[Vwdiesel] Nice Audi

[mark shepherd]

It woulsd appear thatonly I like it :o(

I'm sure ZZTop could put it on the front cover of a pending 'green' album... 
Although I get the impression, that the fuel economy was poor.

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herold, Walter L" <Walter.Herold at cengllc.com>
To: "'Tad'" <tadc at europa.com>; <ross at hypertools.com>
Cc: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Nice Audi


>
> DKW stands for "Deutsche Kraftwagen Werke" meaning "German Motorcar 
> Works". ...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On 
> Behalf Of Tad
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 9:26 PM
> To: ross at hypertools.com
> Cc: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Nice Audi
>
> So Oldsmobile (obviously), and... what's the other company named after 
> Olds?
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:10 PM, David Ross <ross at hypertools.com> wrote:
>
>> Full credit to Mr. Toensing in spite of misspelling "Horch".
>>
>> August Horch is (almost) in the exclusive company of Ransom E. Olds, in
>> that he (almost) had two auto manufacturing companies named after him -
>> Horch & Audi.  "Almost", because Audi is the latin word for the German
>> Horch, meaning 'hear' or 'hark' or 'listen'.
>>
>> This and much more fascinating German auto trivia at "The History of the
>> Four Rings" (Audi Official History--Copyright Audi AG) at:
>> <http://www.seriouswheels.com/art-four-rings-1.htm>
>>
>> Dave Ross    N7EPI
>>
>>
>>
>> William J Toensing wrote:
>> > The 4 circles represents the Auto Union or the merger of Horsh, 
>> > Wanderer,
>> Audi, & DKW. As I recall, stood for in German, "The Small Wonder". The 
>> Horsh
>> was an expensive car that competed with the Maybach  & big Mercedes. It &
>> the Wandurer died during WW2. After the war, as I recall, what ended up 
>> in
>> the DDR or East Germany of Auto Union became the Wartburg.
>> > Back in 1964 I owned for a short period of time, a 1958 DKW having
>> swapped a rusty 1955 Nash Ambassador V-8 for it. It had a 4 speed
>> transmission on the steering column but the shift patturn was backwards, 
>> as
>> I recall. If I recall correctly, low was where low was on an American 3
>> speed column shift. second was where reverse was on an American car, 3rd 
>> was
>> where high was on an American car, & the DKW high was where 2ed was on am
>> American car. The DKW had a 2 cycle engine & mine was a 2 door hardtop.
>> > Bill Toensing, Nevada City, CA
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