Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

[Instigator]

QUOTE=lars strom;3020792]Nice and clean G2 rigging.

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Wow. Thats impressive!

[Instigator]

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.

That is way cool! Cant believe that lil booger did 95 w/the boat on top and the bed loaded!
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.

[lars strom]

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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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..
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...!!

[lars strom]

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..

[2us70]

That explains the very substantial front tie down on the boat.

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.

[2us70]

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.

[olboatman]

Great adventure Lars!!!! Makes your racing history that much more exciting. Thanks for all your time to share with us!
Gary

[Instigator]

What a great story Lars.

Have many similar but none that good ��

[lars strom]

What a great story Lars.

Thanks,

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

[lars strom]

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

[lars strom]

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..

[2us70]

What we have here is a race to see who can produce the ugliest outboard motor.

[Mugs914]

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.

[lars strom]

F1-V8 racing in Den Bosch, Holland May 1984. Evinrude 3.5 liter 2 stroke, looper.
Lars Strom

[ron54]

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........