Just for that, I'm gonna go see if I can find me a Trabant, turn it into a right hand drive, and then dump a 322 Straight 8 with a blower in it; - the carbs will hang out the left side window and the driver's seat will be beside the distributor, ain't no NSU Prinz that's gonna beat me! Go for it Lucas, I'd love to see what you can do to that thing, 'cept I'd use a Nailhead, just because it's narrower (and prettier IMHO) and you don't need a computer...but, the Vortec will do, easier to get parts. Man, it would be sick... Take Jason with you; that'll leave more money for beer and welding rods.
Man you guys slay me! Luke knows where my heads at... We discussed some rear engine corvairs that were re-tuned with Olds Toronado engines. Imagination is in the eye of the beholder! NO BIG THING used to race out at US30 in Dyer Indiana in the early 70's. It was almost hilarious. Then theres the hidden allure of a tiny gasser. Theres a lot going on with that guy. Needs 8 foot long wheely bars! Go with a 455 Buick tho! ws
Ya, speaking of such, everyone thinks our Greatgrandson is cute as well. A friend had an English Ford wagon built along the same lines as "No Big Thing". He never raced it but it got attention everywhere it went. I doubt that NSU would get anywhere near passing tech. After some serious fabrication, I'd install a V-6 Buick or a 4.3 Chevy ( have one already).
Sounds like a deal to me, you can be the one armed bandit, Joe. You are going to have to stay in the truck so as to not scare the poor guy though. I would, too, but Jason is going to need an interpreter.....I don't know if the spud grower will understand his dialect unless he's a fan of the Sopranos or My Cousin Vinny.
I am NOT making this up. A local guy who owned a junkyard and raced sprint cars in the 50's 60's. Built all his cars from scratch 100% stuff out of the yard going scary fast. His younger brother wanted a drag race car and they got A BMW Isetta in the yard. built it with a blower on a Pontiac engine. Told me it sat in the yard for about two weeks complete and ready to go when he chickened out and took it apart before ever racing it. the Isetta shell got set on top of A school buss in the yard (Where it remained till he died and his kids sold the yard.) and the motor put in some other car. I want in..
I'm going to call at lunch or tonight. If the car was ever actually functioning or was ever more than just a lawn ornament, I may have something else to play with. The hole in the hood makes me think it had real aspirations of being a mini gasser at one point, but the way the front springs are mounted say "static display". I'll let ya'll know what I find out, but keep the stories and posts coming. This could be a lot of fun.
On a good pass you don't steer anyways as the front tires are barely touching the ground It's all about wheel speed.......
IF I do it, it'll be getting that Vortec I've got sitting to keep costs down. Already have a Victor, carb, HEI, and headers for it, although I'd probably make zoomies. I've got a few TH350s around with a Chevy bolt pattern, too, although a 4 speed would be a blast.
It's going to have to end up around a G for me to be serious unless it was at least close to a functioning car at one point. The big block 466 in the F250 only pulls about 9 mpg loaded or empty, so we're looking at $250 in fuel. It has been posted off and on for a year or so......I told him I'd call him tonight in my message if I didn't hear from him. Happy sounding fella on his recording.....You know I got this, Sensei 'Strich
It’d be like strapping a JATO rocket to a go kart once you hit the gas. That thought alone makes it a necessary purchase....
So I talked to Harold last night. Harold is a really nice guy and likes to talk about his 27 classics he's got, including many Corvettes. Basically, the NSU was the previous owner's car show cruiser instead of a pit bike. It has an electric motor hooked up to a chain drive to the 9" rear end. The front axle is a Speedway kit for a Model T, and has the steering wheel mounted vertically like one of those. It has old school slots front and rear, and the body is really good including the floor, and all the glass is there. This is a deluxe model, don't you know? With wing windows! There's no chassis, everything is just kind of half-azz welded into place to the body and floor, but it was good enough for cruising the fairgrounds at 5 mph. So long story short, after a lot of back and forth, and bouncing all over the place including my home town and what I do for a living and where he grew up all in a 10 minute conversation, it came down to me explaining that it sounds like I'm buying a body, an old straight axle, a 9" that may or may not be worthless, and a set of slots. I told him $500, because I'd have to drive to get it, and a body and some old race parts aren't worth much more than that. But it would make a really good sign for a business he says, microcars are hot, and these are $60,000 on eBay, go ahead and check! (there's one NSU on there as of this morning and its at $1,200), so he won't go under $1,600. I explain that I'm going to make a gasser out of it, he says that's what he'd really like done with it, so I say I couldn't do more than $500 again....then the same banter about his cars, microcars, and this being a good business sign that's cheaper than a piece of wood you'd have someone paint.....so $1,600 and no sale. But I still want it......
Trade the man for something he needs. Some elusive "corvette" anything is worth 6-71 blower money all week and twice on Sunday.
Personally I don't haggle the price of an item that I want to buy over the phone or net. I have found its way easier to haggle the $$$ in person face to face. Last vehicle I bought (my 95 Land Rover) I haggled the price from $500 down to $275. Seller would not drop any lower because of scrap prices. Keith
