Half a car is double the work (UPDATE: more skeletons!)

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Last week the Audi Museum in Ingolstadt, Germany took receipt of their latest exhibition, a 1925 Audi 18/70 hp Type M. However, this is not just any ordinary Audi, it’s a very special saloon that you can look at both ways. First check the right side (click!) and then look at the other side (click!). Beautiful, isn’t she? The Audi Museum wanted a cutaway model to give their visitors an insight into the technology of that time, the way materials were used and the craftsmanship that went into making such an automobile. Every single detail, however tiny, is visible. The project was done by Rosenow, a specialist in Classic Car restoration. The body of the Audi, which was originally built by the Zittau-based company Gustav Winter, had survived but was in poor condition. It took Rosenow 4500 hours and three and a half year to finish this project. The end result looks well worth a visit to the museum. (photos courtesy Audi AG) (RB)

Update IV from John Hearne: “The comment from Gerard Lansink re the use of Beech as a bodybuilding timber may well be correct with Northern Hemisphere Beech but not so for the Southern Hemisphere variety which is Southland Beech from New Zealand. This variety as Mark Dawber quite correctly states has been used most successfully on many coachbuilt bodies over a great number of years. The message here is that not all timber varieties have the same qualities in other parts of the world.”
Update III by Robert Rampton: “Earlier this year my wife and I visited the Reynolds-Alberta Transportation Museum in Wetaskiwin, Canada. Just as you enter the main exhibit hall, there is this incredible display of a 1930's coupe that is only half restored - right down the middle. Junker on one side and beautiful dark green car on the other. A true display of the art of restoration. How they did it, I'll never figure out.”
Update II by Gerard Lansink who doubts that the Power House Museum used BEECH: “In 1935 Hornich in Merane working for DKW on the F5 Roadster was many times in fault using it. The DKW supervisors have more times refused to take of the bodies which had BEECH wood in it. When sawn beech wood is laying for long time with out move, it will die. You can use it for dashboards etc.”
Update I by Mark Dawber: “The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia, has a 'skeleton' Holden sedan body from about 1930 which shows all of the different types of timber used in it - about six different species, from memory - I saw it in 1993 and I presume it is still there. Interestingly one of the timbers used was Southland (New Zealand) Beech. This timber is popular today with people restoring woodwork in car bodies.”

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