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Fish
02-15-2005, 11:20 PM
Ok, here are some more pics courtesy of Parker. He has boxes of this stuff- Amazing pics and some movies. No particular order, but I did have to take out the pics of half of the women in Florida with their tops off. :) Hope you guys enjoy these....

Scream And Fly
02-15-2005, 11:21 PM
This is what this site is all about - post away!

Greg

Fish
02-15-2005, 11:21 PM
Hammer down pic 2

Fish
02-15-2005, 11:24 PM
Hammer down pic 3

Fish
02-15-2005, 11:26 PM
Hammer down pic 4

Fish
02-15-2005, 11:37 PM
Hammer down pic 5

Anyone recognize this Mercury Ad? Anyone know who the girl in the picture is?

Fish
02-15-2005, 11:39 PM
Hammer down pic 6

PARKER RABE
02-15-2005, 11:39 PM
Its My Mom ! For Real ! :) HAMMER DOWN PIC 5

Fish
02-15-2005, 11:40 PM
Its My Mom ! For Real ! :) HAMMER DOWN PIC 5
Park, I figured you would know the answer...

Fish
02-15-2005, 11:41 PM
Hammer down pic 7

Fish
02-15-2005, 11:44 PM
Hammer down pic 8

Fish
02-15-2005, 11:55 PM
Hammer down pic 9

Fish
02-15-2005, 11:58 PM
Hammer down pic 10

Fish
02-16-2005, 12:00 AM
Hammer down pic 11

Fish
02-16-2005, 12:01 AM
Hammer down pic 12

Fish
02-16-2005, 12:10 AM
Hammer down pic 13

Fish
02-16-2005, 12:11 AM
Hammer down pic 14

Fish
02-16-2005, 12:12 AM
Hammer down pic 15

Fish
02-16-2005, 12:24 AM
Hammer down pic 16

Fish
02-16-2005, 12:27 AM
Hammer down pic 17

Fish
02-16-2005, 01:25 AM
Hammer down pic 18

Fish
02-16-2005, 01:26 AM
Hammer down pic 19

Fish
02-16-2005, 01:26 AM
Hammer down pic 20

81hydrostream
02-16-2005, 08:08 AM
Awesome photos, keep them coming. :)

Fish
02-16-2005, 08:09 AM
Hammer down pic 21

BTW... the topless chick is a manequin

Fish
02-16-2005, 08:09 AM
Hammer down pic 22
look closely at the arrow... I can only assume that must have been parker under the cowl of the 300. :D

Fish
02-16-2005, 08:09 AM
Hammer down pic 23

Fish
02-16-2005, 08:09 AM
Hammer down pic 24

Fish
02-16-2005, 08:09 AM
Hammer down pic 25

Fish
02-16-2005, 08:31 AM
Hammer down pic 26

Fish
02-16-2005, 08:31 AM
Hammer down pic 27

Fish
02-16-2005, 08:31 AM
Hammer down pic 28

Fish
02-16-2005, 08:31 AM
Hammer down pic 29

Fish
02-16-2005, 08:32 AM
Hammer down pic 30

JustMercMe
02-16-2005, 08:45 AM
Keep em coming!

Fish
02-16-2005, 08:52 AM
Hammer down pic 31

Fish
02-16-2005, 08:58 AM
Hammer down pic 32

Fish
02-16-2005, 08:59 AM
Hammer down pic 33

closeup of pic 32...

Fish
02-16-2005, 11:06 AM
More to come, check back later...

fish

PARKER RABE
02-16-2005, 12:43 PM
I Still Have The 23 Ron Jones , But No Motors!


Great Job Fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flashypaint
02-16-2005, 05:10 PM
Thanks for sharing thats some cool stuff...

PARKER RABE
02-16-2005, 05:11 PM
alot more to come ! thanks

Cp
02-16-2005, 06:48 PM
Thanks for sharing your family photos, Parker!!!! They're mighty fine!

Cp

Oh yeah - Is that you tunin' on the port motor in the blow-up doll picture (#21)???

TNT
02-16-2005, 06:55 PM
hey park nice pic of ur mom thought she looked familar :eek:

MODVP22
02-16-2005, 07:10 PM
hey Parker, is that your boat in pic #30?

Lookin good guys, keep em coming

FasterthanU
02-16-2005, 07:11 PM
The pics were great! Hey Parkey lest see if we can squeeze you under your 2.5 cowling! LOL Pakers MOM's HOT! :eek: Just playin' :p :D

PARKER RABE
02-16-2005, 07:17 PM
SHE IS !!!!!!!! :eek:

PARKER RABE
02-16-2005, 07:19 PM
CP - HA HA YEP :eek:

PARKER RABE
02-16-2005, 07:21 PM
Tommy Thats My Old Streaker ! Cant Touch This ......

rmh77
02-16-2005, 08:09 PM
Those are some cool pics parker! I wish i would have gotten to grow up around all that boating.

