1938 racing car completed

[Jon MW]

I finnished this little 1/32 car a week ago. It's a Auto Union Type D by Revell. The kit has som realy nice details, so I was thinking of adding some wires. But the body panels fit so bad that it was build box stock.

[p9o1r1sche]

Decent detail for a 1/32 scale kit. Looks like a good build, too. Too bad the wire wheels arent better.

[Vric]

Look really great !

I must try to do something like that one day

[RallyRaider]

Great work! I wish there was more of these older cars in 1:24th and 1:20th.

[Layla's Keeper]

That does look soo cool. Always preferred the Scuderia Ferrari's Alfa Romeos (Nuvolari was the 'effin man) to the Auto Union cars, but you'll never hear me say that the AU cars weren't awesome.

[RallyRaider]

Hey, Tazio drove for Auto Union too you know
Including (if I'm not mistaken) this very car, the Type D.

[Layla's Keeper]

True. No denying that.

Tazio Nuvolari was one helluva a driver in general. He was like Fangio or Senna or Villeneuve.

Not to mention he was one of Il Commendatore's favorites. I love this piece Enzo Ferrari wrote about riding with Nuvolari in a Gran Prix car.

"At the first bend, I had the clear sensation that Tazio had taken it badly and that we would end up in the ditch; I felt myself stiffen as I waited for the crunch. Instead, we found ourselves on the next straight with the car in a perfect position. I looked at him, his rugged face was calm, just as it always was, and certainly not the face of someone who had just escaped a hair-raising spin. I had the same sensation at the second bend. By the fourth or fifth bend I began to understand; in the meantime, I had noticed that through the entire bend Tazio did not lift his foot from the accelerator, and that, in fact, it was flat on the floor. As bend followed bend, I discovered his secret. Nuvolari entered the bend somewhat earlier than my driver's instinct would have told me to. But he went into the bend in an unusual way: with one movement he aimed the nose of the car at the inside edge, just where the curve itself started. His foot was flat down, and he had obviously changed down to the right gear before going through this fearsome rigmarole. In this way he put the car into a four-wheel drift, making the most of the thrust of the centrifugal force and keeping it on the road with the traction of the driving wheels. Throughout the bend the car shaved the inside edge, and when the bend turned into the straight the car was in the normal position for accelerating down it, with no need for any corrections."

[Jarrod Li]

Originally Posted by Layla's Keeper

But he went into the bend in an unusual way: with one movement he aimed the nose of the car at the inside edge, just where the curve itself started. His foot was flat down, and he had obviously changed down to the right gear before going through this fearsome rigmarole. In this way he put the car into a four-wheel drift, making the most of the thrust of the centrifugal force and keeping it on the road with the traction of the driving wheels. Throughout the bend the car shaved the inside edge, and when the bend turned into the straight the car was in the normal position for accelerating down it, with no need for any corrections."

Hmm...seems not only was he a great racer but one of the original (if not the original) drift gods!