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We are thinking about going to the boat show. we haven't been to the Stadium since the last time we raced there in 1976. In my bicycle racing years I would train on the causeway bridge and ride by the Stadium. It was sad to see it covered in graffiti.
Spoke too soon. Over $100 for a visit to the Stadium isn't worth it.
Yes its a pricey event. A beer is like $10.00 -12.00
The old saying.."the best boat is your friends boat" works perfect for me..:)
Nice and clean G2 rigging.
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This is interesting. Dillard’s Moore hull with my Swedish friend Pierre Lundin at the wheel in 2016. This is a boat built to UIM specifications cockpit safety and crash boxes. Much safer than today's APBA/Champ Boat rules
UIM F2 – The Yanks are coming!
https://www.powerboatracingworld.com...ks-are-coming/
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The Yacht part of Miami Boat Show at Collins Ave is really crazy. People from all over the world is buying big ships..Quote:
Originally Posted by 2us70
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Brent Dillard set to join the UIM F2 World Championship series in Europe for 2018
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Our trip to Leon, Spain for the first F1-V8 and F-3 race in 1982 is a memory for life.
Its going to take me a few posts to tell the full story.
My brother Lennart and I got the Mazda purpose built for F3 racing pick up ready in Sweden with spare powerheads and gear cases. The Methanol tanks on the bed was filled up.
The #1 red Burgess/AKAI/Evinrude I used 1981 was going to be replaced for the Bristol race 1982.
I just got the pictures from Lennart and are not sure what I am doing in the first picture.
Maybe a fuel tank for the pick up at the bed also.
I also include a note from Anna O'Brien
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One of many reasons for this Mazda "boat race pickup" was in Europe you can only drive 55MPH with a trailer behind a car.
This set up was much better no speed limit in Germany so we always drove WOT..The top speed fully loaded with the F3 boat was 90/95 MPH or more down hill..You got to pay attention in the Autobahn turns/curves.
This could cut down a trip from Stockholm to Italy with one day.
I have a friend w/a shirt that says: "Im the friend w/the boat" :)Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
QUOTE=lars strom;3020792]Nice and clean G2 rigging.
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Wow. Thats impressive!
That is way cool! Cant believe that lil booger did 95 w/the boat on top and the bed loaded!Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
Must of had the V-6??
I bought one new in '84 w/a 4 banger and loved it!
Paid $4995 for it, put 230k on it and sold it 8 yrs later for $2500.
Cant beat that. Great lil truck.
What we did not know was the mountains in North West Spain is absolutely brutal and we finally got to the port city of Santander. Most people from the UK arrived there and we took the some road to Leon..Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
The road between Santander and Leon is not on this map but wow..my Mazda engine did not make it over the mountains..we stopped to check everything and kept going a little bit more but a hole in the piston made it impossible to get all the way to the top...!!
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Save by Team John Player Special #12 Tom Percival came to the rescue and pulled us to the top of the mega mountains with the JPS Ranch Rover.
Here we are on the hook..
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That explains the very substantial front tie down on the boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
There are plenty of trailer failure stories. Wally Quallman lost a wheel bearing at speed and wrote off a nice twin engine v-bottom boat as I recall.
Great adventure Lars!!!! Makes your racing history that much more exciting. Thanks for all your time to share with us!
Gary
What a great story Lars.
Have many similar but none that good ��
Thanks,Quote:
Originally Posted by Instigator
Well..it's more to this racing in Leon, Spain story..
Plenty of bad forest fires in the mountains, very close to the road at some places. Pretty scary.
I ask my brother Lennart when we where riding in the pickup..What is Spain famous for more than tourists..
Bad cooking oil was his response..sh*t..now I lost my appetite..
Thousands of people died in Spain from bad cooking oil in the beginning of the nineties..
Next is how we got back home to Sweden..and the boat race
Here is some reading about the toxic cooking oil killing people like flies in Spain..
Trial in Spain on Toxic Cooking Oil Ends in Uproar
MADRID, May 20— Amid angry protests from a crowded courtroom, three Spanish judges dismissed murder charges today against distributors of an adulterated cooking oil that was found to have caused almost 700 deaths since a mass poisoning disaster occurred here in 1981.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/21/wo...in-uproar.html
Well..there was no 500 HP Mercury V8 outboard, or a more powerful Verado 400R introduced at the Miami Boat Show yesterday.
Years of speculations about this came to an end. Instead a boxy looking Merc 3.4 liter V6 was all we got.
I am disappointed and suddenly the cleanest EPA approved outboard ever...the 3.4 liter V6 Evinrude G2 is looking extremely good..
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What we have here is a race to see who can produce the ugliest outboard motor.
Man, I agree! I haven't liked the looks of the new motas at all. For the last few years they have looked like someone painted a boiled shrimp and hung a gearcase on the tail.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2us70
F1-V8 racing in Den Bosch, Holland May 1984. Evinrude 3.5 liter 2 stroke, looper.
Lars Strom
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See how the profile of the motor cowling follows the curve of the rear top moulding.......pure Jane Mansfield... well y'all know what I mean........
Looks like the new Merc is copying the G-2 that the Merc guys have picked on for the last 2 yrs 😎
Yes Instigator and the new Mercury is also a 3.4 liter V6. Same as the G2..Quote:
Originally Posted by Instigator
Another interesting picture..a group of people from the Yamaha factory is checking out the G2 joy stick option..!!
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Evinrude G2 at the Miami Marine Stadium boat show.
The cleanest EPA approved outboard ever.
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Where is the ice maker on that thing?
The ice maker is built in here..:)
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More MEGA pictures..
(Make Evinrude Great Again) from Miami Boat Show.
Evinrude E-TEC G2 V6 3.4 liter.
The cleanest EPA approved outboard ever.
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Looks to me like Merc stole the design from this.Quote:
Originally Posted by lars strom
I think Ted Williams motors has a case for patent infringement.
Their last new design looked like two shrimp engaging in oral sex.
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Ha Ha! That's a Raymond Loewy design for Scott McCullochQuote:
Originally Posted by Instigator
Was pretty sure it started as a MucCulloch.Quote:
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Scout Boats.Quote:
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Picture by Lars Strom
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Scout builds a gorgeous boat.Quote:
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hello all members tank you for the photos f1 v8, evinrude had a chance to return in f1 h2o ? i can't read the video f1 1986 Pittsburgh Facebook, i don't understand is it possible to put here in the forum please ? for mr strom, i found this photo 1983 24h rouen, you're sponsor was here with two boats you not run in rouen?Attachment 399973mikael
Today it’s the big one.. The great American race Daytona 500.
I am not going to pick one winner but three possible winners in no order..
#4 Kevin Harvick, #9 Chase Elliott or #2 Brad Keselowski.
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