Quote Originally Posted by willabee View Post
If we're trying to be accurate ..... it was 1978, it was a Cosworth/Molinari and I wasn't there.

But, apparently you were! I wanted to be sure of the date, so I looked it up in Powerboat and found the article in the August, 1978 edition. John Crouse covered the June event which also included a big GN race, the Ancient Age Aqua Speed Classic!

Keith Duckworth was there to watch over his 183 in./450 HP (WOW) Cosworth/Ford making it's US debut. Crouse added that "countryman Jackie Wilson had been driving a similar rig in Europe classified as an outboard. According to Wilson who says the relative lightness of the engine and MerCruiser outdrive allows it to be lifted out as one unit, it's a legal outboard engine in Europe according to UIM rules".

If that's an outboard, ........
OK. OK. for crying out loud----so I was a year out of

sync after thirty five--NO BIG DEAL-----and it was a Molinari-----SO WHAT ????????

YOU AND G.G SCREWED THE KT CLASS INTO OBLIVION WITH THAT RIG---------OR DID I GET THAT WRONG TOO.

Still think the boat looks more like a Seebold than a Molli.

Mercury's monster top of the line 300 "OUTBOARD" of today probably weighs more than my Cosworth outboard.

How does the APBA designate "AN OUTBOARD"???????
and should i care or not ?????

TITTER YE NOT OF THE LOWLY 450 HP------------THE VERY SAME LUMP IN F1 TRIM WAS PULLING OVER 700 HP IN 1979 AND OVER 1,000 HP.TODAY.

Just one last aside-------Even Crouse made things up, and 'winged' it a little, the bit about lifting the whole shebang out as a unit was as close as his statement got, [but then you knew that didn't you William].

You were always "THERE" so what happened that day-----i know you worked on most of the cosworth experimental stuff----i took you and GG to the factory in Northampton myself----------{didn't I] ????