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    Quote Originally Posted by Lake X Kid View Post
    The first American showing of this three year old Italian design was old number 888 which Roy Ridgell of the Kiekhaefer Mercury team drove to a smahing sixth overall with a single engine in the last Miami-Palm Beach version of the Gold Coast Marathon.
    But Aronow saw the boats in action while he was touring Europe last summer on his way to the world driving title, and bought a couple for study. The Molinari had won the rugged 6 hour Marathon of Paris two straight years, and even Aronow was impressed. He and the Magnum development team analyzed them from stem to stern and after months of testing, revising and re-designing the twin-keel Maltese magnum 16 went into production.
    in the words of Don Aronows son (Michael), www.boatdesign.net
    The other story is that Aronow simply hired Dieter Schulze to come to FL and build two prototypes.

    Since Mr Schulze has also passed away, we may never know.

    I believe Michael would have been in school at this time and Brownie had not yet joined the company.

    Possibly a combination of the 2 stories?

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    Did the M.M. Missile live up to its bold hype as "the first super-speed boat", or was that a little brazen advertisement by the Aronow Company?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lake X Kid View Post
    Did the M.M. Missile live up to its bold hype as "the first super-speed boat", or was that a little brazen advertisement by the Aronow Company?
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    The Missile did live up to it's image and it's name-----




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    Quote Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM View Post
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    The Missile did live up to it's image and it's name-----



    One picture is worth a thousand words....

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    Whoever is the driver sure was hanging on until the inevitable.

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    Any tunnel boat can blow over. No doubt it was seriously over powered and tail heavy. The fact that the boat is open behind the driver with no cowling did not help. Probably a young gun driver who didn't know the warning signs.
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    16 foot and dual engines, I wouldn't blame it all on 'young gun', back in the day saw a few 'experienced guns' in the same posture (they even had cowlings)Click image for larger version. 

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    The boat on the right in the 'young gun' position was Mr. Bob Hering and the boat on the left approaching 'young gun' position was Cees Van der Velden.
    1972 I think?

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    WOW!!! Keep the history coming,very cool!!! Tim

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    Quote Originally Posted by timmc6 View Post
    WOW!!! Keep the history coming,very cool!!! Tim
    +1! Gary

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    The driver of Miss Magnum was Guy Radiano and I am pretty sure the other driver in the picture was Wally Quallman. Every twin Magnum Missle I ever saw I saw blow over.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2us70 View Post
    The driver of Miss Magnum was Guy Radiano and I am pretty sure the other driver in the picture was Wally Quallman. Every twin Magnum Missle I ever saw I saw blow over.
    Yesterday I asked Guy if that was him and he confirmed it. The said that he ran that boat with Jim Hunt in Havasu. Guy worked for Dave Craig in the 60's.

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    Some more aerobatics...

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    ugh, nothing good was going to come out of the second pic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mbd29 View Post
    Yesterday I asked Guy if that was him and he confirmed it. The said that he ran that boat with Jim Hunt in Havasu. Guy worked for Dave Craig in the 60's.
    First time I blew a tunnel over was at Iver Heath, Joe Swift and Roy Ridgell were watching, it was the big Torriggia. 1964/5 can't remember exactly
    Had left the whole field for dead and was on the long home stretch heading into the wind, the bitch just did a perfect 360 -------landed a tad one sided----------twisted the steering wheel into a figure eight, pointed it straight and carried on.
    Roy sauntered up and said, knew you were going over sometime today, surprised you lasted that long, did the same thing myself last week in Florida, 'cept I bent the boat more than you did.
    It was the first tunnel boat to run in England, was two years before the next one came, that was a Schulze I brought in.

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    Click image for larger version. 

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ID:	290849A few more (poor quality) scans of my dad's Molinari on the day he had a big get off.

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