Hot Multi's - Pictures

[wogi]

All im hearing is crickets LOL

[Lake X Kid]

Built crash resistant.
Sorry tunnel boats you all cannot do this, without damaging your top-side.

The Switzer Wing is so symmetrical, that maybe with the outboard engines mounted inversely, the upside-down hull might achieve doing 80 mph.

[Lake X Kid]

Gold Coast Marathon results. The up leg to West Palm Beach, and the next day leg back to Miami.
Fiberglass Switzer Wings boat 804 & 802 showcase outboard power's speed, against a mixed field.

[Mark75H]

Built crash resistant.
Sorry tunnel boats you all cannot do this, without damaging your top-side.

The Switzer Wing is so symmetrical, that maybe with the outboard engines mounted inversely, the upside-down hull might achieve doing 80 mph.

As many times as I've seen this pic, I never noticed the anonymous men hiding their faces returning to the motel room and the fact that the motors are BP's

[willabee]

As many times as I've seen this pic, I never noticed the anonymous men hiding their faces returning to the motel room and the fact that the motors are BP's

Good eye ..... if I had to bet a nickel, I'd say left to right .... Boob Hetzel, Mike Goerlitz & Dick Paulson.

Since you have made me look closer, I think I also see a pair of 'Lake X added' turning fins?


Getting back to drivin' boats, I think I have mentioned most of the multi's that I was fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to run across the water. I didn't have or do anything special to get to drive them, it was simply timing ..... I happened to be in the right place at the right time. If it wasn't for Jimmy Kubasta, I would have never even been there, but that's a story for another time.

There were a few other fun rigs ..... a Switzer V with twin BP's for Habay to run at the Nationals, one of the first Dutchman twin tunnels Schoonover produced and the multiest of the 'Hot Multi's' ..... the infamous Six Pack

[GENE LANHAM]

As many times as I've seen this pic, I never noticed the anonymous men hiding their faces returning to the motel room and the fact that the motors are BP's

[Lake X Kid]

Let's just go back into the motel room. This is the new technique of draining water out of the engines.
Turn the engines vertically upside down and take the spark plugs out, and then let gravity do the rest.

[Lake X Kid]

804 you should of stayed at Lake X like your sister 802.

My guess is - when the boat is upside down in the water, and structural damage on the bottom side is vulnerably weak, then you trailer the boat bottom-side up.

If Mr. K saw this during his reign, albeit more than his cigars got chewed up. Somebody would get an ...
Oh they did take off the Mercury cowlings, somebody values their job.

[Lake X Kid]

[GENE LANHAM]

Ok been wanting to ask all youall this one question: Working on the racing side of Merc, was it better to work for MR K or the Brunswick corp?????

Mr. K knew all the best steak and beer joints in El Dorad0--

[lilabner]

Bill Cooper--Parker-1969--

Wish I had a good picture too--I took two--but I got the 'Ted May' from Ron H--

Sad --Bill Cooper passed away a few months later--He was entered at Havasu--1969



And a CHALLENGE for Willabee--Joe Habay Drove his 18' Jones???

Didn't Cooper run a Jones at Galveston 1969?

[willabee]

Didn't Cooper run a Jones at Galveston 1969?

Yes he did, the 18' twin he ran at Long Beach ..... won both races.

[GENE LANHAM]

And Petty---I followed that boat-a lot

[peterse90]

Not sure how many remember what I think was the one and only POWERBOAT Pictorial.

Perhaps relevant because it has this great picture for its era of Bill Cooper & the beautiful twin Jones.
This picture always 'stuck' with me as Bill Cooper looked like what I thought real boat racers should look like - tuff & serious.

[FUJIMO]