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Old 05-22-2008, 12:00 PM
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Thanks for this article. Great photos.
Would you care to tranlate the text for us?
The text in the article goes (summarised). Peter Haventon a swedish motorjournalist went to Bucharest to see if he could find any traces of the Dusenberg that Prince Nicholas of Romania competed with in the 1933-1935 Le Mans race and the Alfa Romeo discused in this tread. The Dusenberg turned out to be in the technical museum in Bucharest since decades so that was an easy one. On tracking down the Alfa Peter found an taxidriver who could communicate in english and interpret to Romanian, gave him some dollars and cigaretts and followed the trail as of Simon Moores book. Bingo he found the owner a Mr Croituro quite easily and was showed the car who was sitting at Mr Croituros holiday home. On the torpedowall was a plate from an 6C2300 whit Chassis/Engine 700633 and the engine in the car was indeed a 6C2300. But the number 412039 was on the frame as seen in the pictures.
More of the article is based on what is told by Simon Moore in the 412039 chapter of The Immortal 2.9. If Mr Croituro really was the owner ? Peter did get a feeling that he could not have been. But couldn´t know for sure. The car was undoubtly a 2.9 with a 2.3 engine and 412039 stamped on the frame.
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Thanks for the translation!
It will be most interesting to see where this car eventually turns up.
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Old 05-23-2008, 07:29 AM
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Björn, many thanks again for sharing the article!!!
Amazing indeed that the car remained in Romania for all those years!

A friend of mine confirmed that the registration plates on the car are from the capital Bucharest.

Propably I am not the only one who would like to know where the car is now
Whereever 412039 is located today, I regard it as possible that the current owner could get into trouble because King Michael is and was official owner of the car unless he sells - or sold - it.
Bringing the car into light could raise some desires of the legal owner...
Honestly I don't hope that the car is hidden for those reasons! I would prefer to see it on the road

Tim, concerning the Auto Union race cars that went to Russia I have the book "Dem Silber auf der Spur" Das Schicksal der Auto-Union-Rennwagen, author Nikolai Alexandrow. I am afraid it's only availaible in German.

The book is quite interesting because we learn what happened with some of the Auto Union cars and about the history of the Russian "car" industry in general. A good buy. I think you would find a copy at amazon.de.

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