Classic Audi spotted!

[Steve Sears]

Reminds me of a meet I took my Junior to last year (1300 cars showed up -
http://www.haugensbbq.com/photos/appreciation_cruise_2002.jpg
In case you are in to playing "Where's Waldo?", I'm in the last row, about
2/3rds of the way to the left boundary, cream-coloured car, black roof, with
a crowd in front of it)
It took me about an hour to get out to the main road - the car idling most
of the time.  All of the cars were pulling out onto the road, directed by
traffic cops to proceed northbound (to the left).  The road was lined with
spectators, cheering as the "muscle cars" peeled out onto the road, drag
slicks clawing and smoking the asphalt for all they were worth.  When I
pulled up to the road, a number of people chuckled as my beetle-sized,
'57-Chev-looking car sputtered and rumbled (as only 2-strokes, or stalling
4-strokes, idle) waiting for the officer to stop the traffic.  He waved me
out and I floored it, all 36 horsepower springing to life, vapourizing the
oil in the gas (40:1 premix Belray H1R) and whatever was left in the exhaust
from the prolonged idling.  As I shifted into second (column shift, btw), I
looked in the rearview to see the crowd at the exit disappear in the
resulting fog.  The window was down, and the throng on the shoulders of the
road was suddenly quiet - so much so, I heard someone say to his
friend....."Holy sh!+!!!! Look at _THAT_!!!"
Yeah, baby, ya ask for a smokeshow....I deliver!!!!!
The SP's are, like Per wrote, like a classic T-bird in looks alone.  The 3
cylinder 2-stroke engine was "tuned" with a 2 barrel Zeinith carburetor
(instead of a 1 barrel Solex unit) to squeeze those 50 horses out of the
design.  BTW, at the time VW scrapped the 2-stroke engine development, Auto
Union engineers had developed a 6 cylinder 2-stroke which developed over 100
hp (one of which was saved and is powering a AU 1000S in Germany).
BTW, if anybody comes across an old derelict Auto Union/DKW in the
weeds/local junkyard/etc. - please contact me and I'll pass the info on to
the Club.
Thanks!
Steve Sears
1987 5kTQ
1980 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
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> To: lindgre at online.no
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:15:54 -0500
> Subject: Re: Classic Audi spotted!
> From: cobram at juno.com
>
> Yeah, but IF the other car gave you a few seconds headstart, you'd
> usually win the race....nobody could see through the smoke cloud you'd
> leave behind at full throttle.  At most they could hope to locate you via
> the chainsaw noise through the fog.
>
> I've seen alot of these old DKW's converted over to VW boxers.
>
> BCNU,
> http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
>
> Per Lindgren <lindgre at online.no> writes:
> > According to a feature I read in an issue of the German magazine
> > "Audi
> > Scene", the 100SP was known as the "Poor man's T-bird" in Germany
> > back
> > in the days. Unfortenately, the AU didnt have the power to back that
> > up,
> > as it is powered by a 3-cylinder 980 cc 2-stroke engine with a
> > whopping
> > 50 hp.