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Vintage Motorcycle Ads – Zundapp

By Paul Crowe

Vintage motorcycle ad - Zundapp KS100

When you think about vintage motorcycle ads, Zundapp probably doesn’t spring to mind. You’re thinking Honda or Norton or BSA, but Zundapp? Sure, and as these ads show, they were just as much into the idea of mixing motorcycles and pretty girls as anyone else, even though the one ad shown below tries to explain why but most guys don’t need an explanation, the girl catches their eye and if the company is lucky, somehow the ad connects the two in the guy’s mind and he runs down to his dealer with cash in hand.

Zundapp, Zunder Und Apparatebau GMBH, (Fuse and Apparatus Construction, Ltd.) started out making shell fuses for Krupp in World War I. Over the years they made outboard motors, sewing machines and even airplane engines but in 1921 they made their first motorcycle, the Z 22. In WWII, they produced the 4 stroke shaft drive KS750 with a power takeoff to drive a sidecar wheel and it saw action with the German army. They later began building 2 strokes and the KS100 featured in these ads is an example from 1966. Nice ad, nice little bike.

Complete ads below:

Vintage motorcycle ad - Zundapp KS100

Vintage motorcycle ad - Zundapp KS100

Also see: Vintage Norton Ads

 

Posted on July 24, 2008 Filed Under: Motorcycle advertising, Vintage Motorcycles


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Comments

  1. TheVillage][diot says

    July 24, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    Yes, Zundapp, nice motors, simple and reality, i remember my first time(79) on a motorbike with my father(past away)me on the gas tank grabing the direction and accelerating. It was on a Zundapp.
    Good times…
    Greets from Portugal EU

  2. melmackinnon says

    July 24, 2008 at 8:54 pm

    Zundapp’s were fun little bikes. A buddy of mine had a Rickman with a 125 Zundapp motor that worked pretty well but it allways had a few extra neutrals.

  3. Titus says

    July 25, 2008 at 2:45 am

    Zundapp made solid and fast motocross bikes! Moreover they were beautiful and accurate, rare thing in the motocross world of those times. When I was fifteen I tried a 125 cc. and it really sounded…

  4. Beemer Dan says

    July 25, 2008 at 11:17 am

    Those are truly fantastic bikes, I bought a 1966 KS100 street model for my wife several years ago, 1800 original miles and it’s the commemorative Monza edition as well. The only down side to them is finding parts. (they pull great wheelies though!)

  5. petep says

    July 28, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    Cool! I actually have two GS125s in my garage!

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