The things you hear in conversation. I was on a mid week rally last week and while chatting with a fellow at the museum he says out of the blue , I bought an old Douglas motorcycle engine at a farm auction once,it has about a 9 inch flywheel clutch on it. I says is it for sale yes ,I think so he says , Is it side valve or OHV , Oh it is OHV he says .... see you should have come on the rally BOB
Anyway he says I only live a few hundred meters away hang about for a while and Ill take you to it. Well I was a bit excited by this time, and by the time the lunch BBQ was finished I really ready to go . We jumps in his truck and sure enough we pull up into this yard full tractors stationary engines and the such... he walks me over to it and here it is a complete engine with flywheel clutch, mag, carb laying in the dirt
I looks down at the motor and scrapes off the mud, (it has been in a flood twice in the past two years) only to find that it was the first Douglas stationary engine I had ever seen .. Was I disappointed , yes well just a bit, so if there is any one in OZ that wants a engine for spares let me know cheers
Peter
