[alfa] Alfa Guilia SS and NSU Prinz similarity?

["Benjamin Woenig" <budweiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am currently working as an IT geek. I drive around all day helping
clients with internet installations and running servers in business
environments.

Yesterday, I was driving home after job north of Adelaide (South
Australia).
Heading back towards the city, I spotted in the corner of my eye what
looked like an Alfa with a For Sale sign stuck in the window. Out of
curiosity more than anything I turned around and drove into the property
to take a closer look.

It was an NSU Prinz coupe, a tiny little car with remarkably similar
lines
to Alfa's efforts with the 101 and 750 series coupes. The Bertone badge
on
the side of the front guards explained why!

http://www.philseed.com/nsusport.html

There was a large shed on the property, and I could hear machinery
inside.
I walked around the side and found a door sort of hidden. The place was
really saying "if you don't know what the place is, you don't need to be
here". I walked into the door anyway, and it turned out to be a
reception
area. The room was in darkness and it took a while for my eyes to adjust
from the hot sun outside. This old gentleman sitting in an arm chair
says
"hi, how are you?". I just asked him about the car outside, and he said
it was his, since new in 1962. He wanted $6000 - $7000Aus for it, and it
has a 2 cylinder 4 stroke rear engine with around 30hp. Aside from aging
paint,
the car was totally complete and straight. He went on to tell me he was
a  semi-retired mechanical engineer, and the place was an engineering
firm
that his kids now ran, except they specialise in minuture machinery and
models.
There were miniture steam engines, pumps, lathes, milling machines
sitting
on the floor and in a glass cabinet, that had all been built by him and
his family. The build quality was amazing. The attention to detail was
perfect on all of these gadgets and machines...

He showed me a picture on the wall of a V6 engine he told me he designed
and built for a racing car in the 1950's. It was 1.5L, quad cam, and
developed
350hp at 11,000rpm. He said that Ferrari eventually used a variation of
his
engine in the 1980's with turbo chargers and obtained over 900hp. "They
could
never acheive that with the Dino engine..." he said.

He told me had owned several Alfa's too. His first being a 1923 vehicle,
which
"cost me more than twice the cost of a Rolls Royce". That car recently
sold
at a UK auction for more than $4 million. He had also owned a Montreal,
and various
105 series'. A 1950's Ferrari racing car, and a 308GTB. And a 2000GT. As
in,
Toyota 2000GT!

He said that Japanese collectors have been contacting him for the last
20 years
trying to buy the car he has owned since new, apparently the only
Australian
delivered 2000GT.

So there you go, a glance at a strange car led me to meeting a very
interesting
old guy. He said I was welcome to come back another time and take a look
at his
"collection".

If anyone is interested in the NSU or the Ferrari GTB which are both for
sale,
please contact me and I will forward his contact details. Incidently the
GTB
is apprently in near show room condition.

Back to work :)
Benjamin W.
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