Davestuff

I can only hope that someday, Mark Mroz's '72 Polara CHP makes it into print. Cause it's, you know, awesome. I hate shooting things and then having them hang around forever.

I got a nice letter today from Ken Gluckman, a DaimlerChrysler Associate General Counsel and vice president, who's been following my exclusive series on the Christie's Auto Union . His email followed by a matter of minutes an off-the-record conversation with Christie's...I'm feeling like a bigshot today: I have been reading your blog for a while and have followed the story of the Auto Union car with great interest. Last year I was lucky enough to visit the Riga auto museum. While there I saw the original Auto Union racer, which I immediately recognized from the photos in the blog. I was told that this original car was sent to Audi some years ago and they helped restore it (and displayed it in their museum for a while). The original restored car was eventually returned to the museum, but while Audi had it, they made a copy, which is the vehicle now on display in their museum. I am attaching a photo of the car -- sorry it isn't better, but we weren't tryin...