FTS DKW NZ 350
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:02 am
My name is Achim Engels and I am from Germany.
Recently I bought the following DKW NZ 350.
frame number
628 219
engine number
1408 049
date of manufacture
1944
Unfortunately there are no original vehicle registration documents of the war time years availiable.
The first vehicle registration document I have dates back to 1958, when the vehicle is registered with a mr. Paul Möller who drove it in the German Democratic Republic (DDR) in Magdeburg.
The bike was then registered with a side car. It is not known whether or notthe side car actually was used with the bike during WWII, but I asume this unless I discover that the sidecar itself is of post war or russion manufacture. Perhaps anybody of the other forumities could shed some light on this for me. The sidecars fender does look a bit strange to, especially since I have never seen this style on any of the German war time or pre war time side cars that have been used with the Wehrmacht.
In the following I would love to show you some photographs of the bike.
First allow me to tell the following. When I received the bike it was in fairly good condition and has obviously been restored 10 or 15 years ago. Unfortunately the "dark yellow" colours used was way off from what I know so far.
My plan is to restore the vehicle fully soon. In the meantime I just deceided to fix the optical side and only give it a new paint as well as to repair all tachnical matters it has. Next week we have a local veteran vehicle show to which I would like to take it, just for fun.
From the following photographs show it right after it received its new paint. You may see that it is made to sport one of the dark yellow base painted vehicles that was camouflaged in the field with olive green and dark brown.
One of the first things my Alexandra did was to make a new number plate for the rear end of the bike.
Right after the new paint was applied....
Enjoy!
Achim
Recently I bought the following DKW NZ 350.
frame number
628 219
engine number
1408 049
date of manufacture
1944
Unfortunately there are no original vehicle registration documents of the war time years availiable.
The first vehicle registration document I have dates back to 1958, when the vehicle is registered with a mr. Paul Möller who drove it in the German Democratic Republic (DDR) in Magdeburg.
The bike was then registered with a side car. It is not known whether or notthe side car actually was used with the bike during WWII, but I asume this unless I discover that the sidecar itself is of post war or russion manufacture. Perhaps anybody of the other forumities could shed some light on this for me. The sidecars fender does look a bit strange to, especially since I have never seen this style on any of the German war time or pre war time side cars that have been used with the Wehrmacht.
In the following I would love to show you some photographs of the bike.
First allow me to tell the following. When I received the bike it was in fairly good condition and has obviously been restored 10 or 15 years ago. Unfortunately the "dark yellow" colours used was way off from what I know so far.
My plan is to restore the vehicle fully soon. In the meantime I just deceided to fix the optical side and only give it a new paint as well as to repair all tachnical matters it has. Next week we have a local veteran vehicle show to which I would like to take it, just for fun.
From the following photographs show it right after it received its new paint. You may see that it is made to sport one of the dark yellow base painted vehicles that was camouflaged in the field with olive green and dark brown.
One of the first things my Alexandra did was to make a new number plate for the rear end of the bike.
Right after the new paint was applied....
Enjoy!
Achim