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09-10-2013, 04:27 PM #9120 Foot Switzer Wing 2 X S3000 (Dust'n the Wind II)
!6 foot Wood Eltro Vee (2X Merc 1500's) (Dust'n the Wind IV)
15 foot Powercat 15C (2 X Merc 1500) (Dust'n the Wind III)
(Single engine boats are lacking something)
15’ Wooden Switzer Shooting Star...
16 foot Lee Craft Merc S 3000-(Gold Dust II)
(The exception proves the rule)
Obsolete and Proud of it
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09-10-2013, 07:00 PM #927000 RPM
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09-10-2013, 08:04 PM #93
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09-11-2013, 06:13 PM #947000 RPM
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I might be dreaming but it seems to me that one of the 18' wings was rigged with the cockpit in the middle of the wing section. I think I saw it at the 9 hour in 1966.
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09-11-2013, 06:31 PM #957000 RPM
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In a single driver wing (no passenger), did they put ballast in the other seat?
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09-11-2013, 07:26 PM #96
We did have one center cockpit Switzer wing at Lake X. Jim Harkins was assigned to it for Miami 9Hr. I don't remember if it actually ran in race. It was slower than clean wing side seats.I firmly believe that center cockpit disturbed airflow over wingtop thus reducing lift. Plus it looked funky. i think it had brown swoop on sides. - Steve Sirois
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09-12-2013, 08:53 AM #977000 RPM
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09-12-2013, 09:28 AM #98Member
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I was thinking there was a wing Owned and driven by Don Edmondson out of Elisnore Ca. anyone remember what or where this boat came from.
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09-12-2013, 11:03 AM #99
Don and Ed Steward had two wings both a 18' and 20' footer. The 18' was bought directly from Kenny Kitson which was supposed to be the Miss Diablo III. It is now restored.
They had a 20 foot wing that Dave and Bob Switzer first raced at Parker or Havasu....don't recall which. Dave was driving somehow a boat flipped in front of him punching a hole in the boat....it sunk in front of the judges stand with the pickels sticking out of the water. Ed Steward and Don Edmondson tried to buy it at that time, but couldn't because they were not Mercury dealers. Bob Massey did buy it. He tested it and did not like they way it handled because of the known porpoising issues the 20's had. Bob soon after sold it to Ed and Don having never raced it. They modified the bottom which Don claimed to have solved the porpoising issue and he really enjoyed racing it. It came in third overall at Parker in 1969 and was last run with triples. Ironically Don never liked the way the 18 foot wing they had handled.
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10-09-2013, 01:31 PM #1007000 RPM
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"It was last raced at Parker in 1975 as a tribute to Bob Massey who had passed away years earlier. It was a dinosaur by then and probably the last wing ever to be raced. One eye witness said it was actually doing pretty good until a powerhead let go and that was that."
At the 12:20 mark is footage of the T140 Switzer running at Parker in 75.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkLjBAp2Ghc
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11-27-2013, 07:35 PM #101
[QUOTE=GENE LANHAM;2525106] gene, if this is the race & the photo location i'm remembering...this is at the "new" ramp across 79 th st. from pelican harbor. he bent a prop a few laps in & still won. i was a kid on a bicycle back then, ride down from 105 st, west side of the bay & watch a lot of races at pelican harbor. cool way for a kid to grow up, ronnie russell, alan rebel, & ricky lingheimer all lived down the canal from me.
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11-28-2013, 06:27 AM #102
look at them purty PIPES on those motors...
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11-28-2013, 01:07 PM #1037000 RPM
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11-28-2013, 01:34 PM #1047000 RPM
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11-28-2013, 05:52 PM #105
Thanks Gene- after all the research , talking to quite a few folks and some information from Mercury, I am quite confident this is one of his engines.