NORTON CLUBMAN FOUR

摘要

If the devil lives in the details, this Yamaha-powered Norton "Clubman" special built by Northern California's Paul Adams must be totally possessed. Exquisitely crafted with various leftover parts from 1950s and '60s Nortons that Adams had restored over the years-plus a 1985 Yamaha FJ600 engine found at a motorcycle wrecker-it quite literally represents what the storied English firm might have built if it had not fallen on hard times 60 years ago. As evidenced in the 1962 book Built for Speed by John Griffith, during the 1950s Norton's racing department had absolutely designed a 500CC liquid-cooled transverse-four DOHC engine to power its Grand Prix bikes, a clear response to Gilera and MV Agusta competition.