PARKER RABE
02-16-2005, 08:14 PM
It Was Fun Brother

Fish
02-17-2005, 09:34 AM
Hammer down pic 34...

A few hustler pics (SFW) lol

Fish
02-17-2005, 09:35 AM
Hammer down pic 35...

Fish
02-17-2005, 09:36 AM
Hammer down pic 37...

blkmtrfan
02-17-2005, 09:42 AM
WOW Awesome stuff Parker, What a way to grow up :cool:

I love these pics :D

Fish
02-17-2005, 09:43 AM
Hammer down pic 38...

more cool vintage stuff

Fish
02-17-2005, 09:44 AM
Hammer down pic 39...

Fish
02-17-2005, 09:45 AM
Hammer down pic 40...

Fish
02-17-2005, 09:46 AM
gotta get back to work, more pics coming soon...

Cp
02-17-2005, 09:47 AM
.....but a quick word or two about who/what would make this EVEN BETTER!!!

Thanks again for the pix, Parker and thanks for the manning the scanner, Fish!!

Cp

2us70
02-17-2005, 10:19 AM
I particularly enjoyed seeing some of the shots from Lake Maggiore. Back in the day we would all love to run there because it was such a fast course. Many 5 Mile records were set there. Those shots of the FS class boats show just how goofy that class was. Two guys in the boat,limited engine height dragging that huge gearcase and a high weight limit made them slower but often more unpredictable than the FJ boats.

PARKER RABE
02-17-2005, 12:25 PM
ALL THE CREDIT GOES TO FISH !!!!! HES THE ONE SPENDING HOURS AT THE SCANNER :eek: :eek:
WE GOT ABOUT 5000 PICS TO GO :eek: :eek: THANKS GUYS

PARKER RABE
02-17-2005, 12:26 PM
Us70 , There Trying To Get Another Race Going At Lake Maggorie For The Tunnelboat Guys . Lake Is Being Cleaned Right Now .

2us70
02-17-2005, 04:49 PM
Is the lake still as shallow as ever? I remember guys going on their heads in that lake and walking back to shore. The course markers were not bouys but stakes driven into the mud bottom. I got too close in turn 1 in 1970 and hit an abandoned marker stake and tore up my best prop a month before Nationals. Olegator took it and when he gave it back a couple of weeks later it was almost 1 mph better than before. I call that a lucky hit since that's the prop I won Nationals with that year.

PARKER RABE
02-17-2005, 05:35 PM
Its Still Shallow , They Have Had It Closed For Years , Because Of A Bald Eagle Nest??? In The Nature Trail , On The Back Side Of The Lake , The Last Time We Tested The Champ Boats There We Got Run Off Buy All Sorts Of People 5 Years Ago , Saying It Was To Loud , And There Was A 5mph Speed Limit On The Lake ! I Have All The Mid To Early 80s Races On Vhs , Of The 7 Litre Running And Blown K Boats ..... I Think Billy Joule , (joule Yacht Transport) #38 Champ Boat , Was Working With The City On It , He Wants To Have A Champ Boat Race There , For Next Year !

seeroy
02-17-2005, 07:32 PM
Parker & Fish - I've been gone for a few days. Words alone could not express my thanks for these pics in Vol 1-3. Incredible stuff!!!!!:) :) -Steve Sirois

Fish
02-17-2005, 08:28 PM
glad you like it Steve. I also would like to thank you for your posts in the "life at lake X thread". I do not have a lot to contribute to the thread, but have thoroughly enjoyed reading and learning from it.

fish

Capt.Insane-o
02-17-2005, 08:39 PM
Absolutely amazing.....................

Fish
02-17-2005, 09:58 PM
Hammer down pic 41...

Fish
02-17-2005, 09:59 PM
Hammer down pic 42...

Fish
02-17-2005, 10:01 PM
Hammer down pic 43...

Fish
02-17-2005, 10:03 PM
Hammer down pic 44...

Fish
02-17-2005, 10:05 PM
Hammer down pic 45...

Fish
02-17-2005, 10:07 PM
Hammer down pic 46...

2us70
02-17-2005, 11:25 PM
Just keep on scannin!

