Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

[lars strom]

More from the Marine stadium event 1975.
#11 is Jorge Regnicoli from Argentina.
All Seebold tunnel boats with Evinrude 75HP outbords. Model year 1976

https://svera.se/blogg/the-race-of-c...y-bill-muncey/

A better picture of #11 Jorge Regnicoli from Argentina in his brand new Seebold/Evinrude 75HP.

@peterse90
Here..

[lars strom]

This is a great picture from The Race of Champions at the Miami Marine Stadium 1975 by Bill Muncey.

Looks like 5 drivers and Captain Ray..
Roger Jenkins and Angelo Vassena..not sure about the other 3..

@Rotary John
..do you know..??

[Rotary John]

This is a great picture from The Race of Champions at the Miami Marine Stadium 1975 by Bill Muncey.

Looks like 5 drivers and Captain Ray..
Roger Jenkins and Angelo Vassena..not sure about the other 3..

@Rotary John
..do you know..??

I don't know. Maybe Kathy does.

[lars strom]

[WaterZebra]

Does anyone know how long it took Seebold to produce those hulls? Who / where were the engines installed? Rigging? Testing? Props? After the one and only ROC race, where did all these boats end up? OMC? I remember the Jeff Brown ad promoting complete Sport E rigs. Were these the boats?

[lars strom]

@WaterZebra

If you watch the video all the questions you have about rigging etc. is in there.
I guess OMC sold most of the boats after the Miami race.

[Lake X Kid]

[peterse90]

My Seebold SE hull was NOT one of these. Mine had very different sponson bottoms.
Seebold made 17 hulls for the ROC. Bill told me over time they made about 35 SE hulls in total.

[WaterZebra]

My Seebold SE hull was NOT one of these. Mine had very different sponson bottoms.
Seebold made 17 hulls for the ROC. Bill told me over time they made about 35 SE hulls in total.

laborate


Did Bill elaborate on how the 17 ROC hulls were made? Schedule? Deadline? etc

[keith scotton]

Just wondering if any are still around.

[lars strom]

More from Miami Marine Stadium late 1975..This is from Cathy McConnell..
Thank you

"At the Muncey Race…….What Racers do when not in their Boats"

[2us70]

I was at that race. As a long time SE racer I was not impressed. This event was an OMC and ABC Sports creation. A bunch of those guys had no clue about how to drive one of those boats much less race them.

[WaterZebra]

I was at that race. As a long time SE racer I was not impressed. This event was an OMC and ABC Sports creation. A bunch of those guys had no clue about how to drive one of those boats much less race them.

Yeah, when I looked at the names I scratched my head. Pardon me, but driving an unlimited is like driving your parent's Chevy station wagon!

[lars strom]

Some info from my FaceBook today.
Yes..Roger Jenkins..the current UIM OE class World Champion 1975 and a very good SE class racer was part of the Miami race 1975.
Also Jimbo McConnell..!!
Here is Rogers wife Denise and Jimbos wife Cathy..

• Denise Jenkins
• We were there.
  
  Cathy McConnell
  
• Yes Denise, you were…… and then we had the fun trip back to Illinois with You and Roger. I was just looking through some photos for Lars and ran across us at Disney World and Chattanooga. Good Memories. I still remember how Roger was more interested in going underground at Disney World to see how everything operated than he was on the street surface.

[lars strom]

Angelo Vassena of Italy in one of the Seebold Evinrude 75HP. Angelo and I competed many years in the SE class.
He is a very successful SE class racer with victories in Paris 6 hours and Rouen 24 hours.

Barry Woods, Cees Van Der Velden, Johnny Sanders are pretty famous tunnel boat racers also in Seebold/Evinrude 75 boats.