Union and made a deal to buy the car.<\/p>\n

The only problem with it was that the engine in the car was for display only and had no internal pieces. There were no drawings available and the cost no object approach by the Nazis to dominate motor racing made the rebuild of the engine a dream only. The only solution was to find original spares, but where.<\/p>\n

I was approached by Kerry to help him solve these problems and by chance, I mentioned this to a friend Jim Wellington, a Porsche expert that I knew. He mentioned that he had a good friend in Prague that loved cars and might be helpful.<\/p>\n

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