> Jester, for future reference you might want to add a link as proof that you are right.
> Kind of like this

That’s what Google is for.

But I knew the car from a book about german streamline cars between the wars.

Regards
Jester

(not my photo)

Oh and here is the English version of the previous website http://www.horch-museum.de/eng.....inhalt.asp

Oh well, since I’m posting again, here’s the Horch museum:

http://www.horch-museum.de/

Note the 4 ring Auto Union logo. Audi wound up deciding to retain it as remenants of the company went forward.

It’s this kind of history that makes this site so fun.

I think we have a winner. Not least of which is because there’s a similar photo on this site of a 1939 Horch 930 S. Dang, the resemblance to the Auto Union racecars had me looking at their saloons and a number of the individual makes, but no match. (Oh, what I learned about the German car industry of the 30’s because of this.) There were suggestions at some messageboards I posted this at that it looked like a Wanderer, which also was a part of Auto Union. But without a model name or number it’s hit or miss finding the right car.

For those not familiar with this, Auto Union would be like GM, the merger of Audi, Wanderer, DKW, and Horch under a master company. Ferry Porsche and others worked for them. The Silver Arrows racecars ran in the predecessor to the Grand Prix, and were eating it up. The Nazi’s could have kept the troops at home and Germany may well have conquered the world markets. Of course that wouldn’t have been as much FUN.

So I was wondering if the failure to mention the make of the car had something to do with the war being underway, and now since there is an Auto Union connection, I’m sure of it. The Silver Arrows were commissioned and financed by the governement because Hitler wanted a winner, and he sure got one. Hey, it’s not the cars’ fault. A great foreboding was created as Bernd Rosemeyer collected a championship as he and his teammates were racking up the victories, only to cause the Germans a foreboding of their own when he was killed in a landspeed record attempt in the Auto Union streamliner.

Our thanks to Jester, I know I was sure dying to know. Hey, I’m a car guy and a history nut. If you would like to actually READ the site, there’s always the google translation.

http://translate.google.com/tr.....ie%3DUTF-8

http://www.webkits.com.br/news.....Hor-24.jpg
http://www.webkits.com.br/news.....;zoneid=30
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horch

Good call though! You know your cars. Everyone else is wrong.

http://classiccars.about.com/o.....39Alfa.htm

There is “A full range of variants.” With Alfa’s there’s some cars that reference the Jankovits brothers, and I’m tempted to think this is their doing. But I look at the different models and they all have one thing or another that’s different from each other and more like this. I can’t find exactly the look, though.

So I EMailed this to several of the auction houses who would handle such a car if it were for sale. We’ll see if anyone steps in and identifies it for us.

There’s a 1909 New York Times article about an American who had Fiat build him a custom limo with running water, so this wasn’t a new thing. I wonder if this was special order.

http://www.channel4.com/4car/g.....jsp?id=730

Yes, you are correct. I did mean the Blitz in France, and not the original one in Poland. Still it seems strange to me that they were building and showing off cars like that in Europe several months into a big war. Maybe that’s one of the many reasons it only took about 6 weeks to finish off western Europe once the Blitzkrieg got rolling there. If I remember correctly, the last cars to hit the roads in this country were the 41 models and production was stopped on those immediately after Pearl Harbor. My dad had just purchased a 40 chevy a few months before and it wasn’t until 1946 that car production got going again. Right after the war we were amazed to see the first Buicks that came out. They had three holes in the front fenders! Snazzy!

Rick

(Hey Rick… I think you meant that the Blitz on France didn’t start until may ‘40. The Nazis used the Blitz on Poland in Sept of ‘39 to kick off WWII.)

sink in car fender
does it have a disposal
crazy foreigners

Rick