You never did tell us the story of this one Jackie.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
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You never did tell us the story of this one Jackie.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Nothing to tell Phill. Once Don got an idea, he would see it through to the end. He found a chippy. Drew the boat himself and simply had it made. He did more experimental boats for Charlie Sheppard than any one ever knew. I had the same chippy build me a boat, i knew it would be a world beater.Quote:
Originally Posted by ron54
I Couldnt get mine to work either !!!!
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Originally Posted by willabee
It was a very nice wedding - my one and only Italian wedding. That is so cool that you still have the invite.
I never did get an invite, Guess even Giorgio was caught up in me and Renato’s disagreements.Quote:
Originally Posted by GrewuponLakeX
To be fair, I had dropped out of the racing scene from 1971 to 1974, I was trying to get the new Garage business up and running.
Jackie, I do not remember if Giorgio raced at all in 1973, before his upcoming 1974 wedding.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Sometime and I do not recall what year it was, but Giorgio went to Wisconsin for some Merc tech school training.
So I think the Molinari family and Giorgio reasoned, that Giorgio was better suited to twirl a wrench than put on a race helmet.
Side story: how many Italians can you fit in a Fiat 500?
I had eaten several times with Giorgio & Stefania and their mutual friends. And we all would meet somewhere near Como, and then the group would decide where to eat that evening. And then everyone would jump into 3 to five cars, and we would all speed off to the restaurant. I do not know the answer to the above question, but I do remember at the time, Wow, that many young adults squeezing into Fiats, Lancias, etc.
Thank you Giorgio for the memories.
Jackie don't you mean the Inline 6 on the Molinari boat towed the MGB rag-top?Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
The visualization of a small MGB pulling a larger race boat down the highway is comical, for a lack of a better word on my part.
Here is a photo that I saw on the internet, to put it in a perspective scale. The MGB rag-top (4 banger) is towing a 9'8" boat. And the Inline 6 size, next to the right of the MGB is dwarfing the car. When Dick was towing the boat, with the rag-top down, what hat/cap was he wearing if any?
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I included a MGB fastback hardtop in the photo. In the 1970s my cousin Tom had one then. Tom is 6'3" and he, and I would get in the little guy and go tooling around town. It was a fun ride.
He would tow his 12 foot runabout to the bay. And we would go skiing after work and/or on weekends.
It took all of that Johnson 35 (if it really had 35 horses at the prop shaft) to pull me out of the water on a salomon ski. Most of the time, I would just get up on two skies, and then drop one of the water-skies. Easier on the motor.
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Kelly Johnson and probably Elon Musk too, are driven leaders of innovation, and surelyQuote:
Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM
like Mr. K can be labeled Iron Fist too. The employees suffer the association but society
reaps the achievements.
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Now I’m going to have to take this one step at a time ROY.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lake X Kid
Last picture of the MG hardtop is a GT. Usually fitted with an overdrive that worked on all five gears, and reverse. There were various stages of tune where you could up the horsepower in six stages. First step was twin SU’s. Downtown Engineering were the MG And Mini specialists. MG had plenty of power for hauling a boat. A whole 1600cc.
My everyday workhorse when i had the garage was a mini van. 998cc, i hauled the Torrigia up and down the country, with five kids in the back.
TRUE STORY.
On the way to Iver , we had to go through Leatherhead, Mark warned me the Fuzz were coming up behind a mile before they caught up with us. To my amazement they indicated i should stop. This i did , was handed a speeding ticket. Asked them if they were taking the piss. Was told i was exceeding the 60 mph speed limit . Told him he was a liar. Thats when the trouble started.
I appeared in court and was charged with exceeding the speed limit and did i have anything to say. Only a Thousand or more choice words, congratulating the police on their utter stupidity in charging me with something that didnt happen. I tried explainIng to the judge, that never in a million years was there a mini van that could do even forty miles an hour uphill into leatherhead with five kids and all the camping gear for a long weekend , besides towing a 17 foot tunnel boat. Now if the police had fined me for Loitering, i would understand. Judge overruled me and banged the hammer down. 25 quid fine. Told him the policeman was lying through his eye teeth. A, i had seen him coming a country mile away through my children’s eyes. And there wasnt a mini in the land that could do what i was charged with. Judge said i was guilty as charged. I went over to the judge and said, Your Honour, how the hell do you expect me to teach my kids to respect the law and its officers, when i i know, and they know, along with that lying tow rag of a policeman that hes lying. I was fined an extra ten pounds for contempt.
Just trying to tell you its possible to tow a big boat behind a mini,
Jackie: Thought of you when I saw this.
My urologist’s office called the other day and explained that my scheduled appointment would now be done over the phone due to the Coronavirus. One hour before the scheduled teleconference, I was instructed (via email) to administer my own urine test.
Directions :
Simply go outside and pee on the front lawn.
