Porsche based kit car.Denzel ?????

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Back in the distant past ie early 1970,s I went to what was called a standard car trial (do they still run them now?) A guy came up to me and asked what was my weight. When I told him, it was the same as his,he then asked me if I would like to be the passenger in his car for the duration of the trial. The car turned out to be a Porsche based lightweight special. It was called a Denzel, made in Austria if my memory is still correct. I have never been able to find any reference to a Porsche based kit car by the name of Denzal (if my spelling is correct)in any Porsche books. The outcome of the days car trial was that we went over a raised drain cover in some long grass and the sump was ripped off. I towed the car back to his home. I think it was in Rochdale or some other northern town. The guy had a large factory unit and had several very nice classic cars stored in his garage.......any info on the Denzel car would be interesting.....Thanks

[Siggy]

Denzel
German Denzel (Wien) manufactured their special body for Volkswagen chassis in about '53-'57.
They had three models;
Denzel Sport with 1300cc 54PS engine
Denzel Sport Super with 1300cc 65PS engine
Denzel Sport International with 1500cc 80PS engine

http://gutefahrt.com/special.html

http://www.tamsoldracecarsite.net/Denzel.html

Google denzel, Porsche

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Hi Dave
Thanks for the information and for the links.
I guess it was another special builder who finally went the way of most of them and bit the dust due to only a few sales and un-economically low production runs.
Regards
Don

[Siggy]

Your welcome

There must have been hundreds of special builders in the 50's and only a few will have survived

[rafiki]

See this month's Porsche World and 911.

Interesting article...Denzels and other kit cars, all based on VW engines and chassis. Precursors of Porsche...