Tag: German
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DKW 3=6 FTW
If you thought Saab’s 9-3 naming was slightly confusing, you need a DKW 3=6. Post-war Auto Union, which would eventually become Audi, revived the DKW name for certain vehicles. This was one of their answers to the VW Beetle (before Audi was acquired by VW). Here we have 900cc of two-stroke, water-cooled, inline three cylinder…
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Frog or Prinz?
The NSU Prinz was one of several microcars from Germany in the late 50s and 60s. Germany was rebuilding and these tiny cars brought transportation to the masses at a low price. NSU would later be purchased by Audi, but this car was made before that. This example needs a full restoration, but most of…
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Euro Capri
Yesterday, we featured a Fox Capri. That was Mercury’s second generation of Capri. Today’s feature car was the first and was an imported Ford Europe vehicle. Note that we specify this was the first generation Mercury Capri, not the first generation Capri. The name was a hand-me-down from Lincoln and was used on full-size cars…
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AMC Body on a Mercedes Chassis? Why not?
Here you get not one, but two titles! Yes, the seller decided to take body panels from an AMC Javelin and put them onto a Mercedes “SD”, which, we assume, means a 300SD. Given neither is of body on frame construction, it seems this means the body panels were grafted onto the Mercedes unibody, but…
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Pixilated Girl Car?
It’s not clear to me whether these images are just shitty or if the pixilated, whacky paint just throws off the camera like a witnesses’ plaid shirt on the evening news. The seller here claims the car has been restored from the ground up. Yet again, I think I differ with a Craigslist seller on…
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Wankel Engine + 4×4 + Articulation. No Kidding!
Here we have an uber-rare West German Croco off-road vehicle. It floats, it has four-wheel drive AND steering and it’s powered by a Wankel. What’s not to love? Anytime you find or own a vehicle about which the best source of information is Lane Motor Museum, you’re onto something good. I thought the background in…
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Rare Lloyd Alexander Microcar
What we have here is a small-scale hoarder with a rare German microcar. I’ve heard of Lloyd Alexanders, but have never seen one in person. These followed the German microcar formula, with two-stroke twin engines in a tiny package. This version had a canvas roof for open-air cruising – likely at relatively low speed. Condition…
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I Might Have Van Envy
Here we have a German Camper by Westfalia NOT made by Volkswagen, but named after a famous explorer and cartographer. These James Cook campers seem to have quite the following on the interwebs, but it’s not clear whether any officially made it to the US. It’s definitely a cool rig, though the extra height and…
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A towing NSU?
Before you zoom into this one, you might think it’s just another cool, little microcar – an NSU Prinz, in this case. That’s what I did. That much is true, but look closely in the ‘cargo’ area and you’ll see that things get stranger than expected. Yes, that appears to be a tow hitch ball,…
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Baur E21!
We previously featured a Baur E30, which was a particularly odd best, given BMW eventually did offer a convertible version of that body. The E21 never had a factory convertible, so the Baur was the best you could do if you wanted open-air motoring and a full BMW warranty. What makes this car even cooler…