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Thread: Hot Singles ! - Pictures
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06-19-2009, 01:53 PM #1096
A twin with V-6's is uncommon isn't it? That would have been from a very specific time
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06-19-2009, 02:16 PM #1097
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20 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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06-19-2009, 06:11 PM #10985000 RPM
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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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06-21-2009, 08:53 PM #11025000 RPM
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06-22-2009, 06:55 AM #110320 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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06-22-2009, 08:50 PM #11045000 RPM
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06-23-2009, 11:25 AM #1105
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06-23-2009, 03:21 PM #1106
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06-23-2009, 03:32 PM #1107
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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06-23-2009, 03:44 PM #1108
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 '73.1970 15' Allison/135 Chrysler stacker
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06-23-2009, 03:46 PM #1109
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06-23-2009, 05:29 PM #1110
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...
T2x20 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