1961 DKW 1000 vs 1962 NSU Prinz

When you are stuck in a coronavirus quarantine you start to appreciate the little things in life.  Such as choices.  Do you eat bologna or cotto salami in your white bread sandwich? Do you walk clockwise around your block or counter clockwise? Do you walk in the street to avoid the oncoming neighbor or step onto someone's lawn?  But the real choice that you've been dreaming out is -- do you get this 1961 DKW 1000 or this 1962 NSU Prinz offered by the same seller for $2000 ($1490 USD) and $2200 ($1571 USD) respectively located in Lethbridge, AB, Canada.  Tips from Erik202.

10k: Der Liddle Schtinker: 1967 NSU TTS Prinz

Popular culture regularly tells us that it is good to be different.  Bristol-Myers Co ran a commercial ad campaign a few that described Nuprin as-- Little. Yellow. Different. Better. Unfortunately the product didn't do well in the Asian communities because they felt it was a racial slur and Nuprin was ultimately a failure, but the need to be different continues to be a driving force in day-to-day decision making. Being different for a car guy can be as simple as driving anything from AMC for your classic, or you can go off the deep end with something like this 1967 NSU TTS offered here on craigslist for $9,500 near Cleveland, OH.

5k: The Other Rear Engined German: 1967 NSU Prinz 1000TT

The NSU Prinz was a small rear-engined West German built city car, intially powered by an inline-twin cylinder air cooled engine, something that was better fit to power a motorcycle.  Production started in 1957 and ended when Volkswagen Auto Group acquired NSU and merged it into one ring of the Audi group.  The Prinz was a unique car, but it conflicted with the VW Type 1, Type 3 as well as Audi's 50 series, so it was canceled in 1973.  Find this 1967 NSU Prinz 1000TT currently bidding for $3,103 reserve-not-met on ebay with less than 24 hrs to go, located in Santa Clarita, CA.

2k: Pauper's Price: 1967 NSU Prinz 1000

The NSU Prinz 1000 was a small rear-engined West German built city car powered by an inline-twin cylinder air cooled engine, something that was better fit to power a motorcycle.  Production started in 1957 and ended in 1973 when Volkswagen Auto Group acquired NSU and merged it into one ring of the Audi group.  The Prinz was a unique car, but it conflicted with VW's type 2 as well as Audi's 50 series, so it went extinct.  Find this 1967 NSU Prinz 1000 for sale in Orlando, FL for $2,500 via craigslist.  Tip from J Bourne.

10k: Prinz Of Darkness: 1965 NSU Sport Prinz 1200cc Swap

NSU Motorenwerke AG was a small company from Germany that started life producing bicycles, later motorcycles and finally automobiles.  NSU was aquired by the Volkswagen Group in 1969, was subsequently merged with Audi and its eclectic collection of 2-stroke and rotary powered vehicles faded into history.  Relight the glory days of NSU's prime by picking up this 1965 NSU Sport Prinz with a 1200cc 4-cyl swap for the prinzly sum of £6850 GPB ($10,491 USD), located in Romsey, Hampshire, UK via carandclassic.co.uk.