You can't call it "Prinz" anymore. It now has to be called "the car
formerly known as Prinz".
Bob
>I have a photo of what the owner said was a Prinz that I took at a car show
a
>year ago. He had taken the body and put it on a modified gas engine golf
cart
>frame. This one is a convertible. Tiny little thing.............. Now if I
can
>just remember where the photo is......
>
>David Wood wrote:
>
>> It may be a little late for this but I have not had time to put this
>> together until now.
>>
>> NSU was a german company which started making Knitting machines an
>> bicycles.
>>
>> They built their first car, a Belgain Pipe, under license in 1905. They
>> designed and built their own cars until 1929 when they stopped to build
>> Fiats and motorbikes. Both of these continued to the late 50's
>>
>> NSU started building own cars again in 1957 with the Prinz, it was a
>> basic three box design with a two cylinder air cooled engine. Bertone
>> styled a small sport coupe, the Sport Prinz, for 1959. This styling was
>> carried over to the Wankel Spider of 1964. This was the first
>> production rotary engined car.
>>
>> The rotary was used in the NSU Ro80, a contemporary sedan from 1967 to
>> 1977. The engine was described as problementry, but it was in
>> production for 10 years. So, how bad could it have been?
>>
>> NSU merged with Auto Union in 1969 which was then bought by VW. The NSU
>> reached the States as the VW K70. There is still an NSU in Germany
>> which is basically the keeper of NSU history.
>>
>> I have one picture of a Prinz at the following address:
>>
>> http://www.sentex.net/~dewood/micro_north/mn99_a1.jpg
>>
>> To see it in context, the event was Micro North. The site the pic came
>> from is:
>>
>> http://www.sentex.net/~dewood/micro_north/mn99-2.html
>>
>> Its a pig because of all the pix.
>>
>> I have no digital pictures of a Sport Prinz, which is a classy looking
>> car. The only one
>> I have seen I should have bought. If I find one I'll do a quick post.
>>
>> BTW, if anyone is interested, I have completed the info page for this
>> year's Micro North event at:
>>
>> http://www.sentex.net/~dewood/micro_north/index.html
>>
>> It will mostly be micro cars but Bugsy will be there to lend a "real
>> car" feeling to the event. Maybe I should set myself up as a rescue
>> vehicle? - Na.
>>
>> Catch you later!
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