High up on the list is the MZ ES250 Doubleport. It's hard to know how many of these were built. Estimates vary from 800 to 8000.A few years ago I found the remains of one on eBay.de and won it for what I thought was a reasonable price ( and NO im not telling you how much I paid)It was a punt in the dark because there was only one photo and it showed a lot of parts missing.
OK a lot of bits were missing but it was a Doppelport.. the holy grail of MZers!
Anyway, seeing that I didnt have a car licence at the time, I managed to convince my better half to drive a transit to Germany with me, to pick up the doppelport, a IWL Pitty and an MZ ES250/0 ( which I bought, on eBay for 100 euro the day before we left) And it wasnt as bad as it looked! It had the rear wheel and seats.
However the front wheel and front mudguard were wrong and the engine was seized solid.
The right front wheel came from eBay at the bargain price of 10 euro, the mudguard was a hell of a lot more and when it arrived it was probably not original. Over the last few years a few more parts have been bought and its now close to being worth starting the restoration. Will it be worth it? Well for once the answer is probably yes. the last restore one to sell on ebay.de went for in excess of 11,000 euro. But then again it did look like this
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