PARKER RABE
02-18-2005, 11:48 AM
Pic 41 Is Reggie Fountains Boat At Rabco , Reggie Used To Come To Town To, Race And Stay With Us About Twice A Year ! Check Out Our Showroom In The Backround , Streakers , Hustlers And Twisters Alaways On Display , + Some 2.4s On The Engine Stands

Capt.Insane-o
02-18-2005, 07:52 PM
any more pics of your mom? ;)

PARKER RABE
02-18-2005, 08:11 PM
Ha Ha Plenty , U Should See Her Today 54 And Still Hits The Gym , Looks 30 ....

TNT
02-18-2005, 08:12 PM
parker ur sick :eek: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PARKER RABE
02-18-2005, 08:18 PM
Everytime We Have A Party , All My Buddies Want To Date Her ! I Alaways End Up Throwing Someone Out ! :d

Capt.Insane-o
02-19-2005, 09:01 PM
This should be stickied on the gen disc. page!

mr fun
02-19-2005, 09:03 PM
that shot # 44, look at the miami boat show post from Greg today, the "pirate ship" a mercury sponsored "midnight express" the same use of wood and colors, i had no idea the extent your dad was into all of this stuff. i want to learn more, great job Fish, Parker, Randy! (and mom) and Jason. fun out :cool:

JohnBoy
02-20-2005, 07:03 AM
Parker, Got any pictures of the twister pleasure boat your family would take out that had 3-4 300's on it. We used to see your family out on it every weekend back in the early 80's. Great post thanks to all.

PARKER RABE
02-20-2005, 11:25 AM
Yes Got Plenty , Ill Try To Have Them Up This Week .

NICE PAIR
02-20-2005, 01:31 PM
Great pics guys Thanks!

largecar91
02-20-2005, 05:25 PM
GREAT PHOTOS. DON'T STOP!!(THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID)!! :eek:

Fish
02-20-2005, 10:26 PM
Hammer down pic 47...

Fish
02-20-2005, 10:26 PM
Hammer down pic 48...

Fish
02-20-2005, 10:27 PM
Hammer down pic 49...

Fish
02-20-2005, 10:27 PM
Hammer down pic 50...

Fish
02-20-2005, 10:27 PM
Hammer down pic 51...

Fish
02-20-2005, 10:28 PM
Hammer down pic 52...

Fish
02-20-2005, 10:28 PM
Hammer down pic 53...

Fish
02-20-2005, 10:28 PM
Hammer down pic 54...

Fish
02-20-2005, 10:28 PM
Hammer down pic 55...

Fish
02-20-2005, 10:29 PM
Hammer down pic 56...

stylishskier
02-21-2005, 12:00 AM
YOU KILLED S&F!!!!
but seriously, great pix and what happened to the recent ones?

Scream And Fly
02-21-2005, 12:01 AM
I just noticed that - looking into it now. Wemight have an attachment table problem. Hold off on the photo uploads until we fix it :)

Greg

Fish
02-22-2005, 10:53 PM
Hammer down pic 57...

Fish
02-22-2005, 11:08 PM
Hammer down pic 58...

Fish
02-22-2005, 11:13 PM
Hammer down pic 59...

Fish
02-22-2005, 11:16 PM
Hammer down pic 60...

Scream And Fly
02-22-2005, 11:17 PM
GREAT photos! Keep them coming!

Also, if you want, you can post two at once now, and they will be thumbnails :)

Greg

Fish
02-22-2005, 11:21 PM
GREAT photos! Keep them coming!

Also, if you want, you can post two at once now, and they will be thumbnails :)

Greg

Sweet!! Thanks Greg, I really appreciate how hard you worked to get things back on track.

fish

Chummy
02-23-2005, 08:04 AM
Look at photos 54 & 55 the outside engines look like they are running choppers while the middle engine is running a thru hub prop

Cp
02-23-2005, 09:29 AM
Look at photos 54 & 55 the outside engines look like they are running choppers while the middle engine is running a thru hub prop

Saw that too. A little stern lift in the center and bow lift at the outsides? :eek:

PARKER RABE
02-23-2005, 11:51 AM
why are the pics so small?

Mark75H
02-23-2005, 11:53 AM
Because they are only thumbnail previews. Click on them to see the full size image

Scream And Fly
02-23-2005, 12:03 PM
Sam is right - it makes the pages load much quicker for dial-up users.

Parker, the photos are incredible. What do you think about restoring them for the gallery section I mentioned to you? I can do all of that - here's a quick color correction I made on one - the original is on the left.

Greg

PARKER RABE
02-23-2005, 04:15 PM
oh hell yes have at it , wow that looks great ! lets do it !

LakeRacer99
02-24-2005, 10:14 AM
Greg, Is this a new gallery or for the history section in the present gallery?
If you need any of the stuff from gallery 1 or 2, Parker has the hi-res stuff on a CD I burned when I scanned the slides. They are 5-7meg tifs.

