The big Audi 100: Pleasant travelling with a lot of comfort technology. The safe continuous speed, the great comfort and the well-balanced long-distance chassis make the Audi 100 the perfect touring saloon AUDI NSU Vorsprung durch Tehnik. 1975 Advertising for Audi 100 GL Type 104 Imagine you come directly from the competition, head a small designer department that was on the verge of being dissolved, nevertheless build & create a ready-made series car there with a small hand-picked team mostly after work, although it was expressly forbidden to him.
In the end they even had the courage to present this new car to the chairman of the board of Volkswagen AG and at the same time Beetle King Heinz Nordhoff, with the ulterior motive that they were threatened with immediate dismissal with all conceivable consequences, even though Auto Union was already on the verge of bankruptcy. It was not for nothing that Daimler, completely unnerved, sold the Ingolstadt plant to Volkswagen in 1966 and VW was pleased to have acquired a new location for its still very successful Beetle production at a favourable price.
I have been practicing vintage car photography for more than 35 years and here I mainly photograph normal everyday vehicles which were still on the road en masse over 30 years ago. But also cars with extraordinary, beautiful design. From time to time I take pictures of cars, .. Read more…