If ants gather: DIABETES.
If you pee on your feet: PROSTATE.
If it smells like a barbecue: CHOLESTEROL.
If you don’t enjoy holding your penis in your hand: LOW TESTOSTERONE.
If your wrist hurts when you shake it: OSTEOARTHRITIS.
If you return to your house without zipping your fly: ALZHEIMER.
...the "practice" of medicine...:smiletest:...:thumbsup:
At our age they get to "practice" on us an awful lot.
...please...that's a very "sore" subject for me at this moment...just had my first(and will be my last) tooth extraction...:mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by 2us70
Tell me about it. My dermatologist seems bent on skinning me and starting over.
I had my very last tooth extracted last year. My sainted mother pegged it right.TEETH. THEYRE A DAMN NUISANCE WHEN THEYRE COMING. A PAIN WHEN THEYRE HERE, AND A DAMN PAINFUL NUISANCE WHEN THEYRE GOING ,! But then she was a wise old biddy.Quote:
Originally Posted by FUJIMO
ROY, there has always been this great divide between our two nations on motors. Now the COLONIALS always believed that muscle was the only way to travel . Preferably with a very agricultural V8 configeration in a big badly handling but comfortable vehicle . Even tractors and Peterbilts were happy with this set up.
Europeans oincluded a MGB fastback hardtop in the photo. In the 1970s my cousin Tom had one then. Tom is 6'3" and he, and I would get in the little guy and go tooling around town. It was a fun ride.
He would tow his 12 foot runabout to the bay. And we would go skiing after work and/or on weekends.
It took all of that Johnson 35 (if it really had 35 horses at the prop shaft) to pull me out of the water on a salomon ski. Most of the time, I would just get up on two skies, and then drop one of the water-skies. Easier on the mot. Well, gasoline was 10 Cents a gallon, so that never came into the equation.
Europeans on the other hand went for smaller cars, smaller and more economical engines , gasoline was always about five times more expensive this side of the pond, so prudence was necessary.
What Americans think is the minimum requirement for hauling a boat is far removed from its Europe counterpart .
Now here is something for you to chew on.
My very first boat was a 12’ Broom Sabre wooden runabout, with an 18hp Evinrude. My father weighed in at around 110 lbs, he would drive the boat, My young brother Nipper would do a wet start on a pairs of CYPRESS GARDENS skis. was a struggle i admit, but dad would lean forward and nipper and me would swing out sideways and eventually get up there. This was late fifties, early sixties.
I have no idea how the last post got so screwed up. Figure it out amongs yourselves.
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Originally Posted by Lake X Kid
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Caddimacdee was the inspiration behind this one.
Jackie's response:
ROY, there has always been this great divide between our two nations on motors. Now the COLONIALS always believed that muscle was the only way to travel . Preferably with a very agricultural V8 configeration in a big badly handling but comfortable vehicle . Even tractors and Peterbilts were happy with this set up.
Europeans includeding a MGB fastback hardtop in the photo.
Roy's post:
In the 1970s my cousin Tom had one then. Tom is 6'3" and he, and I would get in the little guy and go tooling around town. It was a fun ride.
He would tow his 12 foot runabout to the bay. And we would go skiing after work and/or on weekends.
It took all of that Johnson 35 (if it really had 35 horses at the prop shaft) to pull me out of the water on a salomon ski. Most of the time, I would just get up on two skies, and then drop one of the water-skies. Easier on the motor.
Jackie's response:
Well, gasoline was 10 Cents a gallon, so that never came into the equation.
Europeans on the other hand went for smaller cars, smaller and more economical engines , gasoline was always about five times more expensive this side of the pond, so prudence was necessary.
What Americans think is the minimum requirement for hauling a boat is far removed from its Europe counterpart .
Now here is something for you to chew on.
My very first boat was a 12’ Broom Sabre wooden runabout, with an 18hp Evinrude. My father weighed in at around 110 lbs, he would drive the boat, My young brother Nipper would do a wet start on a pairs of CYPRESS GARDENS skis. was a struggle i admit, but dad would lean forward and nipper and me would swing out sideways and eventually get up there. This was late fifties, early sixties.
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Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Now you cleared that up beautifully ROY.
There are still people in this world with a modicum of common sense and understanding! Thank you.
I read with sadness today that the contents of the EVINRUDE facility in Stuart Florida Was going under the hammer on the 21st November .
Ironic that my son, three of my grandchildren , three of my great grandchildren actually live and work in Stuart.
My eldest grand daughter Louise and her husband Gary ( RATBAG) STRAY live in Stuart also, They are moving the GIECO operation up from Jupiter to new premises also in Stuart.
How times have changed. From being part of the mighty OMC organisation, to total obscurity in just a few decades .
I take no joy in the fact that Evinrude has descended into obscurity and into the annals of American history.