Fish and Parker...The images are great keep them coming. Thanks for taking the time to do this, I know it is a chore.
I have space on my hard drive for all 5000, so keep them coming. :)

Mark75H
02-24-2005, 11:09 AM
I got a 100 gig external hard drive for Christmas .... oh, yeah baby ... keep them coming! ;)

Tom Foley
02-24-2005, 07:15 PM
Parker , got a pic of the Violator ? Wasn't that a Rabco ? I should have been living down here a lot sooner by the looks of all these pics !!! Boating in the T - Bay area has gotten way too controlled in the last 15 - 20 years , We need a full blown race environment again , it never hurt anybody (except a driver or two ) . Great stuff !!!!! Tom .

Scream And Fly
02-24-2005, 07:21 PM
Jason, I'm going to be creating a new "Hammer Down" gallery, just for all of these images. And believe me, I have as much space as you'll ever need. The machine I'm working on now has twin 160GB hard disks, and the file server I have here as four 200GB hard disks. :)

I could easily scan and batch process as much as you have - I'll restore the color too.

Greg

PARKER RABE
02-24-2005, 07:23 PM
Sure That Was A Rabco , That Boat Still Exists , Its White Now And Has Twin 540ci Mototrs In It , Super Loud! Has Old #4 Speedmasters Also , Runs Good !

Fish
02-25-2005, 08:55 PM
Hammer down pic 61...

Someone say violator???

Fish
02-25-2005, 08:56 PM
Hammer down pic 62...

Fish
02-25-2005, 08:56 PM
Hammer down pic 63...

Fish
02-25-2005, 08:56 PM
Hammer down pic 64...

wonder who this is???

Fish
02-25-2005, 08:56 PM
Hammer down pic 65...

blkmtrfan
02-26-2005, 02:26 PM
Parker, have you or your dad every tired to figure how many motors went thru his shop over the years. Looks to me like he kept mercury in business for a few years :D

PARKER RABE
02-26-2005, 04:26 PM
No Chit We Did , We Still Got About 5000 Pics To Go U Havent Seen Nothing Yet !

Fish
02-26-2005, 04:57 PM
No Chit We Did , We Still Got About 5000 Pics To Go U Havent Seen Nothing Yet !

parker, where ya at? I need to get those other pics from you. I am on park street, call me and I'll swing down and grab them if you are home. BTW, you seen vol IV yet? Just started it last night, but it is up.

sonic 70
04-26-2005, 02:47 PM
In my local Mercury HQ there is a pic of a boat called Miss Havasu from the aft quarter with nice polished stackers merc being merc they cannot help in regards to getting a print can any one help me it is such a great photo.

Mark75H
04-26-2005, 03:37 PM
Do you mean this picture?

sonic 70
04-26-2005, 05:03 PM
yes thats the one how can i get it without the text i cant beleive yo knew which one i was talking about

Mark75H
04-26-2005, 05:53 PM
Havasu from the aft quarter with nice polished stackers merc

Everyone on SnF knows that picture. It is one of the icons of it's day. Merc used it in the over sized 1972 sales brochure. If you watch for the 72 brochure on eBay you can own your own version of it. The cover art is a shark printed in all blue tones.

The full sized poster is much more rare and I'd say you are unlikely to find anyone willing to part with one of them.

Perhaps you could get a 72 sales brochure or find a magazine with the ad and have it photographed and printed poster size.

MODVP22
04-26-2005, 07:03 PM
That picture was also on the Mercury Racing 2004 callender

northcorn
10-17-2007, 08:48 AM
Pic #53 - This is the Kermit boat before it was painted with Kermit and 'It's not easy being Green'

PARKER RABE
10-17-2007, 11:15 AM
yes it was !

fountain1fan
12-24-2007, 10:21 AM
thank you for the pic love them please put more up thanks robbie .

mark benson
04-02-2009, 11:36 PM
Pic. # 23- #333 Bob Norskog - Switzer Wing
" # 39- #699 Bob Spalding - Molinari
" # 41- #76 Reggie Fountain

PARKER RABE
05-01-2010, 05:11 PM
ttt for a great thread

doramider7
09-05-2010, 10:24 AM
Hammer down pic 4
Hammer down pic 5

Anyone recognize this Mercury Ad? Anyone know who the girl in the picture is?

htower
09-30-2010, 05:33 PM
I had taken that brochure to a local shop, which that photo was the on two pages in the brochure . They melted and airbrushed the pages together, took out all the wording, touched up the boat and and blew it up on poster size photo paper. It cost me alot of money to have done , but way cool. I had several other photos done also.