Restoration of a barn find.

rugbyman

Sometime ago you may recall , the best thing i did this year was to give away a NSU Prinz. Which i had left out in the rain for 3 years following the 20 years it had lived in a shed. I called in to the chap who now owns it and has spent a lot of hours on it. Here are some pics.

the car was in very good condition in places, though the sills here were rotten.

several days work went into cleaning the wheels and painting them white, brand new tyres were fitted.

New wing fitted to driver side



some amazing good metal in here, you can see the new wing that was fitted.

kev1.3s

nice to see it being resurrected, do you have any before pics?

rugbyman

I dont know if he took any before pics. To restore a car and not do so is a sort of a minor crime. imo.

I bought two of these from the Uk on Ebay, left them in a another persons yard while I was being harassed by the County Council. After two years, one of them disappeared and I did not ask. I gave the other one ,this one ,to a good home ,for the price of a cup of tea. Pity i had not done it a year earlier and given two cars, could have had a scone as well

Pics of the mechanical rebuild to follow when my son puts them up.

All being well ,plans to be out this summer

If anyone on here has any parts to donate or knows of any pls PM me.

There is an NSU fan in this country who has lots of old stock,new parts and quite a number of them are going into this car.

More later

Rugbyman

rugbyman

I dont know if he took any before pics. To restore a car and not do so is a sort of a minor crime. imo.

I bought two of these some years ago, left them in a another persons yard while I was being harassed by the County Council. After two years, one of them disappeared and I did not ask. I gave the other one ,this one ,to a good home ,for the price of a cup of tea. Pity i had not done it a year earlier and given two cars, could have had a scone as well!

Pics of the mechanical rebuild to follow when my son puts them up.

All being well ,plans to be out this summer

If anyone on here has any parts to donate or knows of any pls PM me.

There is an NSU fan in this country who has lots of old stock,new parts and quite a number of them are going into this car.

More later

Rugbyman

rotorhead

Hi Rugbyman

Have a look at [URL="http:///www.nsuclubireland.com"]http:///www.nsuclubireland.com[/URL] The club caters for all NSU's from 2 wheeled to wankel powered. There is a stock of parts available to club members. Contact details are on the website ,membership is €20 per year.

rugbyman

Thanks Rotorhead
the fellow doing this car is a member and knows all the connections. Irl,Uk And Germany
He is spending more money than he has available on this car , he is not envisaging this car not being perfect(ok teacher double negative).

I just mentioned the bits comment as a maybe, maybe someone has a new part somewhere that they would donate,even something he already has can be bartered with somone else, I know that in donating the car ,i did the best thing (for me)
The engine is completely reconditioned, details with pics later.

Rugbyman

MercMad

Cool, thanks for posting Rugbyman !

I used to absolutely hate those things with a passion, they were so old and odd looking when compared to contemporary cars. However I worked with a chap, when I was an apprentice, who worked at the assembly plant, and he recounted many stories with great enthusiasm. This got me interested in them and just recently I was trying to recall the last time I had seen one.

I would love to look at a good example. Anyone know if there are any TTS's left in Ireland ?

rugbyman

Engine and gearbox , rear view, on the left hand end is a dynastart. Both starter and dynamo.

front of engine, brand new clutch assembly fitted, had to be as old one was rusted solid.

Brand new cushdrives

nice view from top of engine, well cleaned up.

nice new gaskets , supplied by the NSU UK club

rotorhead

Very tasty work by your friend Rugbyman. Loooking forward to seeing him at some of our Club events.

Mercmad there is at least 6 tt's in the club some are original Irish cars.

dharn

very tough rebuild cant imagine anything in much worse state being rebuilt

MIKEKC

rotorhead wrote: »

Very tasty work by your friend Rugbyman. Loooking forward to seeing him at some of our Club events.

Mercmad there is at least 6 tt's in the club some are original Irish cars.

Havnt seen any at club events

MIKEKC

dharn wrote: »

very tough rebuild cant imagine anything in much worse state being rebuilt

Wait till you see mine will try and pics up soon

MIKEKC

Pics of Prinz4

MIKEKC wrote: »

Wait till you see mine will try and pics up soon

rugbyman

Mikekc,
you must have a heart like a lion,and hands for anything

great to see it.

rugbyman

MIKEKC

rugbyman wrote: »

Mikekc,
you must have a heart like a lion,and hands for anything

great to see it.

rugbyman

might be great to see it not too great to be working at. I learned one thing from this project that the wife can sometimes be right. She said to dump it

MIKEKC

This is my Prinz 2

rugbyman

My pal and I bought one of these, a prinz 3 for a fiver, rallied it around a quarry until it died
and left it there!

