Nova The V-4 Harley you never saw! (In the Flesh)

[BaZa®]

Sure this has been on here before or I have read it somewhere else.

Never the less an interesting story for anyone who did not know.

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Harley Davidson Nova

[kiwidave]

posted it about six months ago, i think it was ....;)

[BaZa®]

Originally Posted by BaZa ®

Sure this has been on here before or I have read it somewhere else.

Never the less an interesting story for anyone who did not know.

Click onto photo.

Harley Davidson Nova

Originally Posted by kiwidave

posted it about six months ago, i think it was ....;)

Thought I'd seen it before...LOL


But we always have newbies.....

I was at the factory in february and saw 2 of those in the archives (private museum). It was meant to replace the evo but wasn't any cheaper to build so they never bothered. I also saw the nova v6 motor.
The nearest dealer to Juneau avenue is called the House of Harley Davidson and the head honcho there, Gene Elkman I think his name was, actually worked on the nova project.
When the museum is built you'll all be able to see those bikes (and some really exciting stuff eg the prototype sportster, the denim fat boy etc).

[the_french_owl]

From the article:

Harley solicited detailed design proposals from three companies, then cut the field to two-Ricardo in England and Porsche R&D in Weissach, West Germany

...Actually, Ricardo worked on the Evo project, that's how this club magazine, The Harleyquin" was the 1st in the world to unveil, in photographs obtained in some Heathrow warehouse, what Paul Parslow speculated should be called a Blockhead!!!

Plenty of probable reasons listed in the article for the Nova demise, but maybe, just maybe, somebody in AMF/H-D realised it looked like pure unaldurated sh*te, quite like their thoughts process these days...

Patrick

[the_french_owl]

black dog

When the museum is built you'll all be able to see those bikes (and some really exciting stuff eg the prototype sportster, the denim fat boy etc).

You mean that other monstrosity they're building in Milwaukee, peer into the glorious past and go forth and buy the erzatz present type thingy??? The one that will look even more like a Mc Donald Emporium than any other dealership I know of???



http://http://www.harley-davidson.co...p?locale=en_US

Patrick

[hippy]

Patrick
you have a way with words most discriptive and oh so true i'll have a burger and fries, to go

actually it's truer than you think

at the new showroom of the harley dealer in Bridgwater you can indeed buy a burger and fries in their cafe integrated into the showroom