In Part I of this four-part NSU Rare Rides series, we covered the beginning of the NSU brand and its initial product offerings — which included knitting machines. The company moved into bikes and motorcycles, as well as a three-wheeler considered a midpoint between motorcycle and car. The engineers were certainly busy, but all was […]
Tag: 1965
Robert Plant’s 1965 Aston Martin DB5 is for sale
It was made famous by James Bond in the 1964 film “Goldfinger,” and this particular version was given its lived-in quality by the frontman of one of rock-and-roll’s biggest bands. Now you, too, can own the Aston Martin DB5 likely driven to Bron-Yr-Aur and across the land of the ice and snow by none other […]
Pagoda Style Meets Corvette Power in Mysterious 1965 Mercedes-Benz 230SL
– The 1960s were arguably the high point of Mercedes-Benz design. While some prefer the more ornate automobiles of the 1930s and others admire the charm of the three-pointed star’s postwar machines, the 1960s brought us the Heckflosse (launched in 1959; the name means “fintail”); the stately W108, which deleted the Heckflosse’s eponymous tailfins; the […]
