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Thread: Hot Singles ! - Pictures
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05-27-2009, 10:05 AM #9616000 RPM
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Mercury had won !!!!!!! and most of the prize money. ----i was laid in the hospital in Flagstaff when Charlie Alexander walked in with Pruett and announced we were all off to Ceasers Palace { winners always stayed there} and said your share of the purse is $4,000. It may not sound a lot today, but then it was a shedful. Think it was Kubes who sat alongside Pruett for the journey, whilst i laid in the back of his Pontiac station wagon on top of all the clobber that racing drivers cart around with them. Were going through this canyon when we spy this big old wild goat on top of an outcrop just ahead.
He takes off in huge leaps and bounds and starts to come down that slope like a mad thing, Pruett is whooping and a hollering and yelling "look at that mother jump", he was getting ever closer and moving at a rapid rate of knots, We were slowed to about 30 mph to watch this old beastie, when he leaps clean onto the hood of Pruetts shiny new Pontiac and off again. Cannot begin to tell you the language the old boy used, but he definitely had no mother and father ,and something about nuts off if he had a gun with him. Kubes and i just thought it was super funny. But the fun had only just begun !!!
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05-27-2009, 12:18 PM #9626000 RPM
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There'd more if anyone wants it
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05-27-2009, 12:48 PM #963
Last edited by willabee; 05-27-2009 at 02:37 PM.
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05-27-2009, 01:00 PM #964
It wasn't a twin.....
Thanks John, that is exactly what Mark Poole was describing. So the bigger (II) boat ran in 1970, the original must have run in 1969. Maybe this is the one that flipped, I sure seem to remember the original running well the entire race. Hopefully, someone will remember for sure.
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05-27-2009, 01:40 PM #965
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05-27-2009, 03:01 PM #96620 Foot Switzer Wing 2 X S3000 (Dust'n the Wind II)
!6 foot Wood Eltro Vee (2X Merc 1500's) (Dust'n the Wind IV)
15 foot Powercat 15C (2 X Merc 1500) (Dust'n the Wind III)
(Single engine boats are lacking something)
15’ Wooden Switzer Shooting Star...
16 foot Lee Craft Merc S 3000-(Gold Dust II)
(The exception proves the rule)
Obsolete and Proud of it
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05-27-2009, 03:35 PM #9675000 RPM
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Vegas
Mr. Wilson......more Vegas please. LOL. Smitty
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05-28-2009, 03:41 AM #9686000 RPM
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O.K. Smitty, will tell you more about Vegas over the next couple of days. Will have to be heavily edited to protect the innocent, but promise to tell all at the old farts do in october. Remember we were immortal at that time, and as gods we acted the part, specially one called Billy Don Pruett. Bear with me for a while. Got into a bun fight over the Rotaries, [the damn things have been trouble since they were born] and have to answer the accusations first.
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05-28-2009, 09:44 AM #9696000 RPM
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Just a quickie for Willabee. Do you think the OMC rotary deserves a place on the "HOT SINGLES" thread. If it were up to me i would say yes it does. But i reserve the right to fire crap at it, if and when the need arrises O.K. Am still getting my act together for Smitty and the others .
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05-28-2009, 11:15 AM #970
Pictures of rotary race boats are fair game, especially pics of OMC's in front I feel the OMC rotary history should stay in it's own thread.
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05-28-2009, 11:18 AM #9716000 RPM
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Just a suggestion----but it was a "fairly" hot single.
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05-28-2009, 11:26 AM #972
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05-28-2009, 01:06 PM #973
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05-28-2009, 01:44 PM #974
I have talked with the nephew of the man that built the Geechee and he said that they used the "lines" of a McCall but used their own ideas along with that.
Have to remember that in 1968 tunnel boat design was something that few people were pursuing and a lot of it was seat of the pants engineering. The Geechee had a huge fan club that helped to make it "legendary". But now when you look back, those boys just happened to touch on a design that was a front runner in its day.
In its last races ('74ish) it was raced with a Super Strangler and it was FAST. I saw it!1970 15' Allison/135 Chrysler stacker
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05-28-2009, 03:44 PM #975
Geechee.....
That's what I have been wondering about. Olegator says it looked a lot like his first McCall and you say they said that they used the "lines" of a McCall. I wonder if a McCall might have actually entered the north end of the D.F. Jenks Service Shop and, after some modifications, out of the south end emerged a Geechee? When you see the red paint, McCall is definately not the first thing that comes to mind. But then when you really start looking at it's lines, that thought starts to creep into your mind (at least it does in mine).
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