Hot Singles ! - Pictures

[jackie wilson]

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 !!!

[jackie wilson]

There'd more if anyone wants it

[willabee]

Harold Eis raced in a Stylecraft catamaran...... unless he had something else later..... Stylecrafts were not one offs like the Geechee (see another Stylecraft below)....T2x

Technically you are correct.....However, I'm sure you will agree that for someone to take a hull and win Havasu in 1964 with (maybe) a pair of stock 1000's and then lead Parker in 1971 using stacked 1350's with speedmasters says something about the uniqueness of the boat.

[willabee]

1970 Lake Havasu........

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.

[Old fiberglass]

There'd more if anyone wants it

Of course we want the hear more. Just play nice in the sandbox with the OMC guys

[T2x]

Technically you are correct.....However, I'm sure you will agree that for someone to take a hull and win Havasu in 1964 with (maybe) a pair of stock 1000's and then lead Parker in 1971 using stacked 1350's with speedmasters says something about the uniqueness of the boat.

or the motors......

[ssmith007]

Mr. Wilson......more Vegas please. LOL. Smitty

[jackie wilson]

Mr. Wilson......more Vegas please. LOL. Smitty

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.

[jackie wilson]

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 .

[Old fiberglass]

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.

[jackie wilson]

Just a suggestion----but it was a "fairly" hot single.

[willabee]

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.

We already have some rotary stuff here, it began with the Parker race on page 11, post 164. Even posted a picture of Mr. Sheldon on page 12, post 168! It didn't generate much interest.

[willabee]

Was a full deck tunnel, not a pickle fork.

Do you see anything "McCall-ish" about the two Geechee's that we have posted photos?

[Mark Poole ModVP]

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!

[willabee]

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......

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).