1981 prototype 4 cylinder, air scoops on "gas" tank, radiator under seat, water cooled. Wonder where this bike would be now??

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From Spring 2007 H-D Enthusiast magazine.

 

Looks like a 4 cylinder YamaHonda! Sure glad that never happened.

 

That isn't a Harley. It is a Honda with a Harley paint job.

 

Yuck.[:'(]

Glad that one was aborted!

Cheers!
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883 Sportster


Nova


They DID make the Nova..just without the 4 cylinder, and those ugly "body-kit" looking things.

 

I just recieved that magzine today. Sure looks strange with out a front down tube.
I gald Harley didn't go that direction.

Jim

 

I was really into performance motorcycles back in those days. I remember this project very well. I had a killer Kawasaki LTD 1000 with all of the hop ups of those days.
Those were hard times for HD, and I'm sure they felt to survive, they needed tocompetewitha performance machine of their own.
They found their ultimate survival by just improving what they were doing all along.

 

scrap yard i hope, looks like harley was biting off of harley with that prototype. glad they burried it.

 

were is the down tubes of the frame in front ?

 

If you read the history on it Harley actually came out with a in line 4 Nova prototype before the Metrics. It never went beyound a mock up.