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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