Re: Audi-VW bed-sharing stuff

[Psycho Bob <honge@creighton.edu>]

> > Audi, if I remember correctly, was formed by 4 companies -- DKW, 
> > Wanderer, Horch, and Audi -- hense the 4 rings. This joint group, called 
> 
> A guy in Frankenmuth (a couple towns over from me) restored a 
> '40-something Horch (and got written up by the local paper).  It had 
> the 4 rings we know so well on it's grille.  So, unless he 
> retrofitted an Audi badge, I doubt the 4 rings symbolised the union 
> of 4 auto companies.

The 4 intertwined rings does symbolize the union -- which took place in 
1932 during Europe's depression days, as these 4 comparies were 
struggling to make it finiancially.

On the other hand, a 40s *German* auto would be rare indeed -- in the 
midst of WWII and all (unless its model year is in the very beginning of 
40s or at the very end of 40s).

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