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Solved NIC#566 - Harold Clisby Special - 350cc Douglas flat-twin
« on: February 27, 2016, 07:02:25 AM »
Who built this car, and what was the engine?
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Re: NIC#566
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2016, 05:20:50 PM »
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Re: NIC#566
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2016, 08:13:00 AM »
Australian hill climb special by Howard Clisby.  Don't know if it had a name of its own - it seems to have very little else.
Wasn't he the man who designed an F1 V6 engine in the 60s...?
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Re: NIC#566
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2016, 08:21:16 AM »
Locked for you. What was the engine?
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Re: NIC#566
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2016, 09:42:59 AM »
Fingew trouble...HAROLD Clisby, not Howard, there was a Howard in  here as I was hunting for the pic (which was in TNF) !....  I'm rambling. Engine was a Douglas
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Re: NIC#566
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2016, 09:56:38 AM »
Quote from: Willie McCrum on April 26, 2016, 09:42:59 AM
Fingew trouble...HAROLD Clisby, not Howard, there was a Howard in  here as I was hunting for the pic (which was in TNF) !....  I'm rambling. Engine was a Douglas

Got there in the end! Clisby built the car in 1952 around a Douglas 350cc flat-twin. It was road-registered!!!

I believe he was one and the same man who designed the Australian F1 engine designed for an Ausper chassis.
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