Bonhams at Stafford

Dogsbody

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Probably need both to do it seriously. Anyone brave enough?
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Bonhams Cars : c.1974 NVT 'Cosworth' Experimental Prototype Frame no. none Engine no. none

The urgent need to replace its ageing Commando twin with something more modern for both road and track prompted NVT to commission a new engine design from Cosworth Engineering, applicable to both a production roadster and a race-bike. First shown in 1975, the Challenge water-cooled unitary...
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Bonhams Cars : A c.1974 NVT 'Cosworth' Prototype Engine

The experimental engine offered here appears to be a test-bed for Cosworth's DOHC four-valves-per-cylinder technology applied to a water-cooled twin-cylinder engine with separate gearbox; as such, it might have been conceived as an update for the Commando engine that would have been cheaper than...
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Well a bit more Provence than the other recent posting of the same bike (?), but still looks like a home brew bike. How does this link in with the Challenge Cosworth effort, an early version that they tested for the Green light of further development by Cosworth ?
 
That makes it more interesting. Presumably the engine was just hooked up to a dyno for testing ?

However, buying and getting it running? that would be the real Norton Challenge :eek: :eek:
 
Another item for a JPN owner Or Peter Williams fan.
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Bonhams Cars : A set of ex-Peter Williams John Player Norton racing leathers ((3))

made by Bates of California, race-worn and distressed, together with a Bell helmet and John Player Norton T-shirt both signed by Williams, and two magazine cover photographs of Williams believed to be wearing the same leathers, which also display stitching marks thought to have been for the...
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Dogsbody said:
Another item for a JPN owner Or Peter Williams fan.
www.bonhams.com

Bonhams Cars : A set of ex-Peter Williams John Player Norton racing leathers ((3))

made by Bates of California, race-worn and distressed, together with a Bell helmet and John Player Norton T-shirt both signed by Williams, and two magazine cover photographs of Williams believed to be wearing the same leathers, which also display stitching marks thought to have been for the...
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Quite sad really.

I wonder if they are the leathers he wore in his last race?
 
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