Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

That's what I love about Jackie. If one language doesn't work, he simply makes up another one!

The uk and the US, only separated by the lack of a common language.

Ya GOT TO KEEP Going, Moses BTW is Steverino , Kerten or West ?

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Originally Posted by Vulture27

Ya GOT TO KEEP Going, Moses BTW is Steverino , Kerten or West ?

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Saw Stevie Pinson a couple years back at the old farts fest.
Has to be fifteen years since I saw Kerten ( Abu-Dahbi 19 ??)
Saw Westie driving a 20 ton Steam Roller at a rally down the West Country circa 1996.
DONT GET AROUND MUCH ANY MORE-----good name for a song don't you think ?
Have we met Vulture? I actually know some of your namesakes-----we dine together on a regular basis.

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Originally Posted by T2x

That's what I love about Jackie. If one language doesn't work, he simply makes up another one!

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C'mon Rich------isn't that exactly what Webster did------there's stuff in there that cannot be found in ----The Concise Oxford------I'm just a dedicated follower of fashion.

It's 11pm or 2300 hrs if your prissy !!!
Her who is usually stretched out alongside has left me on my own for the night, gone to see her grand kids perform in a concert tonight and is doing a sleepover thing, so I can clatter away on my silent keyboard (which Jilly swears blind she can hear clicking) to my hearts content.
So ----if I can stay awake and anybody wants to discuss anything----please speak now or forever hold your peace or is it piece as John Wayne used to say-------Fill your hand you S O B.

Westie still re=building those things?

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Originally Posted by Vulture27

Westie still re=building those things?

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At something around £100,000 apiece wouldn't you ?

Picture this: TREX and jackiewilson in conversation!!!

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Originally Posted by stokernick

Picture this: TREX and jackiewilson in conversation!!!

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Met quite a few of them, but not all of ' em at some time ---Elton John, Johnny Cash, The Bee Gees,Leo Sayer, even met Peter and Karen Carpenter at The English Pub in Havasu---very nice people they were too---.
Looking back on my life, though most of it was boat racing, I did have a social life that ran alongside boats, and raised five kids along the way, eleven grand kids and eight great grand kids----four Molinaris, Four Schultzes, five Hodges, half a dozen Bristols, six Blue-fins, ---------it wasn't ALL bad.
Late now-----the sheets grabbed me this morning, turned over twice and went back to sleep, eight o clock----as my sainted mother used to say----you must have needed the sleep. Trouble is ---folk die in bed, I don't mind as long as there's a hot momma next to me, last night there wasn't.

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Originally Posted by jackiewilson

Don was a fun guy to be around, smoked 40 ciggies a day and a cup of tea with every one of them , laced with 3spoons of sugar and a goodly dollop of tinned milk. We always carried the " makings" wherever we were in the world. Flew into Chicago, hired a car, found a Walmart and bought a gas bottle, kettle, tea, sugar, and carnation , ( couldn't buy Ideal in Wisconsin) plastic container, cups ,spoons, we would have bought a cow but it was only a compact. Drove all the way to Havasu and collected 2citations.----but we were never dry.
Don would have been well over 90 by now. He was fine until the accident in Amsterdam, where he tore his hip out, took him a long time to get over that.
Don had a Ford transit camper van, Bob Spalding, me and don towed the little SHultze down to The Idroscala in Milan and raced in the 6 hours----think that was Bobs first ever race abroad.
Renato never built a 18' again, the 17' Shultze with a1000 BP was quicker than his 1250 BP by 5mph. Even Dieter had an 18' and 1250. We were quicker than him too, he told us we were mad to race the little boat----he had designed it for the 65 hp Koenig,
We had been testing props at Rolla's for 5 days and gone from 65 mph to 78, we could run full fuel load and a steady prop at 72. There was not a boat there that could match it for speed.
Her next to me is zzzzzzzzing better shut down for the night, bye, j.

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That small Shultze BOB CAT brings back old memories for me Jackie and tell me did Don ever drive it.Bob Spalding raced it at Fairford after the race he threw me the keys and said try it out see what you think it ran 72mph down the back straight and most V hulls were doing under 68 mph at that time with 1250SBP`s`well as you know Jackie how different those boats were to drive it was a whole new learning curve for me.You also supplied Mike Rose with a little red Shultze Cat Sex Kitten he wrecked it in the 1969 Chasewater 500 mile race and I bought it off him fixed it and ran it at the next Chasewater race with a 1250sbp engine it was a handful so I sold it to George Vernon from Carr Mill.You mentioned the 18ft Molinaris well when Bob raced that little Shultze in the 1969 Paris 6hr race with Mike Rose as co driver I bet he wished he had been in the Molinari he told me he was down to 50mph at times I was there watching and I think they did well to bring it home.Attachment 299805Attachment 299803Attachment 299804

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That small Shultze BOB CAT brings back old memories for me Jackie and tell me did Don ever drive it.Bob Spalding raced it at Fairford after the race he threw me the keys and said try it out see what you think it ran 72mph down the back straight and most V hulls were doing under 68 mph at that time with 1250SBP`s`well as you know Jackie how different those boats were to drive it was a whole new learning curve for me.You also supplied Mike Rose with a little red Shultze Cat Sex Kitten he wrecked it in the 1969 Chasewater 500 mile race and I bought it off him fixed it and ran it at the next Chasewater race with a 1250sbp engine it was a handful so I sold it to George Vernon from Carr Mill.You mentioned the 18ft Molinaris well when Bob raced that little Shultze in the 1969 Paris 6hr race with Mike Rose as co driver I bet he wished he had been in the Molinari he told me he was down to 50mph at times I was there watching and I think they did well to bring it home.Attachment 299805Attachment 299803Attachment 299804

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First supplied Mike Rose with a tiny 14' four seater Torrigia cat ----next it was a 18' Schultze (a red one) went to the Champion of Champions at Fairford with my little 16' with the 1000 BP and topped the leader board on the Saturday.
Mike offered me so much money to part ex. his rig with mine, I couldn't turn it down, he won on the sunday and I came second..
To this day I can't remember if I could have won the race or not, but you don't relieve a man of a bag of gold without giving him something in return. I just remember it as one of my better deals. Turned out Mike had been using his clients money to fund his boating habit------he was an insurance broker!!!

Don was never comfortable driving tunnel boats----having said that he did win one of the roughest races ever on the river Thames with the yellow Molinari. He was one of the all time great V bottom drivers specially in the long capital Marathons ie.,, Amsterdam, Paris, Stockholm, Milan, and he was a great ambassador, everyone loved Don Ross.

Hi Jackie

You can find some great footage of Don Ross winning the 1969 Thames race if you go to British Pathe news website, click on sports and leisure type
Don Ross into the search box .

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Hi Jackie

You can find some great footage of Don Ross winning the 1969 Thames race if you go to British Pathe news website, click on sports and leisure type
Don Ross into the search box .

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Hiy Rob, How's Jim holding up these days. Many years since I saw that footage of the Thames race. Last time I ever drove a Vee bottom. Bought it off. Julian Bailey two days previously, hoped I could sell it after the race, boat was a 16' Levi, thought it was a U-boat it dived so many times, remember it was called "Phaedra ".