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 at 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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