The Silver Arrows image thread

[FoxHound]

Some gorgeous sketch and artwork in this video, with a heady nod of nostalgia. Emotive for me at least...
The music? Parade by Rone.

Enjoy, silberpfeil-istas.

[MadMatt]

The 1930s always had a special place in my heart. Brave men, awesome machines and history context made that period the golden era for me.





You cannot beat these monster on the Nürburgring:



Look at the Auto Union sideways as the Mercedes follow the line. Awesome!

[strad]

AutoUnion video
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http://www.stradsplace.com/VIDEOS/AutoUnion.mpg
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Speed run on the Autobahn
http://www.stradsplace.com/VIDEOS/autobahnspeedrun.mpeg

[Skippon]

Lovely Pics....
What u can't get is the immensity of the sound!!!
I've stood next to W125 and W196 running, W125 was almost painful at idle!!

[strad]

Racing Mercedes
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http://www.stradsplace.com/VIDEOS/Racing_Mercedes.wmv

[Manoah2u]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ok92T4mBPv0/T ... r_Avus.jpg

nazi flag gives a bitter taste here though, but nice shots.

[Emerson.F]

[J.A.W.]

Too be fair, ol' Adolf was both an aesthete & a motorhead,
& it was this personal interest that ensured those fabulously futuristic machines had state backing..

[strad]

Emerson.F;
Some nice ones .. Thanks
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I post this 1937 video because there is some nice shots of the cars in action
http://www.stradsplace.com/VIDEOS/1937_ ... rterly.wmv

[strad]

1937 Caracciola

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1937 Rosemyer at Brno

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1936 Caracciola at the Eifelrennen

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1936 Monaco .. Caracciola

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1937 Monaco

[MadMatt]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ok92T4mBPv0/T ... r_Avus.jpg

nazi flag gives a bitter taste here though, but nice shots.

Sorry I couldn't resist, but does that not bother you seeing when there is the Chinese GP:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/asia/china/flag.GIF

Yes, a communist country. The same communist country that still continues to murder people on political and other reasons. A death count probably at least 10 times bigger than the number of people killed by the Nazis. Not to mention that the same communists, but Russians this time (with Staline) murdered a number of people also at least 10 times bigger, in their gulags. Oh and what about communist North-Korea?

I am not excusing anything from the Nazis but if you decide to criticize something, then why do you make a difference. Because they were Germans? This is a part of History that Germans are not proud of, but that happened, so let it be History. I find such image that shows the truth extremely powerful.

Sorry for the off-topic. To compensate, I have this picture:



Fantastic isn't it?

[Blanchimont]

Matt, this last picture, is it from the Großglockner Bergrennen?

The 1930s were a wild era in the Alps, alot of hill climbs happened back then. In Bavaria, the Kesselbergrennen( http://www.active-magazin.com/wp-conten ... ild-14.png ) was a great event where in 1934 Hans Stuck drove an Auto Union car. The "track" is still in use and some years later Hans Joachim Stuck went up, too( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enG-XzZrg68 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3R6IfdhG2Q ). Today's inofficial races look like that( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7tKGg0wCA ).


http://www.technischesmuseum.at/motorsp ... cleid/2479


With the help of the search on the right side, many older pictures are available ( http://www.technischesmuseum.at/home/sa ... %C3%A4hlen )



http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/C ... -5018/6286

[MadMatt]

I don't know when or where it was taken, but it definitely looks like during a hill climb race, yes.



At Monza, but rencently of course! Still a nice picture

[strad]

Blanchimont;
Thanks for the link

[MadMatt]

Nobody posted a picture of the Auto Union Type-C 6 wheeler:



At Shelsley Walsh in 1936.