[QUOTE=GENE LANHAM;2564182] Do you still have that truck?
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Here's one for sale!! ...I just checked the price, and it seems too good to be true, but who knows?
https://boats-from-usa.com/not-specified/switzer-134418
Sold years ago
Ohhh, sorry about that. I didn't see any indication of that on the page, would not have posted it if I had.
There's NOTHING like the sound of a "Wing" with dual-staked Mercs running at high RPMs across a lake. Used to see them run on Lake Winnebago back in the day, and there's nothing I've ever heard that sounds as awesome as the high-pitched whine, especially when they break free for a moment and wind way up!
Boats today are too quiet, but I was a kid from the 70's growing up around hp outboards and inboards. Thanks for keeping the memory alive with threads like this one!
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Parker testing in 1975. The video referenced above.
https://youtu.be/QkLjBAp2Ghc
Roy--this pic and article showed up on WILLABEE'S site--recently
I had never seen it--over 50 years ago--
Dick Williams and I had just returned from Havasu- we had just run in Arizona the previous Sunday!!!
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Gene here is your old beloved — Red Bird.
Ted Boyd piloting her at the Tavares vintage race 2019.
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