Hot Multi's - Pictures

**MN4V** · 02-06-2008, 05:48 PM

I talked with Tinker today. He has been in contact with Molly and is sending me some of her personal photos of her boat being built and raced. This is going to be a big help in building the replica of her boat.
Mark N

**willabee** · 02-07-2008, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by MN4V

I talked with Tinker today. He has been in contact with Molly ......

Thanks guys, it's great to hear that Molly is alive and well

......When you talk to Tinker, see if he has any recollection of being in the coffee shop at the Edgewater Hyatt House in Long Beach in about 1970. It would have been around 9 PM, after the Invitational had been run and he was talking racing with some guy when a distraction came into the restaurant

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**MN4V** · 06-05-2008, 08:14 PM

What brand of boat is that John? And is this boat related to the Just Add Water boats in Indy?
Mark

**MN4V** · 06-05-2008, 09:32 PM

Yes, But Twin Mercury Stackers at 6000 RPM Are Better!!!!

That's Cool that you met someone who has some history in OPC. I'm sure it will continue the more we show our OPC Vintage boats.
Mark

**MN4V** · 06-05-2008, 09:47 PM

I did post about how good your photos are on the OFFICAL WEB SITE OF VINTAGE AND HISTORIC DIVISION OF APBA web site, but I guess I'm baned from posting there because I'm a OPC guy.So my post got deleted. Too bad for me I guess!! Not!!!!!!!!

So why is it we don't need a Separate Division For OPC Vintage?
Mark

**Backfire** · 06-05-2008, 10:58 PM

Yes that is the "Just Add Water" at Indy. I signed Bob up as a Johnson Dealer in 1971. Jim Booe (started Precision Propellers- TURBO) after a couple of years as manager of "JAW". Ted Novicki, JAW manager grew it into a Indy powerhouse and left to build his own large dealership-Ted's Aqua Marine in 1977.
Jim having worked for Switzer Turbo in Indy, also built several engines, turbo and non turbo for Bob. The Turbo V4 Johnson ran so well that Jack Leek, Charlie Strang and Jimbo McConnel came down to run it on the JAW lake at the dealership. Jim solved the bogging problem on take off, idled great. He said he let Jimbo hot lap all he wanted to but would not take the shroud off. I think they could not keep head gaskets it for long. Some dyno runs went to 240's hp before pieces came apart. Competition between JAW and the factory was fierce. OMC was trying to get a turbo engine to run at Parker so the keen interest in the JAW project. Jim was also the prop man which lead to Turbo a few years later. That was 35 years ago!! Alan Stinson was Bob's driver with Alan's Stinson Eagle boat. Bob wanted a Turbo V6 when the V6 came out. The driver at that time was Kenny _______? Later killed in a race. Bob wanted Jim to develop the engine but not pay as you go. So Jim shelved the project and built "Turbo props".
Backfire

**T2x** · 06-06-2008, 08:41 AM

John:

I don't think that OMC dual is an E&T. I believe it was a Baja, and I think that Ken Stevenson ran a hull very much like it with a single before he got into the really big factory stuff.

T2x

**largecar91** · 08-07-2008, 12:20 PM

That's "Little Lake" in Peterborough at the " boat wash"!

**blkmtrfan** · 08-07-2008, 12:24 PM

Coll pic

Why does the "wing" have two different motors

**Mark Poole ModVP** · 08-07-2008, 03:51 PM

Looks like port side is Johnson Golden Meteor and starboard is Evinrude X 115. Those motors are most likely the same lower units so if it turned the same props with the same horsepower its no problem.

You know maybe he went to a Johnson dealer and got sponsorship, then went to an Evinrude dealer and did the same......double dip on one boat! Guess that would work until the dealer owners showed at the race!!

**T2x** · 08-07-2008, 04:17 PM

Now the bigger question.........

What Wing was that?

T2x

**Mark75H** · 08-07-2008, 04:43 PM

I bet it is the Thunderball

**T2x** · 08-08-2008, 07:15 AM

I am vaguely remembering that Spencer Dunn told me he raced a Wing at one time........... Could that have been him?\

and who was in 111?

T2x

**T2x** · 08-08-2008, 08:50 AM

Originally Posted by J. Sherlock

The Wing is Spencer Dunn, was owned by OMC, Canada.

Since I have obviously underestimated this race in an earlier post......... Who was in 111?

T2x

**Old fiberglass** · 08-11-2008, 09:13 AM

It's not Thunderbolt....it was always black. Looks to be the same color as Ted's wing. I heard a story about OMC actioning off a cream~yellowish colored 20' wing for $300~$400 in the late 70's to get rid of inventory. Spencer Dunn was a OMC guy wasn't he ??

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