At the heart of The White is a documented factory racing 1967 Velocette Venom Thruxton engine, an ultra-rare 'squish head', which has been massaged internally and polished externally. 

 

A Velocette Venom still holds the record for a 500cc 'single' engine averaging 100 miles per hour for 24 hours in an endurance race session, which it set in 1961.

Legendarily Velocette racer, Arthur Lavington, who owned and raced The White's 1967 VMT 816RC engine.

Legendarily Velocette racer, Arthur Lavington, who owned and raced The White's 1967 VMT 816RC engine.

 

The power unit is a potent thing with pur sang lineage, around which a dynamic, space-race chassis was fabricated by hand, to exacting tolerances of beauty.