pair of tasty DKW's

Nice one mate,

never even heard of them let alone seen one before! ;D

Here you go Edd, cause every day is a school day!

The DKW Monza was a sports car built on a DKW 3=6 base. Named after the world-famous Italian Grand Prix circuit, the car set five world records in 1956.

After the series of wins by the DKW 3=6 Sonderklasse in European touring car racing and rallying in 1954 and 1956, two racing drivers started to develop a sporty body for the successful model. Guenther Ahrens and Albrecht W. Mantzel designed a record-breaking car on the basis of the 3=6, incorporating an extremely lightweight plastic body built at Dannenhauer & Stauss in Stuttgart, Germany..

The complete vehicles were first built by Dannenhauer & Stauss in Stuttgart, then by Massholder in Heidelberg and lastly by the company Robert Schenk in Stuttgart.

Fritz Wenk had to discontinue his Monza production in 1958 when the new Auto Union 1000 Sp car was launched in 1957. As a result Auto Union refused to provide additional new chassis for his production of the Monza.






n December 1956 a team consisting of two Germans and two Swiss spent alternating times driving a DKW Monza around the racecourse at Monza, Italy. With an average of 140 km/h the team of drivers set up to five International records.

The glass-fiber reinforced polyester coupe body had a smaller aerodynamic resistance due to its rounded frontal area and being of a very low profile. This made it much faster than the standard DKW. Like all DKW’S of those days, the Monza had a compact chassis of the following dimensions; 1.61 meters width and 1.35 meters height, and an average weight of about 780 kilograms. This was 115 kilograms less than the DKW 3=6 limousine (4-door. Sedan).

The three cylinders of the engine, which performs two strokes with each crankshaft full rotation, perform much like a four stroke engine. With the complete rotation cycle of the three-cylinder DKW engine, DKW people thought of it as a “6” of a six cylinder machine. Consequently the use of the emblem, “3=6”.

Three cylinders of a total capacity of 900 cc and 40 hp were enough in order to provide acceleration of the 3=6 sedan model to 125 km/h. It could also provide an acceleration of 0-100 km/h in 31 seconds. With the same engine the Monza could reach 140 km/h and accelerate from 0-100 km/h in 20 seconds.



In addition, conflicting reports as to the actual numbers built has been circulated. One of the reasons for this is that there was never an accurate record kept. With several companies making them at various times it was difficult to maintain a good production record. Therefore, it was very difficult to suggest a final production report on the actual number of Monza’s built.
Making it more difficult was the additional used vehicles at the company and Monza kits that were sold to the public.
The number of produced Monza’s varies between 230- 240, (Theoretically possible, according to letters of Wenk to Massholder and Schenk and dealers, but not verified.) to 155 to 53.
According to the realistic number of items appear to be about 70 - 80 . Today there are about 30 to 35 existing cars known.

Go for it mate.

You find one and i´ll drag it over to the farm!

There's a turbo in your future now I hope Mr &D

Stuff the turbo - V6 Warty FTW!!

*attaches jump leads* I found the first picture in this thread when hunting for something interesting and it did not disappoint.