Attachment 486892Back to BOATS???Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Mark---and Roger showed quite an interest in boats----#66
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Attachment 486892Back to BOATS???Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Mark---and Roger showed quite an interest in boats----#66
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Any more the Penske and co in boats?
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Originally Posted by powerabout
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Boats---and CARS---Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Mark started a company--called it RaceMark
Rebuilt Camaros for IROC---and a street Camaro for a lot of boat racers and their girlfriends------
Built this one for Doc Magoon---
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where's the girlfriend photos?
It can’t be just me ———- top piccy looks more like PRUETT to me ???????Quote:
Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM
either that —- or his daddy put himself about BIT ??????
Anyone know who the guy on the right is (white belt)? When Penske started, it was him, Donahue and Jerry Simison. It doesn't look like Jerry on the right, looks more like Jimmy Kubasta.Quote:
Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM
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Originally Posted by willabee
ALMOST POSITIVE----Jerry Simison???
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Originally Posted by jackiewilson
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...could very well be bob saccenti in the center. probably the night before the race, as all three are dressed up better than they usually are/were...https://www.screamandfly.com/attachm...3&d=1620933259
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Originally Posted by FUJIMO
The King and the Captain
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...right you are gene...it IS the captian...https://d39a3h63xew422.cloudfront.ne...-2000x2352.jpg
That doesn't look like Jerry, but I don't know who it is?Quote:
Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM
...the fella at the far right in the photo, with the captain(roger) & don...is Jay Signore, who worked for roger. they are going over the details of the brand new sunoco dx(later named cam 2) cigarette 40 at delivery time. Jay was the guy that headed up roger's special projects, like starting up the IROC series, and making the street versions of the those camaro's, that don & doc magoon & others bought from them for fun...https://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/...e40-small-.jpg
When a president recognizes and associates with a race driver, it gives the motor-sport some gravitas.
Like Trump giving Penske the medal.
and ... 43 at the White House.
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Very cool..
Jackie
Did you ever turn a lap in a car at a race track?
Nope, i never did.Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Did do a heat in the rain at BRANDS HATCH on a PORCUPINE MATCHLESS —- owner couldn’t handle it in the wet, most of the other riders fell off. Race was won by a kid called JOHN SURTEES —-he was riding an RDG SPECIAL !!!! HE LAPPED ME.
Ive been waiting for WILLABEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Year ago , he would have jumped in with both feet !!!!!!!!
Might be something he ate .
"He lapped me" ..... I know about Sanders in a boat, but am having a little difficulty swallowing Surtees on two wheels. Next you'll probably claim Fangio with four wheels.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
However, I suppose there's nothing wrong with a novice getting lapped by the best :D
‘Twas a rainy day at Brands Hatch. Probably thirty riders in the novice “run what you brung” event. All sorts of bikes , even the odd race bike —— Pete Tester had swopped his 7R AJS for a PORCUPINE . Pete dropped it on the flooded track and was cross at the world . Told him he was riding it like a big girls blouse—- was one of those “IF YOU THINK YOU CAN DO BETTER MOMENTS” ——- me, being twenty years old and the dingleberry i can be sometimes, took it on. Was a race of attrition , carnage , crosswinds and hailstones, with a bit of sleet throw in for good measure .
Just before the finish, a 250 RDG SPECIAL howled past me and took the flag —— was actually the very first time i had even heard of JOHN SURTEES . He was still a teenager. I never ever again entered a motorcycle competition of any kind .
Car racing was something you only read about —— although seeing as how WILLABEE mentioned it ——— Fangio would visit his friend BILL SHORT . He owned Southwater garage before i did . Bill was BENTLEY race team manager just before the Second World War . Yes, i knew him quite well for many years.
NAH-NAH-NA-NA-NAH ?????????????
...times two. everyone loves petty...Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
WOW, PRESIDENTS,——LEGENDS——-Never thought i would see all those famous folk on the TRICKS site. You just never can tell !!!
Not a lot to inflame the imagination this morning. Pubs and restaurants open again—- flights to Portugal—- but that’s about it. Jews and the Arabs at each other again /????? No surprise there , they’ve been doing it since Pontious was a Pilate .
This old world keeps on turning around ?????? Seems to me like “spinning” would be a better turn of phrase .
Biden Bashing has replaced Trump Bashing ——— whilst Boris Bashing is on the up— ????? It’s a funny old world !!!!!!!!!!!
SHORTAGE OF A CHOCOLATE FLAKE IN ICE CREAM AS HEADLINES JUST ABOUT SUMS IT UP????????
