John McCall truly believed in the tunnel boat concept. When I traded my McCall tunnel back to him for a v-bottom he was reluctant to build another one of those "wobbly v-bottoms". John did not like to follow or copy other builders designs and tried to go his own way. The variety of tunnel designs being tried at that time was due to the fact that most builders were just guessing what would work. I tested a couple of tunnels for guys that thought they had the answer. One of them was so bad that after a few passes I put it on the trailer and told the builder to "burn it before it kills someone". Good tunnel boats were mostly the result of good guesses at that time. paUOTE=willabee;2506098]mbd29 (Butler) sent me an email before you two posted and said it is a McCall. I responded with "I don't recall a good 'sit-down' McCall". Then you two said it's a McCall, so McCall it is ..... and I still don't recall a good sit-down McCall! :o
Back to Eufaula, here is a shot probably from the drivers meeting. Dick Sherrer with Mary West on his right. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think Dick got as much credit as he deserved. He was not only a good, steady driver, but he could build boats, set them up and work on his own engines. Very few in this game were capable of performing all of those tasks well.
Mary was the promoter behind the Provo 250 races. It was she that decided to let those outlaw, big cube rogue rotarys into the 73 race. :mad: She also covered OPC for Powerboat for a couple of years. Come to think of it, that's probably why she decided in favor of admitting the rotary .... her employer made her the ol' "offer she couldn't refuse"! :D
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Here we have a meeting of the minds to decide what the engine timing really is ..... looks like the top of Beier's head, Shunk on the left & LaMore on the right.
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