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    Found Some More Stuff......

    When you went to the Nautical Inn ( and other restaurants ) in Havasu for a bite to eat in 1972, you were treated to a placemat that featured Mercury's Twistercraft and Twister engine. This was in response to what OMC had forced you to stare at in 1971.

    Starting top center and going clockwise, the Evinrude mat featured Jimbo McConnell, Ted May, Ron Hill, Cesare Scotti, Mike Wallace and Barry Woods.

    The Johnson mat had Tommy Posey, Johnny Sanders, Art Kennedy, Mac McCune, and Jeff Briggs........
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    A Couple of Great Designs.......

    It didn't seem to matter what type of course or what the water conditions were, these two designs always ran at or near the front in every race they entered.

    #254 - Tom Stickle - 1970 Havasu, set a course record on Saturday......notice how much room the other 100 boats gave this guy when he ran at speed ( Bob Hering ran a twin to this boat ).

    #251 - Mike Downard - 1970 Havasu, one of those "white" Molinari's we talked about earlier......Hering had one also and his success with it is what established his place as one of the best.
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    Willabee,

    If you keep mentioning Mr. T......is head is only going to keep getting bigger and bigger then it already is.....just kidding!

    Keep the great stories coming, very interesting pieces of OB history.

    We need to get Mike Downard to post. His brother, Gorden posted a little a few months ago.

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    Speaking of Bob Hering.......

    Another shot of the 118 mph kilo record setting Molinari.......this one was taken at the Nationals in Dayton where he set a 5 mile competition record of 82.873 mph. I'm pretty sure this was the first Molinari pickle fork run in the US and was it's first race. Notice what I always thought was Renato's idea of "wheelie bars for a boat" hanging out behind the TII.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SCT
    Willabee,

    If you keep mentioning Mr. T......is head is only going to keep getting bigger and bigger then it already is.....just kidding!

    Keep the great stories coming, very interesting pieces of OB history.

    We need to get Mike Downard to post. His brother, Gorden posted a little a few months ago.
    Although I do post pictures of him racing, please note that I never say anything nice about him. Like you, I worry about that head size

    It would be interesting if Mike would share his thoughts and experiences.
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    dug up an old one

    willabee, this was on a old thread from a race in st. pete at lake maggorie, around '72?? any idea who was driving this rig? #699?
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    dick englebrits

    hey my dad was in the quote on quote (pit crew)here in rockford when dick englebrits blew over.he was getting beat in the heat races (just by a bit)and wanted a bigger prop which led up to him blowing over.not sure if this was talked about yet (didnt read all the replies but there ya go).

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    Bob Spalding

    The photo shows Bob Spalding, Rick LaMore, and Big Bob Hetzel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mbd29
    The photo shows Bob Spalding, Rick LaMore, and Big Bob Hetzel.
    Boat #699

    Mike, hope you don't mind a slight correction.....Bob Spalding, big Rick LaMore and bald Boob Hetzel . It also looks like Garbrecht walking out of view on the right.
    TII on a pickle fork, probably 1973.

    Here's at shot of Hetzel showing a member of the Powerboat Magazine staff just what a Merc 1000 can do during the Mercury dealer congress in Oshkosh in 1968. Olegator, that same article mentioned that about a dozen of the 1250's made their debut at the Salton Sea 500 in 1967 ( think "Big Engine List" ).
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    Speaking of Olegator......

    Jim Hunt heading back to the pits after setting a world record of 67.265 mph in U class at the Div.8 Regionals in Miami......July,1969. Cowled McCall with a 1250 Super BP......on his knees again?
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    thanks

    i appreciate you guys (mbd29 and willabee) posting the info on the picture. i had a feeling that the driver would have to be somebody relatively important to have that equipment during that time frame. also thanks again to willabee for the shot of dad in U-44, i'll add it to my growing collection of photos. on a side note i will be posting something soon about that U-44/McCall/stacker rig

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    Havasu - 1971.....

