{"id":9335,"date":"2009-04-16T09:26:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9335"},"modified":"2009-04-16T09:58:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:58:35","slug":"automobile-misc-hitlers-favourite-car-under-the-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=9335","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Misc. &#8211; Hitler&#8217;s Favourite Car Under The Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9336\" title=\"autounion\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/04\/autounion.jpg\" alt=\"autounion\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/autounion.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/autounion-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Did you know that the German Politician, Adolf Hitler, also the leader of the popular Nazi Party, was once an avid fan of car racing? Now as you know he was one, you might well know his favourite racer too. Well, it was Hans Stuck. And for all those who already know this prodigy, news for you would be some thing else.<\/p>\n<p>Bonhams &amp; Butterfields, that operates as an auction house in the United Kingdom, is delighted to offer for sale by auction one of the most charismatic <span class=\"kLink\" style=\"border-bottom: #9a0003 1px solid; position: relative; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: #9a0003 !important; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;\">Grand <\/span><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"border-bottom: #9a0003 1px solid; position: relative; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: #9a0003 !important; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;\">Prix<\/span> racing cars ever built, the 1939 <span class=\"kLink\" style=\"border-bottom: #9a0003 1px solid; position: relative; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: #9a0003 !important; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;\">Auto <\/span><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"border-bottom: #9a0003 1px solid; position: relative; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; color: #9a0003 !important; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;\">Union<\/span> D-Type with rear-mounted 3.0-liter twin-stage supercharged V12 cylinder engine. Touted to be the motor sport equivalent of the &#8220;Holy Grail&#8221;, the 1939 Auto Union D-Type is the only model of the car to have stayed intact to date&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/living.oneindia.in\/automobiles\/four-wheelers\/2009\/hitler-driver-car-150409.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the German Politician, Adolf Hitler, also the leader of the popular Nazi Party, was once an avid fan of car racing? Now as you know he was one, you might well know his favourite racer too. Well, it was Hans Stuck. And for all those who already know this prodigy, news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-vintage-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9361,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9335\/revisions\/9361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}