Vincent HRD Engined Cars

[david bowen]

Jack Brabham started car racing with a Cooper Vincent, in PEI book there is Cooper Mk1v supercharged vincent that he did work on owned by Lex Davison, and The fIying Bedstead owned by Reg Hunt with the ex Les Warton engine 1C/1803

 

[david bowen]

Paul Wilkins phoned to say in his book Page 136 there is a shot off the Dave Sands speed car that has engine 1C/1803 in it and the cars is in Adelaide

 

[davidd]

Lex Davison:

David

 

[david bowen]

And the Trenberth in the lead

 

[ClassicBiker]

At 1:24, there's a very unusual Vincent engined special - double wishbones, fwd, supercharged Rapide engine turned backwards:

What immediately struck me was how did he accomplish front wheel drive? If you think about it when viewed from the right hand side of the bike the rear wheel rotates clock wise to drive the bike forward. We are looking at the right hand side of the engine as evidenced by the push rod tubes and timing chest cover. So either the engine has been re-engineered to run in reverse or an some other method of reversing the drive chain run was created.
Very interesting.
Steven

 

[nkt267]

Could it have been a Picador engine with the drive coupled to a diff?

 

[nkt267]

No.Looked again, definitely a bike engine

 

[Chris Launders]

There looks to be some sort of intermediate shaft between the gearbox and diff in that picture.

 

[rapide058]

The Flying Bedstead is still around ,but needs a restoration

 

[davidd]

I think the "flying Bedstead" got its name when it had the 500cc JAP engine in it. It subsequently raced with a Black Lightning engine in it. When it sold in 2010 it had an HRD twin engine in it. It was also know as the "Reg Hunt Special" and I think it had remained with the family until 2010.

David