vw prinz

[lil89ram50]

hey do any of you know anything about this car? me and the gf found one, and w have been trying to find a project for her to work on, but nothing really seems to excite her.. till we found this! they want 1500 bux, everythings there, no rust, but really needs paint, and some interior work and prolly a rebuild, its at a junk yard, but not the part that scraps and parts out, they have a place where they just sell them, and its there..... really nice looking car i think... i have pics of it, but she has the camera and is out of town..

[nismo dr]

oics????? or it doesn't exist

 

its not a VW, Prinz was made by NSU, my mom had one in the 60's

 

vw bought nsu and it became audi - so it acould be a a crossover year audi/nsu but those are pretty rare as they were phasing them out

[nismo dr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSU_Prinz

[lil89ram50]

haha yea i just tried changing the title after i remembered that, and i accedintally started a the thread :(can some one please my stupid ass mistake , sorry mods

[nismo dr]

she (my mom) still talks about that car to this day, loved it.

 

I've only seen a black and white oic of it, it fit in the back her dad's pickup

[lil89ram50]

haha yea she likes my dads austin healey sprite a lil, but she has always been into big pickups, but she really really wants this car, and i want some thing for me and her to work on together

[nismo dr]

2 cyl or 4? would be a good car to put a hayabusa motor in :D

[lil89ram50]

pretty sure they were all 2 cylinders the prinz 1

[nismo dr]

yeah your right the prinz's were 2's the later nsu had ohc 4's

[nismo dr]

look like this?

 

 

[lil89ram50]

just like that! same color too, just really needs to be re-painted, but almost no bad rust, mostly surface. and motor and tranny are there, but idk if they run... but i wonder how hard it would be to put in a 4 cylinder opposed motor from a vw bug... besedes, this is just a motorcycle motor in the car, and it produces 23 hp at 5g's.

[lil89ram50]

is there any forums for these cars? or are they pretty rare?

[defdes]

Diffr'nt model, but another nice NSU on BAT: http://bringatrailer.com/2010/08/01/1969-nsu-tt-vintage-racer/

[LenRobertson]

I've always loved the Corvairish looking ones, like defdes posted the link too. Luckily they are quite rare around here, so not much danger of finding one. I imagine parts aren't easy to find for any models.

 

NSU was famous for making motorcycles too. In this clip, you can see they didn't entirely breed the bike out of the cars:

 

A few NSUs show up in this clip, and most fare better than other makes:

Better handling or more sensible drivers?

 

Len

[datzenmike]

I'll move this from General Discussion to our new V W section.<_<

[MikeRL411]

just like that! same color too, just really needs to be re-painted, but almost no bad rust, mostly surface. and motor and tranny are there, but idk if they run... but i wonder how hard it would be to put in a 4 cylinder opposed motor from a vw bug... besedes, this is just a motorcycle motor in the car, and it produces 23 hp at 5g's.

Or a Subaru engine?

[HRH]

Definitely start with a Subaru motor. Way better than bug, way more power than the original motor.

[FoxyRoadster]

I vote hayabusa engine