Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels

My neighbor across the street thru a party, and one of the partygoers showed up in this classic. It is a USA-built 1923 custom Silver Ghost, 7 litre straight 6 engine. I learned that back in the 1920s and 30s' Rolls Royce built cars for the US market in Springfield, Massachusetts and the body coachwork was built in New Haven, Connecticut by Brewster and Co. I was not aware RRs were built in the USA, apparently thousands of them were built. Fleetwood also did some coachwork for RR as well as Packard and of course Cadillac.
Anyway, the owner of the Roller Eric, extended an invitation to come to take a look at his collection of classic cars and motorcycles (several Vincents and Brough SS) so I am hoping to get in on that this week. Very educational evening/night out the party was good too, open bar, and getting home was walking out the door and across the street.
 

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Saw this fellow waiting for the ferry from Cherbourg to Rosslare:

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I meant to post this yesterday but failed to hit the button, so today is a double post day!
 
andre g said:
It is a DKW 1000, 3 Zyl. 2 stroke, some also had the sign 3=6 in teit back, because it runs like a six zyl. 4 stroke. Later the company was named Audi.
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I saw the Audi four circles but ruled out German because it looked nice. Auto union used to have a driver called
Dick Seamen- only a German team wouldn’t have found that funny.
 
He was quite the driver winning 13 Grand Prix between the wars, but was thought to be a Nazi sympathizer and this tarnished his legacy. Nevertheless he was very fast in a time when mistakes meant death or serious injury.
 
Those Auto Union GP cars were so individual with that speed tail look, shame about their connection with XXXX.
 
The Auto-Union hill climbers used dual rear tires like an artic.

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Only a few of these survived the war, but Audi commissioned Crosswaithe and Gardner to build exact replicas a while ago. Interestingly a genuine one was found at a technical school in Riga, Latvia brought there by looting Soviet/Russian troops. Nowadays they steal clothes washers and farm equipment!
 
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The Auto-Union hill climbers used dual rear tires like an artic.

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Only a few of these survived the war, but Audi commissioned Crosswaithe and Gardner to build exact replicas a while ago. Interestingly a genuine one was found at a technical school in Riga, Latvia brought there by looting Soviet/Russian troops. Nowadays they steal clothes washers and farm equipment!
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And an original engine can be found at the bottom of lake Constance, between Switzerland and Germany. It powered a racing boat which a N. Officer forced to try out and killed himself with...
 
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