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12-06-2005, 02:45 PM #1
Hot Singles ! - Pictures
From the Golden Era
Found some old pictures ( don't know why I keep saying that, hell....all my stuff is old )
#254 - Tom Stickle - 17' Molinari sprint - 1350 stacker - 1971 Parker 9 Hour - note his cowling is gone, must be trying to make up time lost in the pits - can't get much looser than this and still keep the " This Side Up " decal pointed in the right direction. I think this is the race he ran wearing a full leg cast, we had to use a super-sized shoehorn just to get him in that thing.
#251 - Mike Downard - 17' Molinari marathon - C6 - 1971 Parker 9 Hour - note the single pipe exhaust (loved that noise) - Mike seems to be saying " Yea, you can get just a little looser "
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12-06-2005, 02:59 PM #2Screaming And Flying!
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Keep Em Coming
...i Always Enjoy Your Posts And Pictures.
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12-06-2005, 04:05 PM #3
Thank you......here's a couple more
#457 - Bobby Hering - 17' Molinari pickle fork sprint - TII - Dayton - the Kaukauna record run boat 118 mph - laid out about as perfect as can be done
#190 - Bill Seebold - 17' Molinari marathon - TII - looks like Morgan City - he and Hering stole that show - they were running the 1st version of the NED C6 - When I sent the Morgan City powerheads to Fond du Lac for dyno testing, I asked Dr. Morgan to pay special attention to 2 specific serial numbers. When he sent them back, he said that those 2 had pulled the most horsepower. After the race he said " Let me guess, Hering and Seebold had the 2 we discussed " . I nodded "yes". He smiled and said " You're not going to tell me what you guys did are you?" I smiled and shook my head "no"
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12-07-2005, 10:26 AM #4
Hope you're not disappointed that the pictures of 'Hot Singles" are of boats ..... here are a couple more
#148 - Dick Sherrer - Crusader hull - TII - Parker 9 Hour - laid out very nice
#22 - Jackie Wilson - 17' Molinari marathon - Cowbell - Havasu 1970- If you have ever talked to Jackie, you know that every other sentence has a " bloody hooray " in it someplace. I had our boat painter make a couple of decals with that term on them. I presented them to Jackie at Havasu, he laughed and said that he would display them proudly I guess you can't see them the way this picture turned out, but that's what it says in the white rectangle just in front of his number.
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12-08-2005, 11:00 AM #5
Here's a couple more...
#457 - Bobby Hering - 17' Molinari sprint - 1350 stacker - Havasu - on Sunday he set a record for distance covered by a single over a 4 hour period, breaking the one Tom Stickle had set the day before in an identical setup
#187 - Jim Merten - 16' Molinari sprint - 1250 - Miami Nationals - I might not have this exactly right because this was a strange deal, but here's the story.
We took two of these 16' sprints to Lake X, one for Merten and the other for Bill Sirois. The idea was to run the standard version of the engine for what was "U" class and then put the stacked powerhead on to run "S". Sirois hadn't arrived yet, so Merten set up both "U" boats. We started on the stacker setups and found that the engines were cutting out on both boats on top end only. We pulled carbs apart, changed electrical components and changed complete powerheads, all with no success. I called engineers back in Wisconsin, but they all drew blanks also. To make matters worse, while a bunch of us were in the shop working on Merten's boat, he and Richie Powers were testing Sirois's boat. Merten told Powers to take it for a run in hopes that might give Richie a better idea of what was happening........Richie blew it over. Looking at the bright side of things, that did cut our problem in half
We finally figured out the problem and went down to Miami. If memory serves, Merten was feeling bad about Sirois not having a boat, so they agreed that one of them would run "U" and the other "S". This picture is Sirois driving.By the way, any of you guys got an idea on why those engines were cutting out ?Last edited by willabee; 01-20-2017 at 10:23 AM.
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12-08-2005, 11:28 AM #6Screaming And Flying!
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Brings Back Memories
As a kid a use to watch these events locally ( Rockford Il/ RockRiver ) I remember guy's like Art Kennedy Dick Ingabritsen ( probably spelled it wrong )
Even saw Tim Seebolds first race, I believe it was class C he had a Orange tunnel that they had to weight the front of for him cuz he was such a little **** back then. At one point I think Alan Stoker and the mod vp stuff made its way into are area, sad, that stuff was great to watch and really brought the crowds out family entertainment at its best. Thanks again willabe for the great stuff your posting !!!
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06-26-2006, 01:01 PM #7
Looks like Bill...White pattern on helmet was his.- Steve
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"By the way, any of you guys got an idea on why those engines were cutting out?'
My uneducated guess is; at top-end rpm the engines were starving for fuel, because the carb's jets were to small, or the heat from the Stacks was causing electrical shorts.
Now I hope someone with the real reason why, will reveal the real culprit.
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[quote=willabee;792810]Thank you......here's a couple more
#457 - Bobby Hering - 17' Molinari pickle fork sprint - TII - maybe the Kaukauna record run - 118 mph - laid out about as perfect as can be done
Willabee;
Wish you would write a book!!!
Not sure if this attached picture and caption (if you can read it?) has appeared before.
It's about how this radically new "pickle-forked" boat was secretly brought to Dayton, Ohio on June 17, 1972.
Was this the first sighting of a pickle-forked boat in North America?
Please elaborate on this secret mission.
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03-21-2007, 10:46 AM #12
The picture is on both posts #105 & #188 with some background info about it before it came here (I have the black & white picture, no caption). The secret stuff the writer is refering to is how the boat was covered at the nose and the rear until it was in the water and then immediately covered before it was pulled out again. Merc made a bit of a spectacle out of trying to hide it (that's always good for some additional PR.....act like you don't want it).
I think Stylecraft or Powercat might be called the 1st pickle fork in the OPC ranks, but to me, that's a bit of a stretch (you posted a photo of Harold Eis in his Salty Cat Stylecraft on the "Hot Multi's" thread and that was from 1964). I think they had more of a "relief" in the nose than they did pickle fork sponsons. Olegator could probably tell us when McCall started building his pickle fork. The 1st full pickle fork I recall was the 18' twin Ron Jones that Bill Cooper won the Long Beach Invitational with in 1968. Jones was building pickle forks for the drag racing people before these boats made the scene.
Here is Eis, Cooper and Gary Ferguson .....Last edited by willabee; 03-21-2007 at 12:44 PM.
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03-23-2007, 11:49 PM #13
Does anyone know anything about this Molinari #95 called Hales Comet ?? Bad picture, but the only one I have.
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Hey there John.....just wanted to say Hi! Bill and I communicated here awhile ago about he helped with the design of the "Moly" picklefork.
Do you ever hear from Bert Serra?
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I will agree...........I saw a few of these in the early days and still caqn't imagine what a ride it must have been! Even coming from the kneel down Alky world they always looked frightening!