- Audi is launching its historic automobiles for the first time Kitzbüheler Alps Rally
- Route goes through the Tyrol, Salzburg and neighboring Bavaria
- Hansi Hinterseer drives a Auto Union 1000 Sp
For the first time since the establishment of Audi Tradition is involved in the historical department of AUDI AG in the Kitzbühel Alps Rally. The team is supported with the four rings in this case of celebrity guests, the clamp behind the classic car steering wheel. Hansi Hinterseer shall adopt, one of the biggest stars of popular music, from 25th on the tour to 28 May in an Auto Union 1000 Sp place.
On the Alpine roads in Tyrol, Salzburg and neighboring Bavaria meet every year around 200 vintage cars as one of the greatest classic car events in Austria. “The mountains are calling” – this motto also applies to a total of five vehicles from the historical collection of Audi Tradition. In addition to the Auto Union 1000 Sp of 1960 following cars in action: An NSU 1200 TT (1971), the DKW F91 (3 = 6) of 1954, an Audi Super 90 (1968) and an Audi 100 Coupé S in 1973.
The most striking car is undoubtedly the Auto Union 1000 Sp presented in 1957, Auto Union GmbH of Ingolstadt this new product at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt. There first models were introduced with the cc to 1000 increased three-cylinder two-stroke engine. The 1000 SP was the first two-seater sports car of the Auto Union after the Second World War and one of the most visually beautiful cars of the postwar period – clearly inspired by the American automobile design in the 1950s and here in particular of the Ford Thunderbird. The suffix “SP” stand for really special.Whether the futuristic appearance had “Sp” in the vernacular but soon a different meaning, “Sputnik”. Many experts call the Auto Union 1000 Sp still is.
[Source: Audi AG]
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