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01-25-2013, 03:59 PM #16
Love reading all your sharing thoughts about this great time in racing! Thanks for sharing!
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01-25-2013, 04:30 PM #17
Molinari plates .....
I don't know when they started using the pictured plate, but I do know it was on the closed cockpit models until sometime in 1969. That would mean it was used at least from 1966 to mid 1969. It was generally mounted on both sides of the hull in the center of the cockpit area.
The new boats we received for Havasu 1969 no longer carried that plate. The plate was replaced by a preprinted strip of letters that read Scafo Angelo Molinari. This strip was normally applied in the stripe on the rear cowl in front of the whited area used for the drivers number.
The picture of the Merc Team lining up for the Miami 225 in 1970 pretty much tells the story. The #174 is an 18' vintage 1968 and you can see the plate at the heel of Billy Don's right leg. The #998 is a 1970's vintage 16' sprint and the Scafo etc, is visible in front of Sirois's number. Don Clark's #177 is another 1968 18' and appears to have both plate and lettering. That is entirely possible because by then we had strips of the new lettering in the shop in Oshkosh and Don probably liked it and added to his boat. Moving to Downard, another 1968ish 18', you can see the plate in the center of the cockpit. The beautifully restored red boat on post #5 clearly shows the wording on the preprinted strips is "Scafo Angelo Molinari" which means Hull by Angelo Molinari.
In the pic of the Team in 1972, the #251 & #554 were brand new, never raced and they are still sporting the Scafo, etc. The shot of the low cowl rocker is the 1966ish design that carried the plates.Last edited by willabee; 09-19-2014 at 09:05 AM.
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01-25-2013, 07:57 PM #18
Please waffle on ! Gary
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01-25-2013, 08:47 PM #19
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01-25-2013, 08:52 PM #20
Great info.....my tired old eyes didn't make out the emblems in the pictures until you pointed them out. So, from what you are saying the first Molinari's hit the USA in 1966-ish ?? Any idea of how many Mercury bought per year ??? Looking at pictures it seems like they were everywhere. Even back then did the hulls tend to rot quickly ???
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01-25-2013, 09:18 PM #21
here is my dads around 1972-73. he had a different cowling though for some reason, maybe a checkmate??
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01-26-2013, 10:56 AM #22
checkout the 72 Cadillac tow vehicle!!!
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01-26-2013, 11:31 AM #237000 RPM
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I recognise the boat and venue in the 3rd picture of post #17. The picture was shot at the Miami Outboard Club which was where a lot of races were run before the Marine Stadium was built. I am pretty sure the boat is the first Molinari I ever saw and the driver is either Lonnie Todd or Gene Lanaham.
I only got the chance to drive one Molinari, an 18 Glasstron with a J motor. I found it to be one of the sweetest handeling and most comfortable raceboats I ever sat in. I would have lover to run a marathon in one of them.Last edited by 2us70; 01-26-2013 at 11:38 AM.
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Does anyone remember the 18 Molinaris being run with twins?
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Ken Mann of Houston had a 15' open cockpit Moly in 70 that I believe had one of those name plates on it.
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01-27-2013, 10:51 AM #26
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01-27-2013, 11:21 AM #27
very cool read,i did not know volvo was ever in the outboard business period,
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01-27-2013, 11:26 AM #28
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01-27-2013, 11:30 AM #29
i rekon that is where molonari elbows came from. my dad is Jack Staples. he raced this molonari and won the U class championship in Ufala in 73, then raced most of 74 with it. then he got the first hubercotti (bert serra and homer green also won championships i believe with their hubercotti's) and sold his molonari to Bob V. he flipped bad leading ufala in 74 with the hubercotti and other than racing serra's boat one time in okeechobee, that was his last race.
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01-27-2013, 12:54 PM #30
Twister I ....
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