Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

[jackiewilson]

Looks like the firesale is taking off .
If any of you old farts out there would like anything you have ever seen on the TRICKS site , just PM me and make me an offer. Sammy James did and walked off with a beautiful Radial engine concept .
Even a SILVER GHOST for Sale on there . Was hoping to move before christmas , realtors and Lawyers blame COVID for their inability to get a wriggle on , fact is, they have always been straphangers and procrastinators to try and justify their outrageous fees. Just like dentists and vetinarys . If you got teeth and pets you need deep pockets.

[Lake X Kid]

Looks like the firesale is taking off .
If any of you old farts out there would like anything you have ever seen on the TRICKS site , just PM me and make me an offer. Sammy James did and walked off with a beautiful Radial engine concept .
Even a SILVER GHOST for Sale on there . Was hoping to move before christmas ...

The best to your firesale of Christmas gifts.

Returning back to the drama on the race tracks and courses. I do believe Romain Grosjean, is thankful he will be spending another Christmas Day with his family. In fact in an interview after his horrific fiery crash, Grosjean mention whilst he was in the cockpit surrounded by fire, that wanting to see his kids again was his main motivation to escape the flaming confines.

I remember Indy car drivers in interviews back in the 1960's & 70's, mentioning there greatest worry was a fiery crash, and not escaping the wreak in due time.
A watery grave is probably what occupies boat racers, in the back of their minds. I never had that kind of conversation with the boat drivers, I knew, nor did any of them mention that was a concern for them. But it has crossed my mind, as probably the greater concern racing on water.

[Lake X Kid]

Sequence of some of Romain's thoughts, stuck inside the cockpit:

I do not want to end up like Niki Lauda.
I am stuck.
I am going to die.
Muscles relax, peace with myself, I am dying.
For my kids I cannot die, I got to see them.
My hands are in the fire.
I am on fire.
...

[jackiewilson]

Ive only ever been in that dark place the once—-upside down , trapped in the boat . Paris six hours.
green murky water actually turned bright red.

[FUJIMO]

...lack of oxygen?...

[powerabout]

Got clonked on the head as a kid ( you only feel a jolt to your body when the brain shuts down so I didnt know where i was hit ) once on a river bank, went in the water and woke up on the bottom a few seconds later, was all very calm, I could just see some light from the surface, swam up and climbed out, feeling very groggy.

Tried it again the other day in a raceboat as I used my helmet to launch another boat over me, I was conscious but brain shut down even though there is video I cant remember anything till they towed me to the shore even though I was talking to them, they asked me where i was, I couldnt remember till in the ambulance going for mri.
They asked me which turn the accident was and I thought 2 turns back, couldnt believe where it was till they showed me the vid.

[powerabout]

Love to own one Jackie tunnel boat...

so what ya got?

[jackiewilson]

Just about everything you could ever imagine.
Six pot Radial and the MALIBUSTANG are both gone . Still have over 50 concepts to move.Just one of the fifty

[FUJIMO]

[FUJIMO]

[jackiewilson]

I have five or six hardwood v bottoms, maybe ten tunnels. Six silver ghosts and one golden ghost.

[FUJIMO]

[jackiewilson]

This wonderful lady was „DEN MOTHER“ to the whole Mercury team. GG (Or Willabee more likely) would rent a large house in Havasu. Ken and Molly Balou would look after the whole team‘.
Molly wasnt too shabby in a drag boat either, she would run around the 120 mark in the twin Mercury powered Ron Jones Hydro, i got to know her through Kathy Flo Smith and Billy Don Pruett. She was also chief timekeeper for Mercury on the point. Ask any old Mercury racer about Molly and he will just smile, everyone loved Molly and Kenny.

[techteam]

I was deleting a few things and don't know if I ever posted these, the Molinari one is well known but I don't know about the others of Jackie.

[jackiewilson]

I was deleting a few things and don't know if I ever posted these, the Molinari one is well known but I don't know about the others of Jackie.

That little sprint Molinari was really fast with the 1000 BP. Twister. Would often outrun the 1250 BP. But they all had larger boats.
Sprint boat came after the 17 footer. Was the fact that the little Schultze with the 1000Bp made the 18 foot Molinari obsolete.
I sold it to Bob Spalding , he went around Europe winning everything, after that all tunnels got considerably smaller. Shakey only ever built small tunnels, as did Freddie after Bills demise.