...the shortage of chocolate flakes is the only one i would be pissed about. thats terrible news. just terrible. my condolences jack.;)
SOMETIMES LIFE CAN BE AN ABSOLUTE BITCH FUGI.Quote:
Originally Posted by FUJIMO
I contribute to a website called “STOCKS”———. One of the lead stories was the shortage of flakes ——-even before ——-APPLE—NIKI and STARBUCKS !!!!!!!!!!
Just shows the state of the union !!!!!
Went to an up market restaurant for lunch yesterday. Mainly because i could, wished i hadn’t bothered . Full house of over 100 packed into a pseudo medieval barn ,— eating overpriced - very ordinary —- piss poorly prepared fodder —- took out the hearing aid in the end . Sounded like a murder of crows or a murmuration of starlings coming from the assembled diners !!! Add to that the torrential downpour , both coming and going —— wasn’t exactly thrilled with the days efforts!!!
Funnily enough i have gotten used to home cooking—- and at a tenth of the price .
So, we are out of lockdown—— jolly hockey sticks !!!
Can i fly to the states —-NO—— Portugal is about the only destination —- but watch out for the quarantine rules and isolation AND COST. Upon returning.
Things ain’t wot they used ter be !!!!!!!
Think i might just stay home and straighten up SUPERSHED in the immediate future >
My favorite uncle Lee---and his brother Troy Wollard---were world famous boat builders---Quote:
Originally Posted by jackiewilson
Half a lifetime ago--I wanted to be a world famous RACE CAR driver!!
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Wollard? any relation to my old friend Sam Wollard?
GENE. ———- In the game of life —you Just never know what hand you will be dealt —- its what you do WITH the chance that decides who and what you become. [ me myself] .
All i ever wanted as a teenager was a motorbike —— was hauled off my first ride by my father , who just happened to be driving by in the family van, smartly belted round the ears until they rang and threatened with a fate worse than death if he ever caught me riding a motorcycle again until i was sixteen !!!!!!!!!!
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VERY similar to my first motorbike —— except mine had a STEIB Bullet sidecar—- bought it in 1947 . Guy wanted £45. For the lot. In the end i gave him my WHITTAKER AND MAPPLEBECK racing bike and £15 .told him to keep the sidecar !!!! Still think he got the deal of a lifetime ??????
Guy had the fish and chip shop at the bottom of girlington road . We used to get chucked out of the YOUTH CLUB at 10-00pm —- then it was either the pie and pea shop —- or fish and chips. Bike was always parked outside . Memories ????????
...thought maybe you'd know something about this chap jackie? its one of them there sterndrive tunnel concoctions. his name is dino piacci. has a lot of dem tubes stick'n out...;)...https://yachtandpowerboats.it/wp-con...ti_seconda.jpg
...seems to be a mercury guy, so he can't be all that bad...https://yachtandpowerboats.it/wp-con...13/09/art..jpg
Eric and Jackie - different sides of the same Quid.Quote:
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https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...e2&oe=60CE6742 Eric Clapton feared he would 'never play again' after 'disastrous' time with vaccine
“About six weeks later I was offered and took the second AZ (AstraZeneca) shot, but with a little more knowledge of the dangers,” he continued. “Needless to say the reactions were disastrous, my hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning, and pretty much useless for two weeks, I feared I would never play again, (I suffer with peripheral neuropathy and should never have gone near the needle.) But the propaganda said the vaccine was safe for everyone....” said Eric Clapton
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Its also got a lot later sterndrive than the HI-PERF picture—Quote:
Originally Posted by FUJIMO
Boat looks like an old KT design——- LEMBSKE’S SEEBOLD “SASQUATCH” is a lot shallower than the 39 boat. Boat looks to have an old rocker style , but that could optical. [in my humble opinion].
Afraid i haven’t come across that particular craft before——- DINO PIACCI sounds very Italian to me , if i hadn’t heard the name , i might have thought the rig was AUSTRALIAN——they are very good at stitching hot motors into tunnels. [and vee bottoms].
Wettest AND coldest May since records began. With another week still to go.
still chucking it down. Climate change ????? I have my doubts—— just old Mother Nature having a laugh !!!! Now SHE. Is the most contentious old biddy you could ever hope to meet .
Gene is your Front Right Tire on your Midget (I think that is what that class is called) larger/wider than the inside front tire?
It looks to be almost the same size as the back tire (or its an optical illusion for me).
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A lot of circuit boat race courses are left-hand turns.
So why does not some tunnel boats have a wider starboard sponson (then the port-side sponson)?
It would help keep the boat from leaning less in a left-handed turn, and probably less prone to barrel-rolling.
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Gene why did you chose Boating Racing over Car Racing?
Were you influenced by your uncle Lee and his brother Troy?
Also in the race car photo, the tall lever mounted on your left side what is that used for?
Braking or engaging the transmission, or is it to adjust the chassis roll-bar, those are some of my novice wild guesses.
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Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM