Speyer and Sinshiem Museum - German & European Cars

Here is a selection of German and European classic cars on display in the Speyer and Sinshiem Technology museums. I've thrown in a few links here and there too.

Porsche 356 roadster

1950s Porsche 356

Volkswagen Karman Ghia

1956-59 BMW 503 Coupe

1929 BMW Ihle

1939 Horch 830 BL cabriolet.

Horch 930..

Wanderer W24, another of the Auto-Union stable.

1938 Rosengart LR 4N2

Tempo Hanseat 3-wheeled truck http://tempohanseat.blogspot.com/

Opel Admiral ~ early 50s

A Borgward Isabella (1954-1961) - not something you see often in Australia

NSU Prinz 1000 - late 60s

Mercedes Benz 300SL Gull Wing

1960 Mercedes Benz 190SL

1953 Mercedes Benz type 220 cabriolet A

1934 Mercedes Benz 13H0. Mercedes-Benz' somewhat unsuccessful experiment with rear engines. The car wasn't terrible, but its handling was initially poor until the bugs of rear end sway could be resolved. The fact that they were poorly regarded cars is one of the reasons so many survived the war years as they were not commandeered for military use.

Mercedes Benz 630 with kompressor

And more...

Mercedes Benz G3 six wheeler. This is one of only two surviving Nazi general staff cars in existence. Three other G3 variants came up for sale in late 2009. Here is a link.
http://www.autoblog.com/2009/10/29/three-mercedes-benz-hitler-cars-on-sale-for-9-million-w-video/

Mercedes Benz G3 side view

A 1930 Maybach Zeppelin. Maybach originally built engines for the Zeppelin company. The Treaty of Versailles banned Germany from building either airships or aircraft so in 1921 Maybach decided to build cars. In an age of big saloon cars, the Maybach Zeppelin with its enormous straight 12 engine was positively huge and you needed a truck license to drive one. Maybach managed to stay in business until the Nazis rearmament program diverted them back into engine production. They ceased manufacturing cars in 1940.

More Maybachs

More Maybachs

Daimler-Chrysler resurrected the Maybach brand in 1997 and in 2009 launched this new Maybach Zeppelin DS8, one of the worlds most expensive modern production cars. If you want more details, check out this link: http://www.gizmag.com/new-maybach-zeppelin/11098/

This vehicle belonged to one of the old German royal families

Bugatti. The king of automobiles

A magnificent Bugatti roadster

A row of Bugatti racers

Jaguar SS

A Rolls Royce, formerly in the possession of some Indian Rajah

Very customized coachwork on this Rolls Royce. In fact, Rolls Royce never built bodies for their Silver Ghost, only the engine and chassis. The buyer was responsible for their own coachwork.

1923 Bentley "Red Label" and a German Hercules motorcycle

A British Morgan Plus-3 roadster.

An extraordinary 'one track car' - the Mauser Einspurauto

Amphicar - the name says it all - an amphibious car. http://www.amphicars.com/acfaq.htm

Project Brutus. This is not so much a real car as a real monster:

• 1907 American La France chassis
• 1925 BMW pre-WWII seaplane engine Type VI, series 8 (used in the Heinkel He-9 and Dornier Wal flying boat) - 12 cylinders 47 litre
• 3.82 litres per cylinder
• 550 PS at 1,530 rpm
• 750 PS at 1,700 rpm
• red line at 2,000 rpm
• 3-gear manual
• Wheel-spin at 140 km/h in 3rd gear
• Average fuel consumption 100 litres per 100 kilometers

Here is a video:


Here is another link to more photos:
Speyer aircraft and military: https://militarymuseum.blogspot.com/2020/05/speyer-technical-museum-germany.html 
Sinsheim aviation and military: https://militarymuseum.blogspot.com/2020/05/sinsheim-technical-museum-germany.html
Motorcycles: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/08/auto-technik-museums-at-sinshiem-speyer.html
Microcars: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/08/sinshiem-micro-car-collection.html
European cars: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/12/speyer-and-sinshiem-auto-collection.html
American cars: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/12/sinshiem-auto-collection-american-cars.html


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Technik Museums of Sinshiem and Speyer

The industrial towns of Sinshiem and Speyer in Germany are home to two extremely impressive auto and technical museums. The collections include numerous cars, motorbikes, scooters, trains, aircraft, ships, submarines, a space shuttle, military hardware and even a chainsaw collection. Housed in vast hangers, with giant aircraft suspended overhead, they are truly amazing. Even though Shelly was initially a little dubious, we spent a couple of hours at both museums and went absolutely mental photographing the collection.

Here are a couple of pics of the scooter collection. I will continue to update this post over the next couple of weeks. Of the two museums Sinshiem was the best in my opinion. The collection was better presented and the auto section was much larger. Both cities are about two hours drive south east of Frankfurt. For more details, check their website: https://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en/

The Scooter Collection

A Heinkel Perle moped

The beautiful Zundapp Bella

Another Bella with a Stieb sidecar

A Lambretta

An NSU Prima

The Heinkel collection at Speyer

In the microcar section - Bellas, Adler Junior, & a Goggomobile

Vespa fenderlight

IWL Berlin and a Vespa 125
 
Adler Junior

Cheating a bit - this is actually from Brussels Auto Museum - A Goggo

A prototype Piaggio 3-wheeler. The MP3 has come a long way



German microcar royalty - Messerschmitt and Heinkel

Fiat 600. NSU began building Fiat cars under license again after the Second World War under the name of NSU-Fiat. After a while their cars began to diverge from both Fiat and NSU, which were then building their famous NSU Prinz.

This is a Hanomag Kommissbrot from the 1920's. Hanomag went on to become one of Germany's major truck manufacturers.

The iconic BMW Isetta. The type was developed by the Italian refridgerator company, ISO. BMW bought the license from ISO and developed the type further.

A line up of 1964/65 Goggomobile Coupes

NSU Prinz Spyder

Nothing says "bubble car" like an Isetta

Except maybe a Heinkel...

A 1957 Goggomobile T-250 sedan

1955 Kleinschnittger F-125


Zundapp Janus

The ultra cool Messerschmitt

The Mercedes-Benz 130H was Mercedes' attempt to develop a rear engined "volks-wagon" during the late 1930s. It was a very experimental design and the problems with the rear engine gave it poor handling. Ferdinand Porsche and Josef Ganz were both consultants on the project.

The east and west German "volkswagens."Trabant and Beetle.

More photos from our visit to Speyer and Sinsheim
Speyer aircraft and military: https://militarymuseum.blogspot.com/2020/05/speyer-technical-museum-germany.html  
Sinsheim aviation and military: https://militarymuseum.blogspot.com/2020/05/sinsheim-technical-museum-germany.html
Motorcycles: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/08/auto-technik-museums-at-sinshiem-speyer.html
Microcars: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/08/sinshiem-micro-car-collection.html
European cars: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/12/speyer-and-sinshiem-auto-collection.html
American cars: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/12/sinshiem-auto-collection-american-cars.html