Ariel square four Lister bike

[Stuart]

I was on a charity toyrun today & a guy told me his friend had once put an old Lister engine from a dumper truck into an Ariel Square Four chassis. I have absolutely no more details on it but thought I'd mention it for the records.
So it might be tucked away in a shed somewhere but more evidence that yet someone else had tried to convert a bike back in the day.

[XLerate]

Without doubt Ariel Square Fours are far more common in Great Britain, but I must say, in the U.S.A. that's downright sacrilege, nearly a hanging offense, TO THE GALLOWS WITH HIM!

Surely one of my long time favorites in that a neighbor owned one when I was growing up, at the impressionable early teenage years. That very bike is the prime mover and main cause of a lifelong fascination with motorcycles ever since! I have a deep fondness for most British bikes, love all the old BSA's and many of the Triumphs etc. but Ariel will always be at the top in my respects. I know that one went like stink and wasn't stock, had quite a reputation in the whole countryside.

I wonder if you've still got it Tony A, wherever you are? I'm sure he doesn't remember me so fondly, thanks to my Bug go-kart with an open exhaust 8.2 Power Products 2 stroke that I tore up and down our road with, day after day, hour after hour ha! My poor neighbors...