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    1517 gear cases on the RV for stranglers never were a success always ran one to ones whenever I got the chance for TopSpeed. Maybe the 1517‘s are a little bit better on a short course less than a mile but like you say they robbed a lot of speed. I know when I tried to run a super strangler stinger on one of my last races with the L Martin pickle fork against the new T3 Mercury’s I could run with them on the Mylan 2/3 course in the stadium on top end. But when they ran the race the next day on a mile and 1/4 course I could not accelerate with the V sixes mercury t3. Being the low budget raiser that I was I even tried both props and changed to the 1517 no joy

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    In this picture if you can’t see GP’s hands One might wonder why the queen is smiling

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    Quote Originally Posted by C.G. 125 View Post
    I have retired and closed down the Boat Center in Fort Laud.
    chick, are you still in florida?
    The "Wheel Man" of the Sunshine Syndicate

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    Still here in Plantation. Purchased a lot in Central Fl about ten years ago with the thought of moving but the business kept me here. Now that I'm free from the everyday.....C

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    Mr. Hunt much respect from amberjack 1234. You were one bad boat racer in your Hey DAY And there wasn’t much if you couldn’t make a run as fast or faster than anybody driving.

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    Quote Originally Posted by C.G. 125 View Post
    Jock Hornor is very much alive and still living in Ga.
    Thanks for that info Chick

    Hard to believe--OVER fifty years ago!!!!!



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    Mercury Marine's V6 Race Team

    Reggie Fountain, Bill Seebold, and Earl Bentz

    Team Mercury - mid to late 1970s.

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    Hey FUJIMo i found a box of color slides from the 1970's in Orlando that has a bunch of cool pics. How do i post them ?

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    ...greg would know how to do that exactly. he did a lot of parkers dads slides & posted them. kinda involved...

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    Arguably the most prestigious race in Europe during the 1970s.

    Paris 6 Hour near the Eiffel Tower.

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    20th century F1 (1960s & early 1970s) cockpits ... have evolved into the 2022 cockpit of Brent Dillard's race boat.



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    Bob Geary .....

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    Havasu Outboard World Championships - 1972 ( continued ).......

    This is the 9th championship and Merc has won seven, Cesare Scotti won one for OMC in 1969. Although OMC had won St. Louis, Merc was clearly the dominate force in 1972 and we had no reason to think we this race was going to be any different.......just set our stuff up right and keep it on the water and we should go home with another victory. Turned out that we screwed up our battle plan before the race ever started and keeping the boats on the water proved to be harder than anticipated.

    I can't remember exactly how this happened, but the story goes something like this.......While most of us were in Europe, Plt.#6 engineering in Oshkosh had built four new TII powerheads and had offered them to Racing for Havasu. I remember asking what was different about them and just can't remember what the answer was, something about porting? Anyway, they were supposed to be good powerheads, but were not expected to perform as well as our C6's. So we took them ( I'll talk more about them later ) and Jim Merten added four boats to our support list for the race. When we got to Havasu, we just had too much going on at our rented house headquarters, so I asked Bob Geary to take the four powerheads and the rest of what he would require and to take the four boats to his hotel and set up shop for them at that location. The four boats were Bert Serra, Gary Peacock, Duey Berghauer and Jerry Simison.

    The boats remaining at the house included Renato Molinari, Bob Hering and Bill Seebold all driving new picklefork Molinari's. I think Billy Don Pruett was i. the Paris 72 winner and Cees van der Velden, Dick Sherrer, Bill Petty & Reggie Fountain were among the drivers running the full nose Molinari's ( Earl Bentz hadn't seen the light yet and was driving for Team Johnson ). Great equipment and a pretty impressive group of drivers, another win can only be eight hours away!
    Good friend and Mercury Racing Team, teammate, Bob Geary, passed away August 16th. We had some great times together back in the day. In the late 60's, we were into drag racing. Bob had a 427 (maybe a 396) Chevy and I had a 426 hemi Dodge. One Sunday the races got rained out, so lots of the participants headed for a bar not too far down the road called Little Chicago. You can probably guess what happened next.
    Yep, after a couple of beers, Bob got to sayin' that his Chevy could clean my clock. I looked outside and noticed the sun was shining. I suggested we go back to the dragstrip and resolve this disagreement. So the two of us went back, only to find the place locked up. We were determined to race and did find a way to "break in".
    Back at Little Chicago, Bob bought me a beer, gave me a hug and said "Now that was fun!" .... and it was, just like s page out of ​American Graffiti

    RIP Bob .....

    Bob, front row second from left, at the Miami 225, 1972 .....
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