To paraphrase the words of another mechanical, Teutonic masterpiece, ‘I’ll be back’ said the 1939 Auto Union D-Type to the auction world. The world of car auctions is one where intrigue and obscurity is the norm, and even the most normal and well meaning of cars might not be what they seem to be. When those cars are highly desirable, rare and worth considerable amounts of money, all of that gets cranked up to stratospheric levels along with the money that’s being thrown around.
Such is the case with the car we have here. It’s a 1939 Auto Union D-Type grand prix car, one of only a handful in existence, and a car that very, very rarely comes up for sale, and one that was going to be auctioned a few months ago, then hastily withdrawn. So what gives? What’s the story here?
