Tricks that old racers get up to after retirement

[jackiewilson]

View of the herb garden and potting shed from the kitchen window .
Well, at least it shows a touch of diversity?

[STEVERINO]

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Lousy photograph of first run out with the Torriggia at Chasewater ,
Worth showing as there’s not many pictures of Jeremiah Cetti’s original Tunnel.
World still thinks there was only Molinari into tunnels. I know that’ just not so.

Looking at the large crowds in the picture it looks like the Chasewater 24hr race 1967 i think the race started at 4 oclock you ran a 110 hp mercury you were out of the race by nightfall with engine troubles.The tunnel boats of that time were always big boats and looked quiet heavy and on the short circuits the v boats were usually faster with the low power available.

[jackiewilson]

Looking at the large crowds in the picture it looks like the Chasewater 24hr race 1967 i think the race started at 4 oclock you ran a 110 hp mercury you were out of the race by nightfall with engine troubles.The tunnel boats of that time were always big boats and looked quiet heavy and on the short circuits the v boats were usually faster with the low power available.

You got the wrong boat Steve. It was a Jones KT thar I bought off Garbrecht with a KEITH Black lump in it . It ran with the best but was no faster, due to the fact I only got into the country the day before. Simply didn’t find a prop that would suit the rig. Bill Brown and I ran it, think it dropped a valve quite early on. Picture is more likely to be at the Boatbuilders trials or the Regent cup. Remember the Torrigia was the only tunnel boat in the country at that time, there were no others!

[jackiewilson]

Cimbing rose “Gertrude Jeckiyll has over sixty blooms coming , it sets the pergola off a treat!

[AZMIDLYF]

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[jackiewilson]

Jeremiah Cetti’s TORRIGGIA Tunnel of the same year !
The Paris boat!
To this day, I am still convinced it was ahead of the Molinari!
Torrigia factory was miles ahead in the factory itself on the lake.
Afraid I can’t tell you how come Cetti lost his factory. Or how Molinari acquired it.
Never once saw Angelo up there, he stayed at the old factory in Como where Fuji’s picture of the four “Magnum “ looking boats was taken. Cetti’s builders were taken on when Mercury bank rolled the Torriggia deal. As I said, I don’t know if Rolla could tell me, once he’s out of hospital.

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You got the wrong boat Steve. It was a Jones KT thar I bought off Garbrecht with a KEITH Black lump in it . It ran with the best but was no faster, due to the fact I only got into the country the day before. Simply didn’t find a prop that would suit the rig. Bill Brown and I ran it, think it dropped a valve quite early on. Picture is more likely to be at the Boatbuilders trials or the Regent cup. Remember the Torrigia was the only tunnel boat in the country at that time, there were no others!

Ray Bulman has you in the 1967 Chasewater 24hr race in the Torriggio cat covering 933 laps coming 2nd to Bob May in Mayvee. Your co drivers were Colli Coulson and Aurther Brown.I can also remember the Torrigio cat in the world of sport television series from Ivor heath.

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[jackiewilson]

Ray Bulman has you in the 1967 Chasewater 24hr race in the Torriggio cat covering 933 laps coming 2nd to Bob May in Mayvee. Your co drivers were Colli Coulson and Aurther Brown.I can also remember the Torrigio cat in the world of sport television series from Ivor heath.

Can only say sorry Steve, I’d forgotten that, what’s more I tend to forget second places, and even now after you jogged my memory, I still can’t recall the race.
It must have been the only tunnel boat in the race. Bob and John May were top dogs in the Double M Levi 16.
Bulman was always honest in his reporting, syndicated around the world, but not always deadly accurate. Him and me were always disagreeing about something or other. He was always more interested in offshore than circuit. But was the only reporter worth reading.Nigel Riley was a waste of a good skin and permanently pissed.
Dropped a soap dish in the shower on to my leg whilst racing in the south of France. Three days later I broke out with SEPTICAEMIA and was hospitalised, the night before the TV event.
Commentator was Cliff Miichelmore , I tried to show him how to drive it, but he didn’t even manage to get it on plane. He was a lovely man married to Jean Metcalfe .
Nobody else had ever driven the Torriggia so it was sidelined for the final event.
Arthur Brown always had a big Mercury and let me race it at Iver. We won the XU class in Paris together.
Collie Coulson was a second hand car dealer in Hove. Bought a 16’ Levi and was quite successful with it. Strange I can’t remember the event, something must have happened to make me erase the memory!

[jackiewilson]

My eldest daughter Sandra. Morning after I arrived back home with the three Torrigia’s.

[techteam]

Ok my book title suggestion is "Blood Is Thicker Than Water" which covers the fact that you think some of your compatriots are as close as family, a lot of blood was spilled and you race on water.

[jackiewilson]

Ok my book title suggestion is "Blood Is Thicker Than Water" which covers the fact that you think some of your compatriots are as close as family, a lot of blood was spilled and you race on water.

Been through hundreds of titles TT ! THE WONDER YEARS OF BOATING—— BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES WITH A BOAT, ——ITS A DUESEY OF A LIFE. ——- MEN, BOATS AND THEIR MOTORS!
Family of powerboaters and their families and friends!
None of them have actually come out and smacked me in the mouth yet, but one day before I get it finished it will.
It took RON Hill years ( ten, I think ) to write his book , I don’t have that sort of time left, so I need to get a wriggle on!
Still managing to churn out a thousand words plus each and every day.
Determined to get between four and five hundred pages for the finished article.
Maybe another five hundred for book two ! WILSONS bible of boating ???? I still have ambition in spades.!