** Rabco Powerboats / Rabe Photo Collection - Batch Three **

**PARKER RABE** · 07-20-2016, 12:10 PM

I think I have a lot more shots of that race that will be coming out and batch number 4

**Scream And Fly** · 07-20-2016, 02:52 PM

Thank you everybody, and thank you Parker - these photos are amazing.
I am not even halfway through this. Many, many more to come.

Greg

**Mark75H** · 07-20-2016, 08:27 PM

Thank you Greg, these are great. I appreciate the work that goes into this.

**Scream And Fly** · 07-20-2016, 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by Mark75H

Thank you Greg, these are great. I appreciate the work that goes into this.

Thank you Sam, I'm really happy to see everybody enjoying these. As much as I am fascinated with the history of these images, I'm equally motivated to preserve them. Once all of them are scanned, I'm going to catalog and organize them as close as possible by date and category, then I will place them all in one location so these images won't be spread among many posts. I have many more to go.

Greg

**FUJIMO** · 07-21-2016, 11:55 AM

...Caroline & Donzi...Named after the two girls in Randy's life...

**FUJIMO** · 07-21-2016, 12:04 PM

...nice shot...this must be the copied/stretched 23 Sanger that the guy won't sell you, sitting in his front yard, correct? Only one made...

**AZMIDLYF** · 07-21-2016, 12:07 PM

That's the one. Parker posted a pic of it in another thread knee deep in the weeds on it's trailer.

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**FUJIMO** · 07-21-2016, 12:12 PM

Great photo of Don Schwebb, aka Schwebby, take'n a lunch/beer break. Classic. Beer(root) did'nt always come in aluminum cans... 1968 BP's, BP gearcases, BP 12" props..."Come-Along" winch holding the boat down(strap tie-downs invented much later)...Wolverine Castings/Marine trim tabs utilizing Mercury inline trim cylinders plumbed backwards...So much go'n on in this one photo...and its one of the clear photo's to boot. Excellent.

**Scream And Fly** · 07-21-2016, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by AZMIDLYF

That's the one. Parker posted a pic of it in another thread knee deep in the weeds on it's trailer.

What a shame. I need to contact the owner and get photos of it. Parker, do you think he will let me uncover that boat and photograph it?

Also, does this building still exist:

**FUJIMO** · 07-21-2016, 12:27 PM

...A fairly clear photo for the times. I love it when someone says there were no 1350 BP motors. Both racers and consumers had fun with them...

**FUJIMO** · 07-21-2016, 12:31 PM

...Those poor motors probably wished they never started, lol...

**FUJIMO** · 07-21-2016, 12:35 PM

...looks like Ozona...

**FUJIMO** · 07-21-2016, 12:37 PM

...always liked black & whites...back then, they were actually clearer film than color...

**FUJIMO** · 07-21-2016, 12:41 PM

...Complete re-rig, for one big single engine & drive. Guess what it was?...

**FUJIMO** · 07-21-2016, 12:49 PM

...This Aronow hull was one of the nicest designs & sizes ever made. The 27/28 was very versatile as both an I/O, or an O/B... Bikini's were still considered too riske' for these times...