If I applied to join the owners club , that alone should get me blackballed.

Rugbyman

rotorhead

rugbyman wrote: »

My pal and I bought one of these, a prinz 3 for a fiver, rallied it around a quarry until it died
and left it there!

If I applied to join the owners club , that alone should get me blackballed.

Rugbyman

If you could find one piece we would welcome you with open arms

rotorhead

MIKEKC wrote: »

Havnt seen any at club events

Your memory is as full of holes as that Prinz your restoring . Please see your club journal 2011

dharn

never admit that the wife is right

MIKEKC

rugbyman wrote: »

My pal and I bought one of these, a prinz 3 for a fiver, rallied it around a quarry until it died
and left it there!

If I applied to join the owners club , that alone should get me blackballed.

Rugbyman

Not at all did many strange things with them in my youth. Any hope its still in the quarry

MIKEKC

dharn wrote: »

never admit that the wife is right

Doing so the odd time keeps her sweet

MIKEKC

rotorhead wrote: »

Your memory is as full of holes as that Prinz your restoring . Please see your club journal 2011

I have checked Journal and membership list , could find no genuine tt!s listed anywhere . All that sun you got last week must have affected you.[ I presume you got sun sea sand se?]

rugbyman

think there may be a bit of a misunderstanding here.

merc mad asked about tts', rotorhead answered about tt's

The fellow who is restoring the red one above has a pretty damn brilliant tt, original irish car

regards,Rugbyman

MIKEKC

rugbyman wrote: »

think there may be a bit of a misunderstanding here.

merc mad asked about tts', rotorhead answered about tt's

The fellow who is restoring the red one above has a pretty damn brilliant tt, original irish car

regards,Rugbyman

Yes Rugbyman youre dead right not too often Rotorhead gets caught out. Your friends TT would be a long way from standard, brilliant car though
Regards Mikekc

rugbyman

MIKEKC wrote: »

Not at all did many strange things with them in my youth. Any hope its still in the quarry

Forty years ago ! the bloody quarry is prob not still there. it was blue as i recall, never paid the guy the fiver,
About a year later he contacted me, and I went up and paid him, he had not been ringing about the fiver but about some query the council had about the tax book,

Regards ,Rugbman

rotorhead

MIKEKC wrote: »

Yes Rugbyman youre dead right not too often Rotorhead gets caught out. Your friends TT would be a long way from standard, brilliant car though
Regards Mikekc

Ok I may have miss placed my esses ! but by insurance co. policy never admit liability to any motoring offence

MIKEKC

rotorhead wrote: »

Ok I may have miss placed my esses ! but by insurance co. policy never admit liability to any motoring offence

It wasnt a motoring offence, as usual youre trying to wriggle out of your mistake. However we cant be too hard on you we all make them, even those of us that know about real NSU!s

rotorhead

MIKEKC wrote: »

It wasnt a motoring offence, as usual youre trying to wriggle out of your mistake. However we cant be too hard on you we all make them, even those of us that know about real NSU!s

Well not wiggle more like spinning If I have time and I tear myself away from the Supercar NSU Ro80's I will get the guys to point out the difference between a tt and tts when we go to Denmark in June.:p

MIKEKC

rotorhead wrote: »

Well not wiggle more like spinning If I have time and I tear myself away from the Supercar NSU Ro80's I will get the guys to point out the difference between a tt and tts when we go to Denmark in June.:p

Getting lonesome now that im not going, would love to educate you in these things enjoy the trip

rugbyman

gerrys prinz 4 project has been pushed to one side for the moment as he rebuilds the 1200,

here the engine resides on a bench , fully rebuilt , new pistons , clutch ,dynastart thingy, etc

Rugbyman

ianobrien

rugbyman wrote: »

gerrys prinz 4 project has been pushed to one side for the moment as he rebuilds the 1200,

here the engine resides on a bench , fully rebuilt , new pistons , clutch ,dynastart thingy, etc

Rugbyman

Loving the cans of baked beans....

rugbyman

those beans were quite nice , though the quality street and Roses were nicer

Rugbyman