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i would love to see some of these boats show up at the vintage meets, at clayton or even mt. dora. i wonder how many still exist? im almost done with my t2x project. will put it on my ally untill i find a tunnel to put it on. will be at the lake dora show in march with ally, hopefully with twister motor, if not then with 1500xs like last year.:thumbsup:
Burt Ross's "Tird Bird" at the 1972 Miami Boat Show. Burt was the OMC sales rep for Florida. He and Jack Leek were brothers-in-law...Their wives were sisters.
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Jeff Titus...looks like Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland, FL. Its dated 7-4-1974. "Taken by Mary Gagen".
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Hey Jim, remember this?
I wish this one was in better shape. This is the start of the 250 mile (I think) marathon. That is Jeff out front in the Scotti from the previous pic. He didn't stay there long. He had tested with and was prepared to run his sprint gearcase. Leek suggested (emphatically) that he couldn't compete with the extra fuel weight and should change to the larger case like all of the other OMC entries. The sprint case was 10mph faster, but he changed it. The first black motor passed him on the back stretch, and one more every few laps. He was the first OMC at the finish, but well back overall. I can count 31 boats in the picture!
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This pic was taken in 1974. Driver of the boat was Bobby Britt.
Is this a Seebold or a Molinari? The square bow Seebold and Molinari boats looked so much alike around that time I am not sure.
Really great stuff guys!
seebold -------------nice to see your all cooking with gas againQuote:
Originally Posted by mark poole modvp
Was Seebold building boats in 1974?Quote:
Originally Posted by jackie wilson
Pretty sure he was building boats by then because in 1975 he had progressed to the picklefork design like the one that Bob Herring dominated the Parker race with that year. Come to think of it, the red boat shown above (no. 101) looks a lot like Old Blue.
Jackie:Quote:
Originally Posted by jackie wilson
If it's a Seebold why does it have Molinari cowlings? The Seebolds had a different (higher, more square) cowl set. It may be neither because I can't see the telltale up sweep in the rear outer deck corners that all Molinari's had. Of course they could be flattened in this picture since they were only about 3/4" channels over the last 18 inches of the deck.....
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Jim, the pic of the Old Reliable was taken in Douglas Georgia at a lake called Holiday Beach. I also saw the boat raced in Hazelhurst Ga. This must have been 1979 or 80.
Ok, here are two more pics of the red and white boat no.101. One pic is from the rear and one at the transom from the side. In the rear view you can see that it does have the channels at the rear sides of the deck. Hope this helps.
To me, the #101 looks a lot like Old Blue IV, shown below at Memphis in 1973. I think the #101 is a Molinari.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Poole ModVP
I just can't get my memory banks to kick in on a full nose Seebold. He ran a pickle fork Molinari at Havasu in 72, so he knows they are superior to the full nose hulls. He and Cees won Parker in 74 in a Molinari and they ran a sister boat to the Molinari/T3 combo that Hering & Renato won Parker with in 75. So that means we are at the beginning of 75 and he is still driving Molinari's. Seems like he'd be driving a boat of his own construction if he had one.
I think that in 75 a plan was put together with Merc for Billy & Cees to build boats. Billy's for the US races and Cees to supply hulls for the European events. The boats were to be identical and those two guys were to share 100% of the info required to build them and set them up. The plan launched in that fashion, but something happened that put the builders on their own.
Yep, I would say that the no. 190 in the middle pic and the no. 101 are sister ships and both with T2X's. I wonder if Seebold would remember him since he had such top notch equipment for a local southeast racer. We didn't see to many factory looking rigs around here back then!