I can still remember the days back in my home town in Germany when a 90-degree curve at the ice cream shop was the local hang out for teens and young adults. Everybody who thought they had a cool car had to cruise that curve more than once an evening to show off. It was the early ‘80s and I can still picture the Simca Rallys and NSU TTs going around that bend as if they were on rails. That memory is what spurred me to find myself an NSU as my next project car. It was the only real choice after having several air-cooled VW Beetle projects. Like the vintage VWs, the NSU also has a rear engine which is air cooled……but this time it is an inline four.

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Alex

Alex

Unfortunately, I don't have the place/time for a big restore project. A decent 1000 TT or TTS would be nice, though

Keep your eyes on Ebay. I see decent examples periodically on that site.

You've got a rare car there. Is it a 1000, 1000TT or 1000TTS? Would be great to see some pics .

Should be a fun car to restore if its still in fairly decent condition. If you ever decide to let it go please let me know. Easy for me to view it since I am not very far away from you

Ralph.

It's a 1000 with 2 solex carbs and headers. koni shocks and the original Goodyear Blue Streak tires.

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It's a 1000 with 2 solex carbs and headers. koni shocks and the original Goodyear Blue Streak tires.

Nice! Bet it was a lot of fun to chuck around when you Auto-X'd it

Those blue rims are something else . Have you tried starting it up and all, or are you just looking into fixing it up after being mothballed for 30(?) years? With the Solex carbs I'd guess it produced maybe 70-80 HP? Would be a fantastic little car to run the Street of Willows or the Horse Thief Mile with down in Palmdale

If you do decide to fix it up please post in this forum so that we can all see the progress.

well....this is a good time to do a restore (mechanical or complete). There are lots of parts available again for our little cars which was not the case back in the 90s. Lots of sons, original owners and old tuning shops started to make parts again to keep their love running.

I am working to get my own site running which will have pictures of parts that are available.
I have to say that being part of the NSU community is a wonderful experience. Everybody is so helpful....not only owners but shops and manufacturers of parts too.

I am waiting for a few more parts to arrive that are on their way and then I will start to assemble the suspension pieces which means part 2 (Suspension) of the project TTS should be posted then.

Alex

karsten

As for the exhaust.....I just received my custom made one by Juergen Keilhofer. All stainless with HJS Motorsports catalic converter. The motor parts are nearly all here....just waiting for Pauter for my custom rods which they are trying to make as light as possible.

Alex

Alex