Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

[jackiewilson]

Still a work in progress, Jackie--

Down to the nitty/gritty items that take so long with ARTHRITIC fingers--

___and winter comes early in the mountains--

I got hands that my sainted mother used to have , lumps on every knuckle , aches for no reason, and im younger than you.

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We get winters too, normally wet and windy.

[Lake X Kid]

Still a work in progress, Jackie--
Down to the nitty/gritty items that take so long with ARTHRITIC fingers--
___and winter comes early in the mountains--

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Jackie whilst Gene is deciding on where each hose is suppose to attach where, and the wiring too, I have a question.

Help me on this photo, I just found. Is this Windermere Lake, and who are the gentlemen in the photo with Roy Ridgell?

[jackiewilson]

Jackie whilst Gene is deciding on where each hose is suppose to attach where, and the wiring too, I have a question.

Help me on this photo, I just found. Is this Windermere Lake, and who are the gentlemen in the photo with Roy Ridgell?

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Thats Mike Bellamy, looks like HTS , the one he and Jimmy Booker and Eddie Chater drove to victory in the London Monte Carlo race. I will ask Christian Toll for confirmation. He is well into historic off shore racing .

Always makes me smile when i see pictures of George Clooney and his wife in their villa on Lake Como.
I think to myself, i was there long before you Georgie boy, my friend Roy Ridgell and his wife and family lived in a villa on lake Como just up the road a piece.

[FUJIMO]

...keep digging out those old pics kid. its great that they even exist.

[jackiewilson]

Havent found out who the two in the background are yet, but i have ambition. Been a couple of suggestions, but nothing that im happy with.
I always thought HTS, was a MAGNUM or an APACHE that Mike bought cheap,(as he usually did), but apparently its a SHEAD design.
What i can tell you, if Bellamy ever puts his mind to anything, it will happen, and if he tells you something, it will be a fact. he’s one of those annoying folk that are never wrong.
HTS was put together for one race , and one race only, The London/Monte Carlo
wasn’t even quick, had workhorse diesels that were built to last the distance. If you don’t have problems, you dont lose time fixing them. Simple philosophy that worked over the fifteen legs.
Legend has it that nobody remembers who came second. On this occasion I seem to remember it as the Avenger of Pascoe Watson and “Bendy” ( Brian Hendicot) with Mercury outboards that came a close second.? But I wouldn’t bet the farm on it.

[jackiewilson]

Worry not for i have set the wheels in motion. Should have the names of the two background guys by close of play tomorrow, or heads will roll.

[jackiewilson]

Got some news and no news, Bellamy still has all his marbles but is using a lot of medicine. He doesnt remember who the guys behind him were , but the handshake with Roy , is for the loan of props which gave him the extra couple of knots to lift the world diesel record. Remember “ Bootsie” was the fast boy with diesels around that time. Mike also confirmed that HTS was an “APACHE” .which i have always thought it was.

[FUJIMO]

...the HTS 33 footer was a Shead designed, diesel powered deep-vee that was later raced with the name down the sides "APACHE". it was not the american, florida made Apache. it had quite a few owners & powered by three or four different brands of diesels in its life.

[jackiewilson]

Think you will find Mike Bellamy, or Eddie Chater still own it, I had heard Sheady designed it , was the name APACHE that threw me. Probably one of Mikes caustic Jokes.

[GENE LANHAM]

Think you will find Mike Bellamy, or Eddie Chater still own it, I had heard Sheady designed it , was the name APACHE that threw me. Probably one of Mikes caustic Jokes.

Ian AND Christian Toll---have access to some amazing history----

[jackiewilson]

Ian AND Christian Toll---have access to some amazing history----

It was Christian who called Mike Bellamy . He has some kind of Melanoma and is on some amazing new medication. Knowing Bellamy , he will live to be 111 just to show he could.

[FUJIMO]

...affects too people. they need to find a cure for that proto...

[techteam]

If you can tell me the year I will check the Archive and see if there are any other pictures. One day I'll get round to scanning them and putting up a website.

[jackiewilson]

From memory 1972, was the trials for the London Monte Carlo.

[FUJIMO]

...how HTS looked originally, circa 1969...