Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

[lars strom]

[2us70]

Your a better man than I am Lars Strom.

Thanks..its a lot of work to keep the Prevost XLll by Marathon nice. The outside/and big part of the frame are polished stainless steel. I did all the maintenance myself including detailing.

[lars strom]

Cees Van Der Velden is up front in his #1 Johnson Stinger GP V6 (in the Rotterdam race 1975)

[Lake X Kid]

Kudos to the St. Louis GP for consistently drawing large crowds to watch the races.
Albeit other host cities in USA, wish they knew the process to gravitate the same interest at their race events.

[lars strom]

Happy Birthday Johnnie Sanders.. 84 years young today.

[Mark75H]

Kudos to the St. Louis GP for consistently drawing large crowds to watch the races.
Albeit other host cities in USA, wish they knew the process to gravitate the same interest at their race events.

Having a local hero helps

[Lake X Kid]

Speculation on my part, but I think I just found out why there was an OMC facility in Stuart Florida.

Ralph Evinrude had additional interests in the south Florida area. Mainly his wife Frances Langford a Floridian.
Frances was a past Hollywood actress, and had also toured with Bob Hope entertaining the soldiers.

[Dave S]

Yaa back When........in New York.... HeeHee......Up in the Northen Neck......Of LI, Eatons Neck.......EORC....? having a race.....No imput.......My Buddy got the NewsDay to runn an article about the race....... Very good turn out.......But that was THEN.........Mask up shut up......

[lars strom]

The 6 our race in South Africa in the winter of 1969/70 is very interesting for this thread..!!
Here is why..!!

Cesare Scotti in the first picture and Renato Molinari in the second picture.
Scotti was racing the #23 Molinari/Evinrude Starflite SS V4 third picture.
Renato Molinari was racing the #22 Molinari/Evinrude Starflite SS V4 behind the #23.
The race was run at Umgeni River, just outside Pietermaritzburg.
After 6 hours Scotti won and Renato was second.

Thanks to Terry Weddell for info and pictures.

[lars strom]

Both the #22 & #23 Molinari/Evinrude Starflite SS V4 boats Renato & Scotti drove in the 6 hour race, South Africa 1969/70 are saved and in pretty good shape.
Here is the Trophy's from the race

[peterse90]

Mark Rotharmel in a Burgess that Mark drove here in Canada. I would guess this used to be Roger Jenkin's Burgess (?).
Guess I could just ask Mark...but that would be too easy.

[lars strom]

Pretty sure it is a former Jenkins Carlsberg Burgess.
Trying to figure out witch one..not the one Roger raced/crashed 1983 in Minneapolis..
Looks like it is an 1984 Evinrude engine cover..its probably the one David Burgess built after the 1983 crash for the rest of the 1983 season.
The Burgess Roger raced in 1984 used a newer type boat cowlings.
Well..it could be Rogers 1982 World Champion Burgess. @Watermark

[lars strom]

This is Rogers 1984 style Burgess..the one he raced before switching to Hodges.

[lars strom]

Zumba "Halloween" today..!!
Scary..

[Lake X Kid]

Later in 1971:
Cesare Scotti is manufacturing his own tunnel brand race boats.
Renato Molinari is driving for the Mercury factory team.

[QUOTE=lars strom;3241471]The 6 our race in South Africa in the winter of 1969/70 is very interesting for this thread..!!
Here is why..!!

Cesare Scotti in the first picture and Renato Molinari in the second picture.
Scotti was racing the #23 Molinari/Evinrude Starflite SS V4 third picture.
Renato Molinari was racing the #22 Molinari/Evinrude Starflite SS V4 behind the #23.
The race was run at Umgeni River, just outside Pietermaritzburg.
After 6 hours Scotti won and Renato was second.

Thanks to Terry Weddell for info and pictures.

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