Brendan Moore - S.F. - CA - USA

[YoUhimhER]

where about in pacific height do u live in? i live on fillmore and eddy during weekdays. welcome btw.

 

[Brendan Moore]

where about in pacific height do u live in? i live on fillmore and eddy during weekdays. welcome btw.

Fillmore and Washington - thanks for the welcome.

 

[cawimmer430]

No, not an Ro80 - although I have always wanted to own one. Stll do, really - ideally upfitted with a Mazda rotary engine. I love those cars.

I owned a Prinz 1000. I really liked that little car, and it was very well screwed together. But, I lived in New Orleans then and it was very difficult to gets parts and good service on the car. I owned quite a few cars at the same time at that moment, so I sold it.

I have also always had a thing for Corvairs, Hillman Imps, Porsches, VWs, Tatras, etc.; lots of rear-engined cars.

I've owned a lot of odd-duck cars and then I've also owned some "orphans"; you know, cars that were more or less abandoned by their manufacturer in the U.S., like the Corvair. Or a Humber Super Snipe. Or an Alfa Romeo 164S.

Thank you for the reply and interesting information.

I see you have a passion for cars that deserved more respect but didn't get any. I'm like that too, in some cases.

By the way, did NSU sell cars in the US?

 

[Brendan Moore]

Thank you for the reply and interesting information.

I see you have a passion for cars that deserved more respect but didn't get any. I'm like that too, in some cases.

By the way, did NSU sell cars in the US?

As far as I know, NSU cars were imported to the United States only by Valiant Motors Import Co., Inc., 201-07 West Grand Street, Elizabeth, NJ 07202. NSU supported this distributor with parts and service but never set up shop here in the States. From what I understand, they were ready to take the plunge and then the rotary engines started going bad in the Ro80 models and then they had bigger problems to worry about.

Also, quite a few NSU cars were brought in by U.S. Armed Forces personnel returning from Germany.

But, all of that notwithstanding, an NSU of any kind is now a very rare sight indeed in the States.

I always liked NSU - where would Mazda be without all the early work done on the rotary by NSU, or for that matter, would VW have ever brought out the Golf had it not been for the NSU K70?

 

[NarutoRamen]

Welcome to the Forum Brenden. Sorry about welcoming you kind of late...but then again, in my defense You did accidently contact me because you thought I was a mod...LOL

I lived in the Bay and went to school at Academy of Art in the Van Ness/Washington Building. Lots of old school cars in that building, check it out some day.

 

[Brendan Moore]

Welcome to the Forum Brenden. Sorry about welcoming you kind of late...but then again, in my defense You did accidently contact me because you thought I was a mod...LOL

I lived in the Bay and went to school at Academy of Art in the Van Ness/Washington Building. Lots of old school cars in that building, check it out some day.

Yeah, I've been in there - my wife is a graduate of Academy of Art University (Architecture), so I got the chance to go in there once. Lots of nice iron in that collection.

Thanks for the welcome.

 

[NarutoRamen]

Yeah, I've been in there - my wife is a graduate of Academy of Art University (Architecture), so I got the chance to go in there once. Lots of nice iron in that collection.

Thanks for the welcome.

So your wife graduated from that school huh. That nice, I don't know how much you know about the school but all the programs are in different buildings and the building I was in was for Industrial Design and it was freakin sausage fest there...LOL But yeah, the sexiest thing we had to look at were the cars.

I didn't graduate from that school...I left because I didn't like it there. I don't know about the rest but for my department, they care too much things that don't matter than the actual crap they're supposed to teach you.

 

[cawimmer430]

As far as I know, NSU cars were imported to the United States only by Valiant Motors Import Co., Inc., 201-07 West Grand Street, Elizabeth, NJ 07202. NSU supported this distributor with parts and service but never set up shop here in the States. From what I understand, they were ready to take the plunge and then the rotary engines started going bad in the Ro80 models and then they had bigger problems to worry about.

Also, quite a few NSU cars were brought in by U.S. Armed Forces personnel returning from Germany.

But, all of that notwithstanding, an NSU of any kind is now a very rare sight indeed in the States.

I always liked NSU - where would Mazda be without all the early work done on the rotary by NSU, or for that matter, would VW have ever brought out the Golf had it not been for the NSU K70?

Thanks for the info.

I have a few scans (in German) of a Mercedes R107 SL (1970-1989) that was owned by Felix Wankel which had a rotary engine installed. Will post and translate it sometime soon I hope. Funny thing is that Felix Wankel never made a driver's license!