Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

[jackiewilson]

Wow, you know Ecky from MTU !!

OK. OK. So Dickie B got a gong too!

[jackiewilson]

Clocks go back tonight----British summer time is over. Seems like just a couple of weeks since they wound the damn clock forward, guess that's what happens when you board that express called life, just hang on until it slows down a little, then jump for your life, not many times you get to be able to do that.
I did get a couple of hours in the shop today----- managed to finish the white offshore tunnel-------concocted a superb mount for it, found a couple of milled mounts that had been skulling around in the scrap box for ever-----then WHAM, ----this idea for putting the two together and making a whole suddenly slapped me between the eyes.
Show you tomorrow once the paints dried-------me and wet paint don't take kindly to each other, so it's best left alone until it's dried out.

[jackiewilson]

So,------Hamilton needs just five points to win his fourth Championship---------but, hang on a minute, isn't there still three races to go ? Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear---------that will never do!
Watch for the "oddity" today--------Bernie would never let this happen--------can't have the championship decided with two rounds left. I just wonder what's been fixed----- ?

[jackiewilson]

Came across this in a box of bits and bobs that came back back from France six years ago, and it's a box of gear that left England in 2000 -------oil must be purer than the first olive pressing. Did have the tube of green grease that Valvoline produced exclusively for Mercury until a month ago----used the last of it
Ken Hudnell used to race the "VALVOLENE" boat out of Louisiana-------Mark and Ken raced that Seebold hull in Ironton ! Any of you old farts remember it ?
Ken had a daughter VANESSA---------she was aged 11 ----going on 23 in the early 70/ s.

[jackiewilson]

I got boats coming out of my ears again, was going to send em to Mark-----just to see if any of the old farts might have been interested, either at the OFF meeting or down at Key West. He wasn't that interested either----- so I didn't bother!
If anyone out there is remotely interested in anything you've seen, give me a call, or better still -----make me an offer--------

[Rotary John]

Jackie: The wood boat in the background of picture #1. How is its size compared to the rotary engine you made for me. Possible I could mount the rotary to its "bum"?
your rotary friend
John

[jackiewilson]

Remember what I told you about the whole bloody F1 set up-----maybe now you will believe it-------no script could have been written better.
Bernie of course would have made it last until the penultimate round------but he's a lot more streetwise than the present ringmaster!
Can you imagine the odds on predicting that finish. I'd heard it said in the Far East a long time ago that the Far East gambling syndicates ran Formula One Racing
Verstappen to win.
Bottas second
Raikonan third.
Vettel fourth

Hamilton ninth and still wins his fourth championship.Imagine the odds you could have got on that
About a million to one-----at least.
I suspected the whole set up was being orchestrated a few years back, Did I not forecast an "Oddity" this morning ? Well my friends, results don't come much ODDER than this one.
Never in a million years would Ferrari allow Raikonan to finish third and Vettel Fourth-------any bookie in the world would give you 50-1 on that !
Hamilton to finish 9 th while still running a healthy car ------- virtually impossible 40-1.
Drivers earn more than movie stars so they do what their told------- or is this just a crazy old loon having a bad day. Tell you now-------I'm not crazy----- and I'm in good health ------for now!!!!!!!

[jackiewilson]

Jackie: The wood boat in the background of picture #1. How is its size compared to the rotary engine you made for me. Possible I could mount the rotary to its "bum"?
your rotary friend
John

Would fit there nicely Johnno-------remember how little the boat looked with the Rotory on its bum when it first turned up .
you couldn't mistake it for anything othe than an "OFFSHORE BOAT" . Although I say it myself, it's a gem of a boat, really good looking. It started out as "MONA LOU" for Odell, but it came out with much nicer lines than the short fat stumpy little fecker he did the Bahamas 500 in
Dont think you ever ran the Rotory offshore-------you really could have got into Carl's knickers big time if you had-------he would just about died of a sh- t fit there and then.
Shape is a cross between outer limits and Fountain----------what you really want is a full tunnel Scotti like hull. You never asked me for one before, and anyway you still owe me a bottle of single malt.

[jackiewilson]

Johnno---- how 'bout I send the boat to John You send him the Rotory and let him finish it. The man has the magic touch.

[GENE LANHAM]

Wow, you know Ecky from MTU !!

Eckie taught me everything I know about the 16V-396-TB94


He didn't teach me everything he knows!!

[jackiewilson]

Gene-------do any of us ever tell anyone "EVERYTHING" we know-------think about it, I can tell you categorically that my life would have been over many years ago if "EVERYTHING" I've ever done was made public. I don't tell lies? -------I just manipulate the truth to my advantage ?

I hung on until the last minute before it was made clear, I will not be at the old farts gathering this year-------there are "MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES" --------too numerous to mention.
Would love to hear Odells account of telling CK to "get the feck off my boat" just one more time-------maybe next year.

[techteam]

Eckie taught me everything I know about the 16V-396-TB94


He didn't teach me everything he knows!!

Never a more truthful statement. Kind off miss my old MTU's and Ecky grumbling round the engine room.

[jackiewilson]

Wandering around like a lost sheep in a snow covered swamp this morning-----the grandchild minder has left me a Cornish pasty and a jar of mango chutney for my lunch, whilst she has swanned off to Marwell Zoo for the day with Lizzie and daughter Catherine . Unsteady on the old pins today----- been warned off playing with machines for a while although the index finger is working tolerably well so I could be a tad annoying today.

[jackiewilson]

Bob, you have to teach me "how" ? me and my youngest quaffing Verve Clique whilst boulling on the beach last Saturday !

[jackiewilson]

Benny, is that the same 42' lightning from 2007 ?
The same mould that "King of Shaves" and Cat Killercame out of?
Have you done that one in carbon + ?

Thought the American market was either Centre console with Four or five biggest you can buy outboards --------or forty plus foot tunnels with a pair of 1250/ 1500 hp Mercury inboards with high shine ---go fast shoes ?
Still looks pretty I have to say.