Can anyone help?
My first visit to the new VOC website, what a treat!
I have never built a full framed Norvin but several people in the club have called my special twin projects by that name, and I have never been disappointed.
My compliments to all accross the Vincenteering World for a happy and healthy Holiday Season, and a very prosperous New Year.
I am communicating from Canada. It is Sunday night 23rd December, and I just got off the phone to my Brother in Bognor Regis UK whose birthday it was today. We built a Comet together for him in the '60s and he sold it to buy a car. I never forgave him.
Back to my post, if anyone reading this has any knowledge of my enquiry if they could pass that information on to me I would be most greatful.
I'm looking for information on the whereabouts of my original Curtis Vincent Twin special which graces part of page #80 of Mr.Geoff Preece's beautiful Photographic Miscellany. I sold it to a Martin Bland of Sleaford in 1969 just one year before I left England for Western shores.
I also built several replicas of the frame for Stuart Howe of Leicester before I left Blighty, I'm sure everybody has heard of Stuart. While I was away in Canada, he and his Twin Special won lots of races in the '70s.
If you visit my website www.cmrracingproducts.com you will see several pictures of my original special and the one raced by Stuart.
And that's where the link with Norvins comes in. My original Twin Racer was made during '65-'67 using a 'B Twin chopped engine' modified to Lightening Spec by Jim Smith of Pegsden? near Hitchin Hertfordshire. I mated it to a Manx Norton less engine, with the front down tubes cut out to place the Twin crankshaft on the same centre line as the original Manx engine.
It worked well, and the rest is history including several replicas built in British Columbia Canada in the early 1970's using my own tubing layout in a brand new frame, one of which is owned by Mr. Jay Leno.
My question is, can anyone help me find the current owners and whereabouts of the original Curtis Vincent Twin Racer, and the Stuart Howe raced Twins of the early 1970's and later years?
I will be visiting UK in 2008 and would very much like to re-aquaint myself with those bikes and their owners.
Please contact me in Canada:
denis@cmrracingproducts.com
Sincerely,
Denis Curtis
VOC Member in Ontario Canada
My first visit to the new VOC website, what a treat!
I have never built a full framed Norvin but several people in the club have called my special twin projects by that name, and I have never been disappointed.
My compliments to all accross the Vincenteering World for a happy and healthy Holiday Season, and a very prosperous New Year.
I am communicating from Canada. It is Sunday night 23rd December, and I just got off the phone to my Brother in Bognor Regis UK whose birthday it was today. We built a Comet together for him in the '60s and he sold it to buy a car. I never forgave him.
Back to my post, if anyone reading this has any knowledge of my enquiry if they could pass that information on to me I would be most greatful.
I'm looking for information on the whereabouts of my original Curtis Vincent Twin special which graces part of page #80 of Mr.Geoff Preece's beautiful Photographic Miscellany. I sold it to a Martin Bland of Sleaford in 1969 just one year before I left England for Western shores.
I also built several replicas of the frame for Stuart Howe of Leicester before I left Blighty, I'm sure everybody has heard of Stuart. While I was away in Canada, he and his Twin Special won lots of races in the '70s.
If you visit my website www.cmrracingproducts.com you will see several pictures of my original special and the one raced by Stuart.
And that's where the link with Norvins comes in. My original Twin Racer was made during '65-'67 using a 'B Twin chopped engine' modified to Lightening Spec by Jim Smith of Pegsden? near Hitchin Hertfordshire. I mated it to a Manx Norton less engine, with the front down tubes cut out to place the Twin crankshaft on the same centre line as the original Manx engine.
It worked well, and the rest is history including several replicas built in British Columbia Canada in the early 1970's using my own tubing layout in a brand new frame, one of which is owned by Mr. Jay Leno.
My question is, can anyone help me find the current owners and whereabouts of the original Curtis Vincent Twin Racer, and the Stuart Howe raced Twins of the early 1970's and later years?
I will be visiting UK in 2008 and would very much like to re-aquaint myself with those bikes and their owners.
Please contact me in Canada:
denis@cmrracingproducts.com
Sincerely,
Denis Curtis
VOC Member in Ontario Canada