YOU MAKE ME ENVIOUS JIM Rosies sounds like a fun place to be, Bon Voyage for the 26th trip.
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YOU MAKE ME ENVIOUS JIM Rosies sounds like a fun place to be, Bon Voyage for the 26th trip.
well i found some old pictures in an album in the garage..my first ride...a go cart with twins......
many many hot laps down old cutler road, we lived by snapper creek canal
then THE BOAT an.... american marc .....first with merc 700 then with merc 1000.
..if you look close i moved the steering to the center of the boat i had a fiat seat in it...and just missed getting to run it in the last gold coast maratnhon
we moved to las vegas, and the other picture is running lake mead.
i pulled the marc with my 57 chevy..notice the dual quads, and after village custom painted it and did a custom ram air scoop between the hood peaks....I totaled it into a tree on lejune road on the way to gables high school..
so the next picture was my 64 GTO which towed the marc.
this pictures are my piece of heaven from miami in the 60's
I have no idea where Ronnie wound up. I once heard that he had moved to the Orlando area when his folks were getting on in years.
Thanks to Leonard Wolff I have been found. Leonard will never be Charlie to me. More to come.
Welcome to S&F Don.Quote:
Originally Posted by DonPearson
Don Pearson along with Butch Stokes, Oliver Land, Jimmie Sewares, Richie Baiz, Barry Evans, and George Griley were my very best friends in the early to Mid 60's. All were OPC boat racers. Richie and George have passed away, but I am still in contact with all of the remaining!
Don and I built engines, raced boats, drag raced our 63 and 64 Fuel Injected Vettes and did everything together. We would get 2 girls Don and I in a 2 seat Corvette and go to the beach, movies or just cruise. Once we got cop caught, racing our vettes at a buck forty! Got off lightly, but thats another story.
BOB HEWES went to HEAVEN
last night about 7;30 with the family at his side POP POP went to sleep gracefully quietly....now his next" goodride" is to heaven because if anybody deserves heaven he does.
he raced fox lake illinois in the 30's I have a trophy from 1937 on my desk....yeah he and his dad had a roller bearing on the top crank journal..and had the original bushing there for the inspectors....yeah he had the Miami / new York marathon record for a while he had a lot of karl K stories. POP POPs friends and people whoworked for him list is long and wide The Lanhams ,danny lynch, Knocky house all of you out there!!!
we had a saying every boat ride is a "goodride' . a couple pictures attatched of just a few of pop pops
goodrides
May he rest in Peace....... and race with God.
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Originally Posted by T2x
you know he will and thanks t2x
[QUOTE=joelsob;1997495]BOB HEWES went to HEAVEN
Joel: My condolences to the family------Rest in Peace--Bob Hewes----
Gene Lanham
For those that have not read this thread I am bringing it back up.
We had OFF2010 last week and almost everyone written about in "Letters from Heaven"was either at OFF or has passed away.
A big part of OFF celebrates and commerates the accomplishments of our deceased.
A partial list of the Florida racers not with us anymore.
George Griley
Richie Baiz
Charlie Dunn
Herbie Reeves
Bill Siros
Roy Ridgill SP?
Phil Young
I have included those that were big during my time in OB OPC racing. I know that there are many more. Anyone that wants to add to the list feel free to do so.
Marine Stadium Is Coming Back. Thanks to the work of local historians and preservationists, Miami Marine Stadium is undergoing a renovation project to restore it for boat racing, music concerts, etc.
Anyone who has a memory of Marine Stadium on Virginia Key is invited to share. The committee to bring back Marine Stadium is publishing a book of memories.
To add your contribution to this book of Marine Stadium Memories, send your stories via email to Donald Worth at [email protected]
See the Friends of Miami Marine Stadium web site: http://www.marinestadium.org/
On a personal note, I have many fond memories of races at the stadium (and Pelican Harbor) with my uncles Roy and Bobbie Ridgell. Also, my first rock concert was the Magic Bus tour of The Who in 1968 at Marine Stadium. <[email protected]></[email protected]>
Wow this thread....went to bed for almost a year...
We still have bob Hewes stories even thouh he has been gone almost a year..
He talked about the time the Allison rep came by the shop on north river drive with 3 allison 15s on the truck Bob said he would buy all 3 if allison threw in the freight...the rep said no.......When Bob went to lunch nhis salesman said unload the allisons i'll pay the freight..When Bob got back they they were and gene lanham raced many times in one of those boats at the marine stadium.
