Much love had not allowed the small DKW Munga, says Dietmar Konegen. At that time, as he did his service in the early 1970s in the Bundeswehr, the soldiers tortured her second stroke ends all cycling to the seething anger.
You had there fun. "In the site, the DKW Munga was great", the 52 body master from Hilden remembers, "all he came through." No one must boot up stairs with a car. If it should be but time necessary: the DKW Munga was there. Compact as he was, he behande snaked through the undergrowth, and thanks to area reduction and four drive wheels he turned to casual through deep mud. Snow also held not on him "only it was bad fresh in the winter", Konegen reminds of the DKW Munga, which drove the German armed forces during the cold war of the world powers.
As military seriously comes the DKW Munga, his appearance away from the roads is so nassforsch. Munga called DKW the litter. That was clever, because it could remember each and it sounded much better as a "Multi purpose universal 4WD", for the Munga an acronym. Still staubiger the Bundeswehr was, not surprisingly,: "gl truck 0.25 t" the terrain DKW was internal.
Old cars have tradition in Konegens family. Already his father-in-law, who founded the Coachbuilding company in the 1950s, restored classics. Dietmar Konegen wanted to build Andre, 21, with son out. He confessed to him even as an apprentice in the own operation to restore his first car - and to learn a lot from the journeyman's examination. "90 Percent, it is his work," says the father. And is a bit proud.
The restoration of a car like this DKW Munga has much to do with craftsmanship. But not only: It takes a concept, it needs self-organization and a lot of discipline if the project does not have the years to sand. It was an intense time for Andre Konegen: "Often I late was at night in the workshop." It's not hard to hear that he had not expected to work with this set. His father expected initially less effort to bring the DKW Munga back on the road: "The technique was so simple," he remembers "that you could fix much on the side of the road." But he had made the Bill without the body of his DKW Munga.
Father and son acquired their first DKW Munga before two years indiscriminately over the Internet. Their bid was 300 euro, when the contract came. The car was not worth more, "core scrap that, very bad", Dietmar Konegen Munga comments number one.
The second cost already twice. Slightly better, he was also far from ideal as restoration base. The body was revealed to ailing. Only the third DKW Munga in cahoots, 1,200 euro expensive, opened a small chance, although in some places in the foot space, five sheets were riveted on and-gebrutzelt. He was even, somehow. But only in the area.
Munga trio offered enough parts to start working in the sum of the sad DKW. Andre Konegen began with one of the frame. Nuts and bolts were to guess only, so thick it was breaded with grease, oil and sand. The cleaning of the DKW Munga was followed by the relief: not an accident, no rust, only the bastelte brake lines and unruly mount. And no one had, sawn plus, a big on the front cross member, to install a larger engine. Because many DKW Munga suffered this fate.
Andre Konegen beamed and painted the chassis of the DKW Munga and one not end never-ending number of small parts such as holding plates and springs, before he set it up. He overtook the major and the wheel brake cylinders, made brake lines, which he himself bordelte, cut felt rings and mounted new track rod ends. He rubbed on the sockets fit, for the special double ball bearings that rotate the wheels of DKW Munga, he produced a suitable puller after drawing. Fresh, then also the leaf spring packages were shining. Instead they knarzen to, working now again gritty and silently.
The engineering parts of DKW Munga that wishing Konegen newly prepared little grief: each shock absorber failed with only one of the grobstolligen tyres cost 24 euros to beech, 125 euro. For a steering box that once for the Bundeswehr overtaken, but never mounted been was, he paid 60 Euro. The bearings of the traders seem to be well stocked.
An original engine for the DKW Munga is because still hobbyists clamp cylinder and sometimes heavy diesel engines under the hood. 500 Euro paid the Konegens for a solid copy of cylinder two Takters, the Andre completely decomposed: "the block was good, I could use even the piston and piston rings again."
Meticulously he cleaned the cast iron housings of several layers of paint, only this time not with the gun, but by wire brush and dilution. The concern that sand could hang in any channel, which later causes a capital engine failure was too large. Fundamentally, Andre interventing in the transmission of DKW Munga. He exchanged the synchronous rings and repaired the broken early. Then, after he had an extractor for the double ball bearings manufactured and assembled new synchronous body, he was a the differential by spotting paste.
His biggest hurdle, but was it only now - open body sheet metal. Even though DKW once more or less formed the Munga via the squared Bank, resolved sides demanded fist holes around brackets and vigorously flourishing grooves patience.
Replacement could occasionally cut from the two other DKW Munga bodies Andre Konegen. He made even of many sheets. For the transition of the wheel arches in the sill, he built himself specially tools made of steel, with which he brought a millimeter thick sheet metal in the form. Welded he has set to push and only the spot welding gun with protective gas, where she was at Dodge to the band in use: "In the bottom of the DKW Munga, I have used ultimately completely new sheet."
In between, father Konegen already plagued the conscience. But the son played his ball. After about a year's work, the DKW Munga looked again as unspent as DKW have just delivered him at the defense administration. Over 4,000 kilometres are driven to the two in the first season with her DKW Munga. The little has mastered all tasks while Dietmar Konegen remember the cold winter, at that time in the cold war. Andre, however, is completely unbiased the military relic - the Bundeswehr has never reported it. Today, the times are so different.
