name this audi (Audi a girls car...What!?!?)

[mr.utility at highstream.net (David Utley)]

I beg to disagree here...  I watched a documentary on Auto Union some time 
ago, and they stated that Auto Union coined that term in the thirties...  They 
set several speed records with those cars...  Mercedes may have used it later, 
but Audi had it first...
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Quoting Gordon Forbess <gforbess@attglobal.net>:

> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:38:56 -0800, Randy <sirocco81@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >Auto Union had a couple of cars in the late 30's that dominated called the 
> >"Silver Arrows"
> 
> That's a Mercedes term for their dominating LeMans cars of the early
> 50s that has been applied to their later F1 and GT cars as well.
> Supposedly one of their cars was just over the weight limit for a race
> and the paint was stripped at the last moment, revealing the aluminum
> skin. 
> Gordon
> 75 Scirocco/Drake 1.9
> http://pws.prserv.net/gforbess/scirocco/scirocco.htm
> 
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