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**willabee** · 05-21-2012, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by T2x

Yes ...............and there is also a lot of footage from Europe including Jackie Wilson dancing around and you looking like David Niven on the banks of the Seine......

That footage is from 1970. The easiest way for me to remember the year is that a number of cowbells ran at Havasu in 1970, icluding Merten, Wilson, & Miles, and were never heard from again.

That's Jimmy Kubasta & Boob Hetzel in the safety boat changing the props and recording the test data. I'm not sure, but it might be Elmer Nord driving the boat. Just another beautiful sound coming from Lake Butte des Morts on a sunny Wisconsin afternoon.

I think Dick Snyder was aiming the camera for most of what you're looking at. He caught Jackie doing a little grinding on his moneybelt in Molinari's shop and recorded his best imitation of the Icky Shuffle!

**STEVERINO** · 05-22-2012, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by willabee

.....I just love it when that happens!

Olegator & Peterse90 ..... .....

Olegator, being the King of Karaoke, you of all people should know:

You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind,
You don't pull the mask off of the old Lone Ranger
and you don't try to out guess Willa Slim!

1972 Amsterdam, pretty sure the power would be the C6.

anybody like to guess who had the 1st T11X engine in the uk?

**willabee** · 05-23-2012, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by OLEGATOR

Willabee, did you forget, I ran a cowbell on the 16' sprint afterwords?

Yup, I sure did ..... I want to say that yours was the only one running anywhere, but we may have packed a few up and shipped to other countries. I know we went through a little confusion a while back with the boys in Canada, they all thought they were running cowbells! One of them even posted these pics to prove cowbells were running up north.

**peterse90** · 05-23-2012, 10:38 AM

Those pictures of Barry Taylor #177 I think were originally posted by Mark Rotharmel and were taken at Havasu 1972.
I think that is a Merc Twister what I call a 'silo', but not a çowbell'.
Mark would know better, but I think the boat is a Burns. I think the same Burns that Andre Savard drove here in Canada in 1973 with a Twister II and had a horrific crash with in Picton.
In 1973 Barry Taylor drove for Lorne Pinel.

**willabee** · 05-23-2012, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by peterse90

Those pictures of Barry Taylor #177 I think were originally posted by Mark Rotharmel and were taken at Havasu 1972.

I think that is a Merc Twister what I call a 'silo', but not a çowbell'.

Well, well well .... after all these years, someone from the northern country finally got it right!

Silo ..... cowbell

**mark benson** · 05-23-2012, 02:49 PM

Well, thanks a lot, Mr. Willabee! LOL! Mark Benson Producer "Tunnel Boat Racing in the "70's", from beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada!

Originally Posted by willabee

Well, well well .... after all these years, someone from the northern country finally got it right!

Silo ..... cowbell

**Bob V** · 05-23-2012, 03:15 PM

As I "remember" the Twister 1 and the Cowbell Twister were very similar except that the Twister 1 had the exhaust exiting down the silo and then routed into the chambered midsection. It has a 3/4" brass elbow on the bottom of the silo where the cooling water exited. The Cowbell Twister had two different length stacks (cowbells) directly at the bottom of the silo where the exhaust and the cooling water exited together.

As far as noise goes. the 1350 BP stackers will always be on the top of my list, closely followed by the Cowbell twister. The Twister 1 almost sounded like it had a muffler compared to the other two. God I miss those days....

**willabee** · 05-23-2012, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by mark benson

Well, thanks a lot, Mr. Willabee! LOL! Mark Benson Producer "Tunnel Boat Racing in the "70's", from beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada!

WoW! ..... Lookie there folks, two of them have aroused from the annual seven month snore ..... and this one woke up talking!

**mark benson** · 05-23-2012, 05:56 PM

We are hosting a Pacific Northwest OFF 2012, in Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada, on the weekend of June 15th & 16th! Your best buddy, Jackie Wilson, is coming across the pond, from Great Britain, to attend! We completed the video Havasu 1969 (Nordskog footage) & posted it on Youtube, GoseeTV & Tunnel Boat Racing in the '70's! We have some Nordskog footage of 1970 Paris 6 Hour & Berlin 6 Hour! We you there, that year?

Originally Posted by willabee

WoW! ..... Lookie there folks, two of them have aroused from the annual seven month snore ..... and this one woke up talking!

**shadowcat** · 05-23-2012, 06:15 PM

FYI-switzerland has more cows with bells than canada, eh!

**willabee** · 05-24-2012, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by mark benson

We are hosting a Pacific Northwest OFF 2012, in Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada, on the weekend of June 15th & 16th! Your best buddy, Jackie Wilson, is coming across the pond, from Great Britain, to attend! We completed the video Havasu 1969 (Nordskog footage) & posted it on Youtube, GoseeTV & Tunnel Boat Racing in the '70's! We have some Nordskog footage of 1970 Paris 6 Hour & Berlin 6 Hour! We you there, that year?

Another good reason to stay out of Canada ..... Wilson's going to be in it!

Yes, I was at Havasu in 69 and Paris & Berlin in 70. There's probably some footage featuring my back in that film. On the other hand, T2x took a shot at me saying he saw someone that looks like David Niven standing on the banks of the Seine in the 1970 Paris film. However, I didn't respond to his little jab because it probably wasn't me he was looking at. I say that because I just don't see how it would be possible to show up in Italy looking like Robert Redford, then arrive in Paris three weeks later looking like David Niven.

I rest my case!

**T2x** · 05-24-2012, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by STEVERINO

anybody like to guess who had the 1st T11X engine in the uk?

no.....

**T2x** · 05-24-2012, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by willabee

Another good reason to stay out of Canada ..... Wilson's going to be in it!

Yes, I was at Havasu in 69 and Paris & Berlin in 70. There's probably some footage featuring my back in that film. On the other hand, T2x took a shot at me saying he saw someone that looks like David Niven standing on the banks of the Seine in the 1970 Paris film. However, I didn't respond to his little jab because it probably wasn't me he was looking at. I say that because I just don't see how it would be possible to show up in Italy looking like Robert Redford, then arrive in Paris three weeks later looking like David Niven.

I rest my case!

Okay.....I apologise....you didn't look like David Niven.....in retrospect it was more like Rock Hudson....... Fortunately the races didn't take place in Greece or at a British boy's boarding school.

**willabee** · 05-24-2012, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by STEVERINO

anybody like to guess who had the 1st T11X engine in the uk?

I don't know. It would have been 1974, so you'd think the obvious answer is Spalding since he was just returning home from his one year stint in the states as one of the four Stars & Stripes Team Molinari's.

Who got the first one?

Bob's Team Merc PR photo, Bob with Jimbo & Posey at St. Louis, Hering's Stars & Stripes Molinari on the cover of Powerboat.

**STEVERINO** · 05-24-2012, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by T2x

no.....

Just a thought that there may still be some well travelled ex Mercury personel and even drivers still with excellent memories and still young looking` that had heard of a UK driver by the name of Freddi Miles passed on now but new him well 40yrs ago.I think GG gave him the engine to upset the other T11 drivers`1st time out he won the Chasewater 500 mile race lapped the other drivers a few times would have been about Jackie Wilsons age now.