1971 super bike
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Monster bike:
Munch Mammut - rarely seen NSU car engine powered lump of bike. This is a 1971.
1.2 litre NSU car-engine ... Who said a bike-engined car was a good idea? About 100 brake (think Prinz TT).
Pretty it is not. Although beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I'd call this most impressive.
Stopping power ala 1971.
Some had one, this has two Weber 40s.
The owner - bought this in 1972 - is impressive too.
Cruiser. He mentioned the weight: 340 kgs . . .
Munch Mammut - rarely seen NSU car engine powered lump of bike. This is a 1971.
1.2 litre NSU car-engine ... Who said a bike-engined car was a good idea? About 100 brake (think Prinz TT).
Pretty it is not. Although beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I'd call this most impressive.
Stopping power ala 1971.
Some had one, this has two Weber 40s.
The owner - bought this in 1972 - is impressive too.
Cruiser. He mentioned the weight: 340 kgs . . .
srob said:
I remember them from Top Trumps too!
They're worth a fortune bow I believe. Brough Superior also did a car engined bike in the early 1930s. It had an Austin 7 engine and it had twin rear wheels. Think only one or two were built and unsuprisngly, they were on sidecars
That's what that was all about, I saw one at the NMM but never knew what it was.They're worth a fortune bow I believe. Brough Superior also did a car engined bike in the early 1930s. It had an Austin 7 engine and it had twin rear wheels. Think only one or two were built and unsuprisngly, they were on sidecars
I visited the Münch "factory" back in 1976, it was awesome.
Basically these bikes were factory customs, almost every one was different and biult to owner´s specs.
4 Megaphones, Kugelfischer injection, different tank shape, double disc brakes, no problem.
340 Kg is hefty, in order to save weight the rear wheel, fender/seat unit,
swingarm (with enclosed chain in oil bath) were done in electron cast metal.
The double headlamp unit was from the engine donor car, nice touch.
Friedel Münch was , like so many small fabricators, a great engineer but a poor salesman,
had a stroke in the 90s but is still alive, a true motorcycle legend.
Basically these bikes were factory customs, almost every one was different and biult to owner´s specs.
4 Megaphones, Kugelfischer injection, different tank shape, double disc brakes, no problem.
340 Kg is hefty, in order to save weight the rear wheel, fender/seat unit,
swingarm (with enclosed chain in oil bath) were done in electron cast metal.
The double headlamp unit was from the engine donor car, nice touch.
Friedel Münch was , like so many small fabricators, a great engineer but a poor salesman,
had a stroke in the 90s but is still alive, a true motorcycle legend.
Benni said:
The double headlamp unit was from the engine donor car, nice touch.
Friedel Münch was , like so many small fabricators, a great engineer but a poor salesman,
had a stroke in the 90s but is still alive, a true motorcycle legend.
The one above has a single headlamp but it does look like the entire rear end came off the car though ! Friedel Münch was , like so many small fabricators, a great engineer but a poor salesman,
had a stroke in the 90s but is still alive, a true motorcycle legend.
p.s. I like the obligatory fag on too
Cracking - a friend of mine has one hidden away somewhere supposedly, tho' I've never seen it.
There were a few car engine bikes (other then the obvious V8s) produced when small capacity producers wanted big easily available engines back in the seventies. There were some rather trick Hillman Imp based specials, I remember visiting Evesham Motorcycles back in the early eighties and they had an Italian take on the above, name escapes me at the moment but a serious factory effort, powered by the Fiat 127 engine - a real monster that still had the car type "H" change gearbox and weighed 950lbs (400+kgs).
The daddy tho' had to be the Amazonia - VW Beetle based and if I remember correctly produced for some third world Police/security forces... poor sods.
There were a few car engine bikes (other then the obvious V8s) produced when small capacity producers wanted big easily available engines back in the seventies. There were some rather trick Hillman Imp based specials, I remember visiting Evesham Motorcycles back in the early eighties and they had an Italian take on the above, name escapes me at the moment but a serious factory effort, powered by the Fiat 127 engine - a real monster that still had the car type "H" change gearbox and weighed 950lbs (400+kgs).
The daddy tho' had to be the Amazonia - VW Beetle based and if I remember correctly produced for some third world Police/security forces... poor sods.
spoodler said:
Cracking - a friend of mine has one hidden away somewhere supposedly, tho' I've never seen it.
There were a few car engine bikes (other then the obvious V8s) produced when small capacity producers wanted big easily available engines back in the seventies. There were some rather trick Hillman Imp based specials, I remember visiting Evesham Motorcycles back in the early eighties and they had an Italian take on the above, name escapes me at the moment but a serious factory effort, powered by the Fiat 127 engine - a real monster that still had the car type "H" change gearbox and weighed 950lbs (400+kgs).
The daddy tho' had to be the Amazonia - VW Beetle based and if I remember correctly produced for some third world Police/security forces... poor sods.
Made in brazil , which bike described it as " something they would never recommend anybody to buy" Amazonas btwThere were a few car engine bikes (other then the obvious V8s) produced when small capacity producers wanted big easily available engines back in the seventies. There were some rather trick Hillman Imp based specials, I remember visiting Evesham Motorcycles back in the early eighties and they had an Italian take on the above, name escapes me at the moment but a serious factory effort, powered by the Fiat 127 engine - a real monster that still had the car type "H" change gearbox and weighed 950lbs (400+kgs).
The daddy tho' had to be the Amazonia - VW Beetle based and if I remember correctly produced for some third world Police/security forces... poor sods.
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Edited by bimsb6 on Friday 21st June 15:57
spoodler said:
... I remember visiting Evesham Motorcycles back in the early eighties and they had an Italian take on the above, name escapes me at the moment but a serious factory effort, powered by the Fiat 127 engine - a real monster that still had the car type "H" change gearbox and weighed 950lbs (400+kgs)....
Moto Shifty. A nasty collision between a FIAT and a Laverda.Also the BFG, a French effort with the Citroen GS flat-four.
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