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    A twin with V-6's is uncommon isn't it? That would have been from a very specific time

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    Quote Originally Posted by J. Sherlock View Post
    My second OPC ride..
    You and me bro.......... I just had to "overpower" mine...

    1965........

    Nice tow vehicle...That Vette must have been right before the El Camino......?

    No way we could have afforded both back in the day.....

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    jimbo Sherlock

    I like the second photo the best.
    John, Any photos of when you set the record in Valleyfield. The inboards had to make a special effort to beat your time and only did it by a fraction of a second if I remember correctly with a GNH. Probably one of the oustanding tunnel runs of all times considering the course and year.

    The Budweiser boat was one of my favorites especially when you cut the sides on it.
    Bruce

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    An average of 99.3 in 1984 on a surveyed coursewith a 2.0L is supper fast.

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    Hot Single............

    Quote Originally Posted by J. Sherlock View Post
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    Yup! It was pretty quick!

    How's the summer John?

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    Quote Originally Posted by J. Sherlock View Post
    Trying to race a CSH. First race was in Chattahoochee....

    Want to run a few more this year...
    Gotta give you credit for competing in CSH at your age John. Just watch out for one of those 60 lb. young'n's pass'n you by! lol

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    Csh

    Quote Originally Posted by J. Sherlock View Post
    Trying to race a CSH. First race was in Chattahoochee....

    Want to run a few more this year...
    Geez John...I take my hat (helmut) off to you! At this point for me I like something with nice soft seats............Someday I would like to take a tunnel for a little spin 'tho!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce Washburn View Post
    An average of 99.3 in 1984 on a surveyed coursewith a 2.0L is supper fast.
    John has to rank right up there with the best setup guys of all time........

    He always thrived on details.......... and it showed.

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    63!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by J. Sherlock View Post
    Forgot to mention, I won this first CSH race, and at 180 lb's with my ass planted against the clamp bracket!!

    No one looked at me as 63 after that......

    Geez John.......I'm justa a yungun......it seems! Congrats to to you and your spirit!

    I'm turning 60 Sept 8.

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    Havasu.....??

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    A twin with V-6's is uncommon isn't it? That would have been from a very specific time
    I sure think it is.....very uncommon. They didn't run Havasu in 1973, the rotary issue. When did they start racing there again and what was the format? Wouldn't those engines make it at least 1975?

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    Quote Originally Posted by J. Sherlock View Post
    Willabee who is they, when you say in 73, and when you say, when did they start racing again.
    There was no OWC in 73, I don't think Havasu hosted a race at all during Thanksgiving of 73. Did someone besides McCulloch/Evinrude pick the date up after that but didn't call it the OWC? If so, when did races resume at Havasu and what was the format?

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    The early 70's were a crisis time in the US ... inflation was crazy, Nixon, a Republican, imposed price controls and the Arabs stopped shipping oil to the west. It was hard to put on a large fuel consuming event and attract folks from around the world if there was no certainty there would be fuel to run the race and fuel to get home and many people weren't certain their jobs would still be there when they returned - sort of like today for a lot of people.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_wo...ket_chronology


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis

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    I was young then but kept up with racing in that era better than the most die hard Nascar fan ever thought about. No Havasu in '73. If memory serves me right the race was revived in '76 under the title of "The Havasu Classic." Went on for a number of years. Raced about a dozen of the APBA classes all together (tunnels and vees) and I believe shortened to 2 hours on Sat. and 2 hours on Sunday.

    Those v-6 mercs were only available to a priviledged and talented few in '73-'74. Don't think would have showed up as twins on a Jones boat in '73.
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    Twin V6's.....

    Quote Originally Posted by J. Sherlock View Post
    .....Havasu, anything goes........
    You didn't say the twin was at Havasu in 73.....When Mark75H asked about that boat being very time specific, you said "Havasu, anything goes."

    I was just trying to figure out when it raced there.

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    John:

    the last year I ran Havasu was '78 with Knarich in Reggies old "Spirit of '76" Molinari.... (The V-6 boat). Shortly after that we started the Offshore cat projects. I did not see any dual engine hulls at that time or in the 2 years prior (Before that v6's were not available to anyone but the team boats) . The classes were single V (Bill Muncey ran a Glastron OMC) SJ, SST (100), SST 120 (Carbureted 1750 xs 2 liters), and Mod U (Single FI T3's). Maybe they resurrected twin class after that. That was also about the time that the dual engine (canted) Allisons started to appear

    I believe that the twin jonesmight have been some outlaw hull from someplace (Hawaii??? New Zealand??) or a geezer like me putting together an older hull with too much power. If history has taught us anything the twin engine Jones hulls could not take much more power than a pair of stackers without "lift off". (That wonderful "snap flip" that only Jones and Ken Miles could design a boat around...


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