I lived over by the Uof M back then and we would ride bicycles all the way to key biscayne to see the races.
I remember the shreik of the twin mercs on the Switzer wing tunnells.
There was a boatrunning ? with a big block chrysler hemi oh mona I think was the name the stadium would rattle when he came by.
then can you imagine miss budweiser unlimited hdroplane wound up heading in to the stadium seeing the rows of pine trees getting closer and closer ..i still have a poster from one of those races!!!
on any given sunday part of our bay running included a lap or two of the stadium we would make a few passes as if we were racing.
In the early 70's during the time they built the key biscayne golf course, I worked at fred's island shell station on the key..I had a bultaco dirt bike and we would ride the back trails..go over bear cut bridge and just 1/2 mile down from the stadium there was a beach everybody called nudie beach. there were trails back in from there and you get get the dirt bikes back into the piney woods across from the grandstand we ran so long we would bring extra fuel, and there were mudpits back in there and we would go swimming looking over at the stadium.
Robert. I lived on alfonso ave from 57-68, and ran the gables waterway 100's of times we would always end up on the runs at the stadium.
One night my friend Brooks and about 6 of us...who the oldest was probable 17 decided to make a run to the stadium in brooks dads new s22 with a daytona 409 in it....as we were running that last stretch out the gableswaterway i remember the dash lights were too bright, and wide the f open all of a sudden POW we glanced off a marker right at the beginning of the bay...we were still haulin' arse and I told brooks I smell raw fiberglass
I opened the cabin door and could look out at the water thru a hole above the chine about 3 feet long......Brooks house was on alfonso too so we made a sweep and ran in wide open to keep the gash above the water..we pulled up to the dock and had the boat on the davits before it sunk..He told his dad he did not know how the hole got there that night we did not make it to the marine stadium for a lap or two, and that was my only ride in the north american s-22
Robert thanks for starting this marine stadium topic back up...I know you will have a lot of friends write about stories at the stadium.
I have an idea for you...maybe one day this summer we could have a
"raft up at the marine stadium" get together day...
..anyone that had an old raceboat, anyone that has any boat..anyone that remembers the stadium or wanted to come is welcome.
what do ya' think???
darn it the Bultaco dirt bike is gone now if I could just run those woods 1 more time....
joel feeger
joels outboard service
ftl fla
Bob Hewes sold my mom my first boat a 62 glasspar with a white merc 700 that got me started
funny thing...
I also had a Bultaco dirt bike, a Pursang 250, also went to CGHS and lived off Old Cutler and Davis Road
If you'd like to contribute to the Marine Stadium memories, but do not wish to write your story, Don is happy to call you back to capture your stories over the phone.
Donald Worth [email protected]
Rob
Attachment 233532hey , man did you know steve or john keedy..they lived on twin lakes
we used to sneak in the backside of the park back there and thrash around in there...I graduated in 64
we lived on old cutler at 11501 aroud 62 across from the snapper creek marina I learned 2 stroke engines I had twins on a go kart and used to run all around snapper creek estates..that was 62 I puked a motor and an outboard 2 stroke guy in the gables made stuffers for the crankcase and souped those engines
they had points and he made a cutoff switch called maverick spark after about 5000 rpm the switch bypassed the points to give spark all the time it was like nitrous when you flipped the switch.. over by the airport on lejune road at the aircraft school there was an outlaw go kart track...a guy had a simplex cart with a 50 merc outboard...direct drive and a radiator between his legs on the steering hoopstraight exhaust ..2 guys would push him off and that go kart would smoke the tires for 100 feet...
so as to not rob this thread mat\ybe start a gables,old cutler south miami gas burner thread gotta 100 stories from 56 chevies to rumi scooters to ariel square 4 motorcycles to merc 1000's and 13 whalers with 50 mercs..glastron gt 150 with merc 900..lotsa stories..
and that bultaco was such a great bike I could hold a wheelie in 3rd for a mile...maybe some of the guys remember BLENDZALL green castor oil and I still have a unopened can of BLENDZALL gold castor oil with nitromethane
1 pint to 2 gallons and you had 30 % more power
write it up miami heaven in the 60's/70's whatever and the marine stadium was so special!!!
lets meet up I'll bring my allison 2001 river racer and take you for a ride.. only good for about 88mph with a stock 175 intruder....6000 rpm with a 29 sstrx and runs straight and true
gonna cut the revlimiter and know 90 + is there
joel
we gotta get more going about the marine stadium and all meet up there this summer