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The venerable auction house released only the briefest of statements which read \u201cChristie\u2019s today announced that it will postpone the sale of the 1939 Auto Union\u2013Grand Prix V12 Type D racecar from the February Retromobile sale in Paris pending further exploration into the car\u2019s race history, in collaboration with Audi Tradition.\u201d No further details were available at the time VR went to press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that caught the auction world by surprise, Christie\u2019s announced the postponement of its much-publicized sale of a 1939 Auto Union, just a week before the car was to cross the block at Retromobile. The venerable auction house released only the briefest of statements which read \u201cChristie\u2019s today announced that it will postpone the sale of the 1939 Auto Union\u2013Grand Prix V12 Type D racecar from the February Retromobile sale in Paris pending further exploration into the car\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":651626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1708,255],"tags":[1769,429],"class_list":["post-461114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auto-union","category-news","tag-auto-union","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Auto Union Shocker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Auto Union Shocker\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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