    This was the last go-round for factory multi engine boats. Among the Molinari hulls we entered were Bill Sirois in the reverse S with TI's ( Jim Merten's 1970 boat ), Bill Petty in the engines over sponsons with TI's ( Renato's 1970 boat ) and Billy Don Pruett in the 21' ( Sirois 1970 boat ). Singles included Bob Hering, Renato Molinari, Tom Stickle, Mike Downard and Bill Seebold.

    Sirois won followed by Reggie Fountain, driving for Glastron in a 21' and Harold Eis in his modified Stylecraft, all twins. However, the real action was in the singles competition. Hering and Molinari ran C6's and the others had TI's. Hering actually paced the field on Saturday before he punched a hole in his rig. Seebold, Downard and OMC's Mike Wallace and Jimbo McConnell all led the singles competition at some point. On Sunday, Hering started for Renato and made up 2 of the 3 laps they were down, he even put a lap on the twins! Renato climbed in after a fuel stop and made up the last lap by passing Wallace with 3 laps remaining and that included making a fuel stop that Wallace didn't have to make.....they say the fuel stop took 15 seconds ( thank you Jim Emerson ). Renato and Hering finished 1st single and 4th overall, 24 seconds ahead of Wallace.

    I don't remember what happened to Petty, Pruett flipped and broke his hip, Downard's engine caught fire while leading the singles, Seebold finished and I think I recall that Stickle overslept and missed the race on Sunday

    Here's Hering driving Renato's boat and Wallace in his Schulze/Evinrude.
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    Havasu - 1971 ( continued )......

    Dick Sherrer took 6th overall and 3rd single followed by Jimbo McConnell ( despite performing a double barrel roll in his Scotticraft/Evinrude ). Hiram Mueck was 8th in a 21' Glastron Molinari/Merc's, Ron Brown 9th in a Schulze/Merc's and Bob Nordskog 10th in a single Schulze.

    Here's a shot of Jimbo before the barrel roll and one of Johnny Sanders, who was fast, but didn't last.
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    Parker - 1972.......

    1972 was kind of a strange year for factory racing. We started the year with a full team at the Miami 225, all equipped with C6's for the first time ( the story of that event is posted on the "Mercury Racing Team - Picture 1972" thread ) and the race gets cancelled. Then both teams say that that they won't be attending Parker, I believe citing budgets as the reason. OMC ends up sending their whole team and Mercury sends one factory boat ( there were also a couple of factory supported boats ). I didn't attend the race, but I recall that the one boat was Bill Seebold/Bill Petty in Seebold's 17' Molinari and I'm pretty sure they ran a single pipe C6 with some experimental stuff. The boat ran strong but had to change powerheads and finished 6th, four laps behind the winning Scotticraft/Evinrude driven by Jimbo McConnell/Ted May. Here's a shot of the winner with Jimbo at the wheel.........
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    Parker - 1972 ( continued )......

    I believe this race served as sort of a launching pad for the racing careers of two drivers, Barry Woods and Bob Holloway. When I met Barry in 1970 or 1971, he was an independent driving a Mercury powered twin, I think it was a 20' Marathon out of Loveland, Co.. It must have been because of the equipment that he was driving ( his twin was not a very good boat ) that his real talent never really surfaced in those couple of years. Somehow, he and OMC got together and they put him in a single Schulze/Evinrude with Fred Hauenstein Jr. and they finished 3rd at Parker. That finish put Barry on the map and he proved to be one of the best for the next several years.....Mercury really missed that one .

    Holloway was another independent driving Merc rigs mostly on the West coast. His 4th place finish opened the eyes of the Merc brass and he started receiving some assistance. As he continued to achieve good results, his support level continued to increase. When I was Mgr. of Hi-Perf., I was able to get him a new 17' Molinari with TII power and backup powerheads and gearcases, etc. and he won a bunch of races and almost always ran up front .

    Here's Woods in the Schulze and Holloway, teamed with Bruce Bourquin, in his Miles Master......
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