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Thorneywork’s ramblings make for some interesting reading!
wonder what he thought the rest of us did for a living?
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Attachment 471371
Thorneywork’s ramblings make for some interesting reading!
wonder what he thought the rest of us did for a living?
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No words necessary !
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Popular place for the drivers to stay. Right on the waterfront and minutes away from the pits/ then of course, there was the “DRAGONARA” Hotel with the famous KILN restaurant where everyone had those Las Vegas style breakfasts!
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Bristol eu’s running on home waters with a young Kevin McCorie In an OE.
Three course lunch for £2.95 them were the days !!
And the food was edible. To this day, I remember having eggs benedict with SEEBOLD in the Kiln every morning during race week.
...lol, you crack me up jackie...:smiletest:Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Ok enough is enough, I think we milked the cow dry !
Just a final flourish of the 1976 Embassy Bristol Grand Prix catalogue——?Attachment 471382Attachment 471383
Founder members of the Cotswold Club.
I might just have another rummage through the box. I was looking for the account I wrote of my time in Guys Hospital having a triple by-pass.
I did find it and a bonus was the “first time I met Chas Shooter” . Something I wrote over forty years ago. Its going in the book as a chapter on its own, Chas was my best friend for over forty years and deserves a special chapter of his own.
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Found this in a box up in the loft, did have this in my collection of outboards which went long ago. Suppose i ought to save it for someone like Roger H, thats if its any use at all. I know its a pre1939 Johnson parts manual. Were they ever meaningful in those far off days.Attachment 471521
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Time to play silly buggers once more, this is POWERBOAT from june 1978, just about the heyday of powerboat racing, both circuit and offshore. In this edition there was a shedload of information and personalities. For the next couple of days i shall be bombarding you with forty odd year old events and happenings And personalities.Attachment 471523
JAMES BEARD and ROZ KNOTT . Each month Bell Whisky would offer a Magnum of Whisky to the outstanding personality that month.
James was taken long before his time , he should be here with me enjoying his retirement. Friend of the nobility and us peasants.
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If you didnt know this man, you will certainly have heard of him. One of the top five raceboat drivers in the world.
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Lovely man and a very good friend of mine, he broke a few hearts in the USA and turned out to be a very good driver indeed .
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Tony Needell, founding father of the london Motor BOATRACING Club, had an office in half moon street and is the father of Tiff Needell., who you may have heard of, He never quite made it at anything, either cars or boats?
Tony was chief scrutineer at the CTC for many years.
...a beard boat...http://www.cougar-powerboats.com/_dy...a-iii-1977.jpg
Think that might have been Ken Cassir.Quote:
Originally Posted by FUJIMO
...yes, you are correct jackie. but a boat that beard designed. its in black & white, in your nice magazine photo...https://www.screamandfly.com/attachm...3&d=1597325173Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
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something quite close to my heart, i had aspirations of trundling it round the course at tavares just one time, but i guess that ain’t never going to happen!
...been over this before jackie, but can't recall the answer...the little mercruiser alpha sterndrive you used on that boat...that you bolted the speedmaster to the bottom of...which speedmaster did you use...the MC1? oil flow was required from top to bottom through a hole or passage between the two halfs...how was this handled...or do you even remember yourself, lol...? if you can't remember thats o.k. too...no biggy...;)
Now, i am fortunate indeed to have the two engineers who made a mercruiser leg and bottom end stay together as friends to this day. Malcolm TYRRELL and Ian “Hawkeye” Hawkins. Both have been retired for a few years now . Malcolm retired from COSWORTHS. Ian had moved to the USA with ILMOR HAVING LEFT COSWORTH ENGINEERING .Quote:
Originally Posted by FUJIMO
Remember we had 400 horsepower going through that leg, so the first thing they did was to replace the splined shaft with a quill shaft , about as thick as your finger.
Next up was to make the gearcase do its job without failures . I had a temperature gauge and a pressure gauge.
Afraid i cant remember where i put my specs in the workshop, but i will ask Hawkeye for you.
...when you say replaced the splined shaft, i take it you mean the vertical driveshaft. this had to be a special length as well. i take it, it was an MC1 gearcase.
No Fuji, I meant the floppy bit that connects the motor to the drive shaft, has a UJ. EVERY CAR IN THE WORLD HAS ONE. OVER HERE WE CALL EM PROP SHAFTS.Quote:
Originally Posted by FUJIMO
...gotcha...language barrier, lol. MerCruiser has always simply called them an input shaft. they have been available in many different lengths since then.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
That maybe so Fuji, but i bet mercury never made an indestructible “ Quill shaFt “as Duckworth used to call it , or “ a very desirable piece of kit”. This particular shaft never let me down once , together with the centrifugal clutch. tickover was 3000, hit the pedal , at 4000 the drive came in, 400 hp went through that quill shaft. Twisted like a corkscrew before unwinding And sending the power gently down the leg without breaking spines or anything like that. Bit like a soft start on today’s power tools.Quote:
Originally Posted by FUJIMO
How am I doing so far?
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Think Alfie got to jockeyone of these Molinari’s.
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Renato and Billy were the two top contenders for the Best ever circuit driver !
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bollocks !!!! Ive had better days than this/. Not one of jenks better days.!
NOT the only time a Cosworth has connected to a Mercruiser---Attachment 471593Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
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yup, looks like the one.Quote:
Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM
I remember an offshore boat that had them, everyone said it wont work and it didnt I seem to remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
I guess the owner had a lesson in torque
Think the owners were Mercury, COSWORTH sent the two engineers that put my boat together stateside to supervise the effort.Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Believe me when I tell you , that pair know more about TORQUE than anyone else in the world !
Part of the team that made the motor part of the chassis in the first monocoque ever !
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Had an altercation with the polisher, took a chunk out of my palm, damn but thats tender right now.
if they knew about torque they would have known they needed 4 of them to get 2 x 700lbsft or so at any rpm to shift a Class 1 boatQuote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
would have been a good engine in an outboard class...
Renato Molinari racer: by Christopher Wright in the Embassy program.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Some would say he had to win. And that definitely does not make him the most popular man in Bristol.
Molinari has no great love for the Gentlemen of the Press.
“Non Comprende” when he does not want to talk to you in English
Arrogant, he does appear a little bit that way to some jaundiced journalists, and a few other powerboat drivers.
Molinari is a loner; he has a job to do. He wants to get on to it.
8 times World Champion.
10 times European Champion.
4 times Paris 6 Hour winner.
2 times Havasu winner.
2 times Parker winner.
(Article’s 1978 stats).
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I (the lakeside kid) remind myself, that personalities sell books.
Statistical wins wow us; engine specifications draw our attention and are worthy to be told.
But humans connect more with humans, and therefore sell more books, than books about machines. Men and their machines … and more so the men, and women too.
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Renato Molinari and his scafo (hull), on the cover.
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