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Auto Union Album (1ère édition)
The car’s Teutonic name not unnaturally created the impression that it had been the product of Fry (Frei) and Caesar (Kaiser) – with a dash of Porsche’s Auto Union Pwagen thrown-in for good measure.
Whereas in fact Dick Caesar had only been consulted, before and after its construction; David Fry was only an 18 year old, in his gap-year between school and university at the time; and Joe Fry never even set eyes on it until Hugh had already driven the completed car at Backwell. In all the riot of germanification there was no acknowledgement of its actual creator, a situation that Rob Dunsterville was determined to put right when he undertook to research and publish an account of the car’s true history – if at all possible during his father’s lifetime…
Fiche technique
Auto Union Album (1ère édition)
Grand-Prix-Report Auto Union 1934-1939