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witko999 said:
The car above is possibly the first (or an early one) one produced, which had wolfrace sonic wheels like that one. Afterwards they had a compomotive spoked type wheel.
I owned a Clover for a few years (chassis number 7 - apparently it's in Germany now), using it as my everyday car. They had great potential, but as standard the suspension geometry is not great at the front, although with some time and/or money this can be fixed. The Alfasud gearboxes are renowed for syncro wear, and indeed mine crunched on 2nd gear unless you nursed it in. The gearchange was also not helped by being actuated by a long rod running under the engine and gearbox which flexed and also reduced ground clearance. The steering racks were also too slow for a performance car being 3.7 turns lock to lock, although this isn't a major problem.
Compared to a Crusader, or an 'Irish' Clan, which I have also owned, the Clover is much more difficult to drive, as there's much less feel through the steering (although mine had worn out shocks aswell), and the gearbox is more difficult, but the straight line performance is much greater and they can actually corner quickly, you just have to be braver! They also sound great.
If you do a google image search, mine was the red one D680 YHK. Most of the photo's were taken by me.
anybody remembers for how much its was sold?I owned a Clover for a few years (chassis number 7 - apparently it's in Germany now), using it as my everyday car. They had great potential, but as standard the suspension geometry is not great at the front, although with some time and/or money this can be fixed. The Alfasud gearboxes are renowed for syncro wear, and indeed mine crunched on 2nd gear unless you nursed it in. The gearchange was also not helped by being actuated by a long rod running under the engine and gearbox which flexed and also reduced ground clearance. The steering racks were also too slow for a performance car being 3.7 turns lock to lock, although this isn't a major problem.
Compared to a Crusader, or an 'Irish' Clan, which I have also owned, the Clover is much more difficult to drive, as there's much less feel through the steering (although mine had worn out shocks aswell), and the gearbox is more difficult, but the straight line performance is much greater and they can actually corner quickly, you just have to be braver! They also sound great.
If you do a google image search, mine was the red one D680 YHK. Most of the photo's were taken by me.
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