I hope someone puts a monument up somewhere to commemorate the fact that Ole Evinrude was here!
Sorry to have to ask there RJ but what was the doctor's prognosis? Seeing I got an appointment coming up in the near future............Quote:
Originally Posted by Rotary John
All of the above.Quote:
Originally Posted by GrewuponLakeX
Stopped going to the doctors since the pandemic outbreak. (Damned surgeries are mostly closed anyway). They only do what the bloody politicians tell em to do. Seems like theyre all on a fully paid holiday at home . Most of em are now Horticultural Specialists.
I do dribble more than i used to.
Get up twice a night to piss.
Stand in the middle of the shop wondering what the hell i was doing a moment ago.
Get cramps in the middle of the night for no reason .
Definitely more skid marks my side of the bed these days.
Appetite is not the same as it was last year . (Except Mexican) .
Last week i decided im not running any more. its quicker to walk. then i dont have to stop and rest..
More folk piss me right off than before.
Apart from that , not much has changed , im good to go . But not with the dickhead with the hoodie and scythe .
...wife had leg cramps at night sleeping. takes 500 mg. of magnesium with water just before going to bed every nite. pain comepletely gone after a few days, forever.
Will check to see if magnesium is compatible with my medication Fuji. I take ten pills a day and rattle when i walk !Quote:
Originally Posted by FUJIMO
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how about giving this to the old firm of hering/ molinari ? Just asking,
...Unique piece there Jack...:thumbsup:...https://www.screamandfly.com/attachm...4&d=1603201176
MOT day for the trusty Lexus. It’s chucking it down , 8am appointment . Funny how the years whistle by. Specially when theres a bill comes with it.
House sale fell through yet again . Im supposed to just sit here and say nothing. I know moaning and groaning and yelling at four walls doesn’t achieve anything——- but it makes me feel a hell of a lot better!
Im getting withdrawal symptoms, i need to see an old fart or two again, even Seebold would do,
Just hope the March meeting at Tavares is on, believe me there wont be as many of the old bastards turn up for the next one as there was at the last one!
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We even have these illogical, impractical pieces of kit over here. Took the Lexus in for its annual MOT , (which it passed with flying colours) and there it was. awaiting its annual MOT. a ridiculous umpteen foot long 18 seater Hummer , fit for WHAT? Like i said many times before, common sense has gone completely out the window. Can you imagine what the outcome would be if one of these things was involved in a any sort of motorway accident ,! 18 people would only have a very slim chance of survival. Or am i just being an OLD FART.
Ye Gods...nobody is a bigger misery than me, but seeing this chariot even puts a smile on my face....It's hardly going to be used as a communal minibus or for ferrying the lads from the Lodge to Ascot Raceday..It's for the young'uns to promenade about in on their special days, it's for "having fun".....I can remember a Winnabago towing a raceboat flying past me on the M4 one time...written on the side was "racing for fun"...I wonder what ever happened to that fella?..... There must be some serious steelwork under that bodywork to keep from bending though..a work of art in it's own way.....:rolleyes:
Therein lies the problem Phil, FUN, i can still remember that ! but now that im old, feak and weeble Common sense tells me that stretched Hummer is a death trap for a score of youngsters on a given occasion.Quote:
Originally Posted by ron54
WORK OF ART!??? You’re having a laugh Phil. Pile of Dog sh-t or a cow clap is art to some idiots .
A hummer in any shape or form is just a slab of dull uninteresting metal, pretty much like a manhole cover or a frying pan.
That was no “ WINNIBAGO” That passed you on the motorway, that was the most beautiful GMC six wheeler RV motorhome ever built by any manufacturer anywhere in the world . 100 mph and proud of it.
and here all this time, i thought a hummer was nothing more than a glorified JEEP!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Yair..GMC of course I ought to remember...We had the guided tour the following day. By "work of art" I was referring to the work that had to be done to the underneath to achieve the overall effect...y'know a bit like Jayne Mansfields bra's...
Jesus wept Phil, you cant even get the bird right! Jayne bloody Mansfield——- Was MARYLYN you dipstick. Or was it Jane Russell? when she did the OUTLAW for Howard Hughes ?Quote:
Originally Posted by ron54
Lot of water has gone under the bridge since then, Ladies have come and gone, Friends have left for ever . Art has come a long way, just wish someone had taken the time to tell me ART ISNT JUST PAINTING when i was a teenager, life might have taken a different direction. Was turned 75 before i realised there are many forms of art, although most of it starts with the female form and old Mother Nature .
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They haven’t made Knockers like that since the sixties Phil.
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Thats the last GMC 6 wheeler i ever had. Still think its the best RV ever made.
Even today, the 2 million dollar RV’s. Dont have anything that that one didnt have .
In any drag race, i would bet the farm against all comers.