Looks a lot like the 1600 or 2002 series BMW.
Rick Fisk wrote:
> I have a photo of an NSU Prinz vintage racer. The photo was taken last
> summer at Waterford Hills Raceway in Waterford, MI. The vintage races are
> associated with the Meadow Brook Hall Concours d'Elegance held every August.
> The NSU was grouped with the Sprites, Midgets, Minis, and a beautiful little
> Turner. Didn't stand a chance against the Minis but was fun to watch.
>
> http://www.concentric.net/~rickfisk/nsuprinz.jpg
>
> Rick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Fornal" <toyman@digitex.net>
> To: "David Wood" <dewood@sentex.net>
> Cc: "Spridgets mailing list" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 6:25 PM
> Subject: Re: What's an NSU - no LBC just LGC
>
> > 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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