The NSU Prinz was manufactured between 1958 and 1968 over in Germany. 20,000 of them (give or take) were sold during that decade. We are guessing a very small percentage of those cars traveled to the good ol’ USA and we’re guessing that this is the only one that was ever turned into drag car. We may be going out on a limb there, but probably not. Equipped from the factory (if this really is a 1958 model) with an inline two cylinder engine that displaced little more than 35ci, it was not exactly a machine designed to blister the highways and byways with speed and acceleration.
That being said, the cars were of light construction and hey, hot rodders have certainly made due with smaller cars before, right? That spurred someone into looking at this Prinz at some point in his life and deciding to make a drag racing car out of if. Because it was not weird enough to start with a Prinz, this guy added some fun by powering the thing with a Buick V6 engine. No, not a turbocharged Buick V6 but an iron headed, four bbl carb equipped, HEI packing bent six that is claimed to make some 532hp. It is also listed as a Pontiac V6 but we’re not chalking that up to anything.
The seller claims that the car made one pass and went into the 10.80s and was then booted from track for safety reasons. The guy has to leave his current state of residence for family issues that is why this car is being sold.
There’s lots of interesting stuff with this one and frankly if it was blown apart and repackaged with a new motor, new paint, and upgraded chassis it would be one interesting and unique little car. Right now the thing is an oddball and not in the best sense of the word.
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Sell the V6 and slot in a screaming 3 rotor turbo Mazda rotary. In fact if a new chassis was built it could revert to its original rear-engined configuration which would help to get all that power down to the rear wheels. Then go out and break the 9 second barrier and deafen everyone within a 2 mile radius in the process…
I know of a Prinz being built in the UK with a tube frame and a turbo VW flat four in the back. The motor ran 10’s in an all steel beetle so 9’s shouldn’t be far away!
Why on earth (or whatever planet you live on) do you think this thing is FWD???
Pretty obvious it has a transmission in that tunnel.
Pontiac label aside, the 4.6 could be sorta correct. 4.5L Buick V6’s aren’t uncommon for Stage II racing pieces. However, this thing is a Stage II block it certainly is wearing production heads and what looks like a production 4.1L intake most likely though it might be KB #1. My guess is you’re looking at an 79-84 4.1L production motor with an intake and other basic bolt ons. I might be convinced of 300hp NA but no more even on race gas. You just can’t spin the production blocks fast enough to try to RPM your way too power on these things.
It sold for $3000 which is probably fair for the parts you could pull out of it. You could sell the body and chassis to a small-engine import racer.
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