Attachment 452899Donzi 44’ with four on bum.
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Attachment 452899Donzi 44’ with four on bum.
Attachment 452900Damn but that Fountain Tunnel is a good looking craft !
They won’t tell me its top speed——- just that it ran OVER 130 mph.
Pair of those Mercury lumps will set you bock over a hundred grand!
been known to bang on a few in years past. if i could do it, anybody could. never had to use a hoist as i saw mark use last time i was in his shop. he knows what to do with a prop.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
---And then Bobby Massey show up with it a Havasu 69---didn't finish in the top 30----Quote:
Originally Posted by AZMIDLYF
Just had that feeling you would know something about it Gene—— weren’t enough wings produced to let one slip by unnoticed——- same thing with the tunnels in England—— knew every single one—— who bought them—— who raced them.! But I could not tell you where any of them finished up!Quote:
Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM
Same thing with the MM Cold Moulded 16’ Levi’s—— show me the boat and I’ll tell you who raced it—— but I have no idea where even a single one is today!
Sad note, Pete Currington has passed away.
https://www.powerboatracingworld.com...VroNjquOSZ_pwU
Lot of the old stalwarts passing away—- James—- Clive— Now Pete ! That’s a big chunk of the old Cougar setup!
Attachment 452946Out of the Wilson shop forty years ago.Attachment 452947 Out of the Wilson shop Today !
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pick the bits out of those three and I’ll post more?
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there’s an interesting quartet !!Attachment 452965 But trouble.Attachment 452966
Or quintet—— sextet—- or whatever ????
Reggie's I think is the 'Rhino' Twistercraft that later came to Canada (Oley Berkis) and later got pickle-forked and had Seebold cowlings installed.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
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38’ tunnel boat deck mold—— sitting outside Marks old workshop in stuart !
Fill in Tunnel—— Have Gene Langham on top, tying down—- then it looks very much like Keikhaefer Aeromarine 111.
Amazing what you can see if you just open your eyes !
Crisis—- Peters—- FUJI—— need you to find me some good clear pictures of the original SEEBOLD/Sidewinder—- Sasquatch——- Westlake V12 Jaguar powered!
Lembske Boys owned it —— Won Parker with it!
Have a request to fernagle one by an enthusiast who’s not short of a bob or two!
Most of my clientele are “Impecunious Enthusiasts”—— so I have to make a great job of this one!
Damned if I could find out where I’d stored previous piccies!
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Unloved—— unwanted—— guess the last owner must have bought a VERADO.
Mucho Grassy arse—— you got me out of a jam Crisis—- My grand daughter is on a mission to find it and bring it back to life——- !
Not the glass Jobby hung up in the bar of a watering hole out in the boondocks!
Any information will be gratefully received !
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Spending the day with my grandkids Lou and Gary in Jupiter at the Geico workshops—- I have permission to photograph anything except the secret sh-t.
will start posting tonight after I’ve gone to bed !
Leave for Englewood Thursday morning——- block party Friday night—— come on down and have some fun.
Calling Billy later in the day, trying to persuade him to spend Sunday at the races!
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By the cringe—- you won’t see this many super boats anywhere else in the world—— must be a dozen or more, shudder to think how many motors there are skulling around the shop!
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Amazing place—- Scotty B picked up his Rolls Royce—- I still have to get the Aeromarine 111 to him somehow.
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There you go—— most up to date thread on S+F —— thats today—— not pre 1980——- not the tenth time of showing——- present day pictures.
I may be getting old , but the “Tricks” site is bang up to date!!!
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MR.RICKY was a strange character who loved boat racing! Here’s his comic paper which later became a magazine—- love him or hate him he put boat racing on the map more than anyone else—— surely somebody out there has a story about him!
Cannot believe that no one knows MR. RICKY.
His girl friend ran a KT boat called BIG DEE. He was swarthy skinned—— looked Venezuelan or Colombian—— never knew his nationality.
He would send or print in his rag pictures he knew you would like——— then send you a bill for them.
Spending a couple of days in Naples with the Seebolds—— have always been welcomed here.
Michael came in tonight. Tomorrow we are going for a boat ride. Relaxing at last!
Hells teeth—— I might even get to wear a pair of shorts today—— clear skies and temperature in the high seventies. Breakfast with SEEBOLD then a boat ride does it get any better than this?
Been rushing around Naples and Marco island like a looney—— good breakfast at Kate’s Cafe—- then a typical old farts meet at the workshop—— drinking beer, telling jokes and just hanging loose, shooting the breeze with SEEBOLD and friends !
Trailed a boat across to GOODMAN , dropped it off and had lunch at a raw bar close to the marina, damn but the food was simply the best!—— crabs and shrimp—— cold beer ! Piccies later!
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Condom for “MISS GEICO” ?
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just some of the sights to be seen walking round the Geico plant!
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Big boys toys!
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Lumps and bumps all over the place !
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there’s interesting and then there’s Verrrreeee interesting!
This storage facility in Goodland has room for six hundred boats—- most of the rigs are dual or triple engine rigs——- out of the hundred and twenty plus outboard motors in this building alone Most were Japanese—— I could count on one hand the number of Mercury’s——- never saw a single Rude !
Clearly Trump is too lenient on the import tax on foreign outboard motors.
Smart move by the Japanese to build the tax payer funded facility —— employ local labour—- but send the profits back to the Far East——- ME NO BRUDDY SIRRY !Attachment 453233Attachment 453234
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100 mph houseboats—— changing face of boating in the USA today.
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Now that’s a damn good looking 38’ high deck Fountain!
Well sod that for a game of soldiers——- not a single reply yesterday——I DONT flog dead horses——- I’m taking the day off——- so talk amongst yourselves.
I am “otherwise engaged “——- resting and unreachable!
To all the “old farts”, Kenny Hudnell “. “Copped his Clogs”. Yesterday——— had an aneurysm and died at home———— used to race the SEEBOLD. ”.VALVOLINE” RIP KENNY, J+M.