Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

**WaterZebra** · 01-24-2019, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by lars strom

More from Stuart Jackson.
Tunnel built down under with Evinrude Super Stranger V4.

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This package must have been a handful to drive with a Strangler hanging on the back. A boat this size (14-15 ft?) would have been used for SE class racing in the states (APBA).

**lars strom** · 01-25-2019, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by WaterZebra

This package must have been a handful to drive with a Strangler hanging on the back. A boat this size (14-15 ft?) would have been used for SE class racing in the states (APBA).

Another boat that must have been a handful to drive..

**Lake X Kid** · 01-25-2019, 05:36 PM

I concur that the guy in the photo looks like James Beard. When I saw James at the Koblenz area boat race in 1973, he had long hair like that.

I was standing in the pit area next to the assembly of Mercury race boats, and James came by pushing his trailered boat towards his pit stall area. At the front of the boat steering the trailer was his beautiful blond girlfriend (and I stand corrected if that was his wife at the time). She was one of the prettiest girls that, I have ever seen in any pit area then and since.

As he labored by himself pushing his boat, passing in front of me I joined him. I got behind the sponson (starboard side) on the opposite side of the engine that he was pushing. And I started assisting him pushing the boat, without saying a word to James. And James looked at me with a quizzical look, and he didn’t say I word to me either. He accepted the gesture as given.

Rightly or wrongly, I assumed James to be a person of few words. And he didn’t say thank you (because he did not ask for my assistance) and I did not expect any from him. My outside observation of the OMC camp was that, James was more or less not an extrovert and coveted his private space.

Originally Posted by lars strom

Not sure who this is but think it’s James Beard.

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**lars strom** · 01-25-2019, 08:55 PM

G2 power.

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**lars strom** · 01-25-2019, 09:34 PM

G2 power.

**AZMIDLYF** · 01-26-2019, 01:14 AM

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**STEVERINO** · 01-26-2019, 07:13 AM

Originally Posted by Lake X Kid

I concur that the guy in the photo looks like James Beard. When I saw James at the Koblenz area boat race in 1973, he had long hair like that.

I was standing in the pit area next to the assembly of Mercury race boats, and James came by pushing his trailered boat towards his pit stall area. At the front of the boat steering the trailer was his beautiful blond girlfriend (and I stand corrected if that was his wife at the time). She was one of the prettiest girls that, I have ever seen in any pit area then and since.

As he labored by himself pushing his boat, passing in front of me I joined him. I got behind the sponson (starboard side) on the opposite side of the engine that he was pushing. And I started assisting him pushing the boat, without saying a word to James. And James looked at me with a quizzical look, and he didn’t say I word to me either. He accepted the gesture as given.

Rightly or wrongly, I assumed James to be a person of few words. And he didn’t say thank you (because he did not ask for my assistance) and I did not expect any from him. My outside observation of the OMC camp was that, James was more or less not an extrovert and coveted his private space.

The picture is James Beard and he was a quiet spoken man I raced against him from 1968 to 1976 and I cannot remember exchanging words with him now his partner in Cougar boats was Clive Curtis and he was a totally different person I always enjoyed his many conversations sadly James past away early in his life I think he was still in his 40`s he had Leukemia I even new your dad Roy I met him at race meeting in France when Mercury ran the BP race series engines.

**lars strom** · 01-26-2019, 10:19 AM

Gene Thibodaux was the first American UIM F1 World Champion 1986
Of course with Johnson F1-V8 power.

**lars strom** · 01-26-2019, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Lake X Kid

I concur that the guy in the photo looks like James Beard. When I saw James at the Koblenz area boat race in 1973, he had long hair like that.

I was standing in the pit area next to the assembly of Mercury race boats, and James came by pushing his trailered boat towards his pit stall area. At the front of the boat steering the trailer was his beautiful blond girlfriend (and I stand corrected if that was his wife at the time). She was one of the prettiest girls that, I have ever seen in any pit area then and since.

As he labored by himself pushing his boat, passing in front of me I joined him. I got behind the sponson (starboard side) on the opposite side of the engine that he was pushing. And I started assisting him pushing the boat, without saying a word to James. And James looked at me with a quizzical look, and he didn’t say I word to me either. He accepted the gesture as given.

Rightly or wrongly, I assumed James to be a person of few words. And he didn’t say thank you (because he did not ask for my assistance) and I did not expect any from him. My outside observation of the OMC camp was that, James was more or less not an extrovert and coveted his private space.

Thank you, I have some very nice pictures for your eye's only..