Zündapp KS500 1937 500cc OHV Twin

 

Frame number: 172124         Engine number: 171380

Year: 1937                          Cylinder capacity: 500 cc

 

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsKIOAP9rwM

video on the run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8m0qqUga5g

 

Zündapp was a major German motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1917 in Nuremberg by Fritz Neumeyer, together with the Friedrich Krupp AG and the machine tool...

Zündapp KS600 1939 600cc OHV Twin

 

Frame Number: 503367     Engine Number: 503367
Year: 1939                             ccm: 600

Documents: old Danish road registration document

 

 

In 1932, Hans Friedrich Neumeyer planned a completely new motorcycle range of five types for the Nuremberg Zündapp factory, and to realize this he hired Richard Küchen, the famous engine and vehicle designer, as chief designer. He was given the...

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NSU OSL 501 1938 500cc OHV

 

Engine number: 336911      Frame number: 1085843

Year: 1938                          Cylinder capacity: 500 cc

Documents: original and modern Austrian road registration

 

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phPbVsyAj94

 

The history of the NSU OSL begins with a great depression. After the 500 cc motorcycles from NSU were never able to score points in competitions and racing successes were...

Year: 1930                 Cylinder capacity: 500 cc

Frame no.: 588 40446          Engine no.: 48504

Documents: British V5C road registration