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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

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

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

Your welcome

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

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...