The most incredible boat racing historic photo effort the internet has ever seen!

[Scream And Fly]

For over a year, Parker has been mentioning the massive collection of slides and photos he has from his dad, most dating back to the most interesting times in racing - the 50s, 60s, 70, etc. We're talking photos of the coolest stuff here - and thousands of them... Many thousands. Apparantly, Parker's dad was a lot like me in the fact that he took a lot of photos.

Parker warned me there would be a lot of photos, and the box arrived today. Weighing in at close to 50 pounds and filled with an estimated 20,000 slides, this will be an incredible effort. I looked at some of these slides already and they are incredible.

All of the slides and photos will be scanned professionally, and at very high resolution, then color-corrected. The photos will look as good as the day they were taken.

I'm going to have all of it scanned and hosted on Scream And Fly. That's right, all of it. We're going to set aside all the needed server space to do it, and a dedicated gallery as well. It will certainly take time, but in the end, thanks to Parker and his dad Scream And Fly will have the most amazing historic boat racing photo collection.

Thank you Parker - now I have my work cut out for me. :D

Greg

[Frank Molé]

sounds cool:cool: but lots of fun work,good luck:D

[Mark75H]

Awesome! I can't wait to see the results ... I know what a monumental task this is:eek:

[Tom Foley]

Oh No !! Not a chronological history of Parker from diapers to mad dog and wig !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This should be a great series of photos etc . !!

[LakeRacer99]

You sure have your work cut out for you. Thanks for taking the time to do this, and thanks to Parker for sharing his family photos.
It was quite a chore when I tried to do this for him...Jody had to finish them up cause Parker wanted to get this stuff up so bad! I didn't really do any correction on them either! hehe

[Scream And Fly]

I may have them professionally scanned, then run some macros on one of my editing machines here for the color correction and other things. We'll see, it's going to take a while though.

[beer30]

I definitely can't wait to see those pictures. That was really great of Parker to share them with us, and Greg to take the time to scan them and then post them.:) Chuck

[drasticplastic]

Great, this should be quite sweeeeet.

[Ted Stryker]

I'm ready - I'm ready - I'm ready... This is gonna gonna get Me in trouble with My Girlfriend when they're downloaded... :D

[Da Bull]

I'm ready - I'm ready - I'm ready... This is gonna gonna get Me in trouble with My Girlfriend when they're downloaded... :D

What, She don`t belive in look but don`t touch?

DB

[The Big Al]

Well big thanks to Parkers Dad and Parker.

And greg a thank you before hand.

This sounds like something big.

[Fish]

very cool Greg. I talked to Parker 4 times this week and each time heard about the slides how much this gallery is gonna kick azzzzz!!!! Like Lake racer said, until you have done it, you have no idea how big a job this is... and we only did a few hundred.

Thanks Greg and Parker, that is gonna be one helluva addition to S&F.

Fish

[thaw ripper]

:cool::cool::cool:

[chris_lacey]

Just when I thought this site couldn't get much better.

Thanks Parker and Greg. Now I'll really be in trouble at work. "ARE YOU ON THE INTERNET AGAIN?"

[SCT]

Parker/ Greg, I can't wait! What a great addition to S&F. How will you sort the pixs? Yrs? Decade? Class?

Good luck-

[oldschoolltv]

This will be great, thanks Parker and Greg!!! cant wait alot of what he has is when I was a kid and My dad was racing should bring back some memories, Matt

[moparbarn]

just want to add my sincere appreciation for the amount of effort this wiil take. can't wait!

AIRWALK

[yellowallison]

THANKS GREG and PARKER:p :p :p :p

[blkmtrfan]

WOW :cool:

Can't wait to see that!!

[JUPITER PULSARE]

Wow, it would be kool to categorize them by manufacturer through the years. Then you would be able to see the evolution of the boats/motors as the years went by. There's probably some very unique Allison, Checkmate, Hydrostream, Sleekcraft, etc. vintage pictures in that collection!!

[MODVP22]

Awesome Greg! Pakrer showed me some of this stuff when I first met him years ago, and there are truely some amazing images. This is going to amazing!

[PARKER RABE]

Stat Tuned Guys ....your All Gonna Freak , Twisters , Bps , Stackers , All Sorts Of Inlines , Tons Of Speedmasters, T3 Stuff And Lots Of Early 2.4 Stuff .....and S $hit Load Off Early Offshore Stuff!

[PARKER RABE]

Once We Post These , I Have About 50.000 More That We Can Scan !

[Capt.Doug Metko]

Thanks guys for this undertaking:D

I just wonder how many of these pics will incriminate Parker:eek: ...

[Tripps]

I hope there are KT's,GN's and flatties,all goin fast!!!:D :D :D tripps

[PARKER RABE]

not alot of ktboats , but some killer blown flatbottom stuff , plus some sanger stuff

[JW]

Gonna be cool! :p