Topic: Solved NIC#755 - Norman Wilson Special (Holden powered)

[nicanary]

What is this car? (The front one!)

[nicanary]

Experts?

[tobytwirl]

Are we in Australia?

[nicanary]

Are we in Australia?

Yes, we are.

[tobytwirl]

At first  I thought 3 SUs and started thinking Jaguar, but thus appears to be a small car, and I don't think they are SUs. Is that a DKW or Saab engine?

[nicanary]

At first  I thought 3 SUs and started thinking Jaguar, but thus appears to be a small car, and I don't think they are SUs. Is that a DKW or Saab engine?

You are observant, but the engine is not as small as it looks. Not a Jaguar, though.

[tobytwirl]

Holden?

[nicanary]

Holden?

Yes!

[tobytwirl]

Is this one on the net somewhere? It has eluded me so far.

[nicanary]

Is this one on the net somewhere? It has eluded me so far.

Yes it is. It was the subject of an item on a well-known website - your job is to find it!

[tobytwirl]

It is the Norman Wilson Special in the foreground at Templestowe Hillclimb in Melbourne around 1956. Pat Hawthorne’s Lycoming Spl behind. Still can't understand those carburetors but apparently they are 3 single throat webers fitted to the holden engine, which is canted over to 30 degrees. By all accounts it was a clever well engineered car which did not survive - but a replica is being built.

[nicanary]

You found it! That's exactly what it is, and that's why the engine looks small in the photo.

Well solved, and another point to you.