Audi recovers 1939 Supercharged racer taken by the Soviet Union

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Audi has managed to buy one of the five original Auto Union racing cars still in existence from the pre-war era.

Along with two others, the car had been taken by the Soviet Union in 1945 and shipped to Russia. In the 1980s, Paul Karassik, an American collector of part-Russian extraction, managed to track down two of the now-dismantled cars and shipped them back to America – piece by piece.

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