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**mbd29** · 01-22-2007, 07:00 AM

Dave did get Lil Red. It ended up in New York and is still on display.

**willabee** · 01-22-2007, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by T2x

It sure looks like the twin to a Miles I ran a year later.......
Maybe Arnstad copied the hull and cowlings from Miles...?
T2x

Or.....maybe I'm wrong about the boat. Do you guys recall this being the one that Pruett ran at Memphis? If so, then I could be wrong about the make.....I just seem to remember him running a Marathon.

**willabee** · 01-22-2007, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by mbd29

Dave did get Lil Red. It ended up in New York and is still on display.

That's interesting.....what year did he get the boat, I assume he did well with it in Hawaii and where was that picture taken?

**largecar91** · 01-22-2007, 10:44 AM

Any idea on how many Marathon hulls were built? I had one and a friend of mine still has one.

**willabee** · 01-22-2007, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by largecar91

Any idea on how many Marathon hulls were built? I had one and a friend of mine still has one.

No, I sure don't have any idea of how many were built. They were a well built boat, a little heavy, but strong. I think I first saw them as twin outboards around 1969 and not very many of them. Then around 1973 he started building hulls for the KT's and some single engine outboards. Don't know how many, but would be surprised if it was much more than a dozen of each.....just a guess.

**largecar91** · 01-22-2007, 01:47 PM

I Plan On Testing The One My Friend Has This Spring. I Will Post Some Pics. It Has A Chrysler Stacker On It.

**willabee** · 01-22-2007, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by Sherlock

Willabee,Your welcome,,, glad I could help !!!

John

Man!!!.....you have really become the typical Evinrude guy ..... Slow on Sunday and super quick on Monday. I figured I had time to wait until you answered the rest of that question before I'd send the thanks

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I didn't know Dave was from New York and, until your response, was thinking that maybe Clayton was where mbd29 was talking about. I've talked with him many times, at races and in Oshkosh, and I guess where he was from never came up. Dave used to stop in at Racing about once a year and go through our scrap bins. Then he would ask for an escort and walk through the boat yard to see if there were any "used" race boats that we would part with and would also ask me if there were any engines that we "had no use for". When he was finished touring, he would meet with Garbrecht. Gary would let me know what stuff he had agreed to sell to Dave and we would get it boxed up for shipment. I have no idea what kind of deals he was given, and there was certainly nothing wrong or out of line with how he went about his quest for equipment, but that was how he acquired and maintained a lot of his racing equipment in Hawaii.

BTW, I do respond to "Bill" also, you didn't have to change that

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**willabee** · 01-22-2007, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by largecar91

I Plan On Testing The One My Friend Has This Spring. I Will Post Some Pics. It Has A Chrysler Stacker On It.

Would like to see it.....it won't be quick, but it may be a "looker" and will sound mean. Sounds like a fun project

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**willabee** · 01-22-2007, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by Sherlock

This I don't know but I think Bob Valachovic. would have the answer. Bob did it over and donated it to the museum.

Thank you for that information.........As to your question about number of races won, I have to stick with my "If I would have run, I would have won" .

**mbd29** · 01-23-2007, 06:00 AM

Hey Bill: Dave didn't change much after you left. He would come to Oshkosh walk around and see what was there and leave with a truck full of stuff. He and Gary were close. He picked up Lil Red in 1976. I believe he painted it yellow right away. I never saw it again until John sent the picture. I would like to build a copy of it and set it up the way Billy ran it when he set the record. It is just talk now. Jim Merten and I have been talking about it a little.

Attached is the Marathon boat I ran with a Twister. Barry Woods ran a twin Marathon at Havasu in 1970.