Solved - NEH 1578: Thurner RS - 1971

[Carnut]

What's this, by whom, from when - for 1 point?

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[Carnut]

Experts'll know for sure..

[Delorean]

Turner RS?

[Carnut]

Turner RS?

Yes, it's a Thurner-NSU RS.
Here are some more pics of these attractive cars made by insurance agent Rudolf Thurner:

[Wendax]

The car surely looks a lot like a Thurner RS, except for the wheels and the headlights, but the owner claims it to be something different: NSU Ver-Oli from 1973, built by Hermann Handstanger from Austria, based on NSU TT. I don't know whether it really is an "Eigenbau" or just a modified Thurner RS.

[Carnut]

The car surely looks a lot like a Thurner RS, except for the wheels and the headlights, but the owner claims it to be something different: NSU Ver-Oli from 1973, built by Hermann Handstanger from Austria, based on NSU TT. I don't know whether it really is an "Eigenbau" or just a modified Thurner RS.

Yes, when I posted this puzzle it was on the basis that it was an Eigenbau by Hermann Handstanger.  But since it had such a strong resemblance to the Thurner I compared the two and decided it was in fact a Thurner body; I think Herr Handstanger is being just a bit liberal with the truth; I'm sure he put the thing together as a kit car perhaps making a few of his own changes but this really isn't a genuine 'Eigenbau' which would normally have a body wholly created by the builder, not just a slight modification (the headlights!) of someone else's!

Fortunately the NSU-Thurner RS didn't seem to have been puzzled before so I just changed the puzzle to be an NSU-Thurner (or Thurner-NSU!)

[Otto Puzzell]

Fortunately the NSU-Thurner RS didn't seem to have been puzzled before so I just changed the puzzle to be an NSU-Thurner (or Thurner-NSU!)

Not the whole car, anyway. 

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=3992.0

[Wendax]

I think Herr Handstanger is being just a bit liberal with the truth; I'm sure he put the thing together as a kit car perhaps making a few of his own changes but this really isn't a genuine 'Eigenbau' which would normally have a body wholly created by the builder, not just a slight modification (the headlights!) of someone else's!

I think so, too. His motorsport club is planning a web article about his car. Let's see what story they will tell.

Fortunately the NSU-Thurner RS didn't seem to have been puzzled before so I just changed the puzzle to be an NSU-Thurner (or Thurner-NSU!)

It' just Thurner RS without "NSU-" or "-NSU".

[grobmotorix]

I came across one fine example recently:

[dzima1985]

Two nice images:

[grobmotorix]

A tiny 1973 ad, scanned with 600dpi...:

[Wendax]

And a brochure with its back on the front cover: