Irish built DKW & Navigator reunited after 60 years.

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Trevor Mitchell reports: At the launch of the 2011 Cork 20 rally I met Phil o'Sullivan (seen with the car) who navigated the car in the early 50's and he recounted some great stories from those days, he was delighted to see the car again and asked me to start the car so he could hear that unique sound of the 3 cylinder 2 stroke engine once more. It is a 1953 DKW 3=6 that we have owned for many years, it is in our collection of cars here at Kilgarvan Motor Museum. It is one of the few surviving irish assembled DKW's that were built in Cork between 1952 and 1961. The car was owned by the factory owner and it was rallied and raced succesfuly in the 50's and early 60's. It competed in numerous circuit of Ireland rallies as well as the Cork 20, Circuit of Munster, Ulster trophy races, Munster 100 road races as well as many local hillclimbs.    
editor: well, Tevor, it seems your car did not suffer from a sleeping museum life. Wish that more museums were using their cars like this! 
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