Clan Clover - 1987

[lebowski]

Here's my Clan Clover. It's powered by a mid mounted 1.5 alfasud boxer.





Cheers

[arthurbrown]

Lovely!
Tell us more!!

And I spy with my retro eye... avenger AND sunbeam. More on those too you lucky barsteward.

[lebowski]

Ok. The Clover has Alfasud Sprint (105bhp) engine and box, McPherson struts at the rear and double wishbone suspension at the front. Discs all round. Non standard revolution alloys though I have the original compomotives which were fitted when I bought it (along with the original tyres!)

Factory weight figure was 610kg's, so decent performance.

The Avenger is also mine. It's currently fitted with a fairly standard 1500, though my Dad and I have been building a turbo 1600 for it, along with esprit throttle bodies and megasquirt management.

The 'Irish' Clan belongs to my Dad and is fitted with a standard Imp sport engine.

The Sunbeam Ti is also my Dads. It's basically standard but needs restoring really as he's had it from new! He also has 4 imps in various states.

Cheers

[penski]

Awesome stuff

*n

[michiel]

I've just been reading about the whole Clan thing in a Dutch Lotus Club mag, and was wondering what the Clover looked like... and there she is! Excellent timing, and a cool car!

[Robinxr4i]

very rare i guess never seen one like it before, revolutions look quality on it!

[qwerty]

Thats awesome! Is it a kit car or something (excuse my ignorance)

[lebowski]

Hi. It's not a kit, this one was factory built. I think Clan made 20 factory built Clovers and 6 kits before they shut down. This one is chassis no.6.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Where did they make those clans? Was it in NE england somewhere?

[lebowski]

It was in Northern Ireland somewhere. I forget where exactly.

[daverapid]

What a fasntastic and unusual selection of cars you have there! I wouldn't know which one to ogle first if I were faced with that lot!

[michiel]

Built in Newtonards, according to my information.

[lebowski]

Yep, that's the place!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I must say, I had it in my head that the original imp-powered jobs were built in Ireland but the 'reborn' alfa engined ones were made in the NE england, washington maybe. However, this could very well be TOSH.

[lebowski]

I think the imp engined ones were made in Washington, whereas the Clover was made in Newtonards.