Melkus RS 1000 is a sports car produced by Melkus. It is powered by a tuned, mid-mounted 3-cylinder 2-stroke 992 cm 3 engine, similar to the one in the Wartburg 353, and features gull-wing doors. 101 cars were made between 1969 and 1979 in the Dresden factory.

2021年9月18日 · The Melkus RS 1000 is a fiberglass-bodied sports car made in Dresden in East Germany for 10 years from 1969 till 1979. They have steel ladder chassis and three-cylinder, two-stroke, one-liter engines producing approximately 68 hp at 4,500 rpm. Just 101 of them were made and roughly 80 are thought to have survived.

The racing cars competed in Formula 3, Formula Junior and Formula Ford. The 2009 to 2012 models used engines from Toyota and Volkswagen. The only road car the company produced from 1959 to 1986 was the Melkus RS 1000. It was a sleek sports car powered by a tuned mid-mounted Wartburg 3-cylinder 2-stroke engine.

2016年6月10日 · But maybe a few know that the original Melkus existed from 1959 to 1986 and produced only one road car – the RS 1000, featured in our Soviet Bloc cars series this week. Where and when was it...

2023年10月12日 · Behind the Iron Curtain, racer Heinz Melkus built his namesake Melkus RS 1000 in what was then East Germany. The RS 1000 is considered his company’s most successful creation, although only 101 were built. The mid-engined, rear-wheel-drive sports car uses a 1119cc three-cylinder power plant, with three carburetors.

2021年9月18日 · Heinz was, by all accounts, a handy racing driver and produced a series of competition cars, but only one road car: the RS 1000. Consisting of a fiberglass body on top of a ladder-frame...

Melkus RS 1000 - this is the only sports car released in the countries of the Communist camp. Initially the name В«MelkusВ» has received the driving school, founded in 1955 in Dresden professional road racer Hayncom Melkusom, cars with the same name appeared about 15 years.

Melkus RS1000 is an automobile that has a 2 door coupé type body with a mid positioned engine that delivers power to the rear wheels. It's powered courtesy of a naturally aspirated engine of 1 litre capacity. This powerplant features two stroke valve gear, 3 cylinder layout,.

Melkus RS 1000 was a sports car from Melkus. It was a sleek sports car powered by a tuned mid-mounted Wartburg 3-cylinder 2-stroke engine from the Wartburg 353. Most of the cars used the 992 cc version giving a top speed of 165 km/h, but some of the later cars had the 1200 cc version.

great that sportscars tested the new MElkus RS 2000 together with the old RS 1000 so we recived a pretty rare laptime for a oldtimer :)