Solved NIC#785 - 1949 Larkens-DKW F3

[nicanary]

What is this car, and what powered it?

[nicanary]

Experts?

[250gto]

Larkens 500cc F3. Built in the Bierum, Nertherlands by two(?) brothers. Powered by DKW engines, the first being aircooled and then replaced by a second watercooled 2-stroke one.

[richard cuyler]

Anyone else have experience of DKW 3-cylinder engines? They may have been smoky old things, but they were powerful for their size and very, very smooth. I loved 'em. Well, except when you were driving behind one....

[nicanary]

Larkens 500cc F3. Built in the Bierum, Nertherlands by two(?) brothers. Powered by DKW engines, the first being aircooled and then replaced by a second watercooled 2-stroke one.

Yes indeed - fully solved. Built in 1949 by the Larkens brothers  and recently refound and being restored.

[D-type]

Anyone else have experience of DKW 3-cylinder engines? They may have been smoky old things, but they were powerful for their size and very, very smooth. I loved 'em. Well, except when you were driving behind one....

They had an inherent fault in the cooling system.  Tuned ones always suffered with overheating of the No 2 cylinder.  Hence DKW engined cars were only successful in short club races and hillclimbs.

[richard cuyler]

Ah! Live and learn, eh? 'specially on Autopuzzles.

[gte4289]

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