Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

[Bob V]

Congrats on 500 pages! I've enjoyed them all. Thanks Lars!

Yes, 500 is very noteworthy. There are only two threads with more pages. The leader is Fuji's, which lately has lost it's way and become the fishing thread, with 1285 pages. But here is where it gets interesting. You have 500 pages, but you also have 1,066,345 views. Fuji has 1285 pages with 1,189,465 views. This shows that you have more than twice the audience of the leading thread. You must be doing something right...

[lars strom]

Yes, 500 is very noteworthy. There are only two threads with more pages. The leader is Fuji's, which lately has lost it's way and become the fishing thread, with 1285 pages. But here is where it gets interesting. You have 500 pages, but you also have 1,066,345 views. Fuji has 1285 pages with 1,189,465 views. This shows that you have more than twice the audience of the leading thread. You must be doing something right...

Wow.. Bob V..Thanks
Not sure why but I love to save the OMC / Evinrude / Johnson racing history.
I don't have all the facts but telling it the way I remember things.
My memory is still pretty good but I don't have all the OMC inside stories. As a racer myself I was around at most overseas races in the seventies & eighties.
All the big ones like Paris, Amsterdam, Rouen, Como, Idroscalo, Bristol, London, Nottingham, Stockholm, Berlin, Rotterdam, Liege, Drammen, Chasewater, South Africa, Vishy, Cardiff, Brodenbach, Bahamas, Miami Marine Stadium, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and many more.
Outboards was also my main business during the same time. I still love the outboard business but don't have a horse in the race anymore.
When OMC "took the sign down" I completely lost interest in boat racing.
BRP did not change that and I think BRP was not in the Evinrude production business for the long run. ( now we know that was correct)
It is what it is..as long as I can add something to this thread I am going to do so.
Thanks for clicking in here.

[Bob V]

Wow.. Bob V..Thanks
Not sure why but I love to save the OMC / Evinrude / Johnson racing history.
I don't have all the facts but telling it the way I remember things.
My memory is still pretty good but I don't have all the OMC inside stories. As a racer myself I was around at most overseas races in the seventies & eighties.
All the big ones like Paris, Amsterdam, Rouen, Como, Idroscalo, Bristol, London, Nottingham, Stockholm, Berlin, Rotterdam, Liege, Drammen, Chasewater, South Africa, Miami Marine Stadium, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and many more.
Outboards was also my main business during the same time. I still love the outboard business but don't have a horse in the race anymore.
When OMC "took the sign down" I completely lost interest in boat racing.
BRP did not change that and I think BRP was not in the Evinrude production business for the long run. ( now we know that was correct)
It is what it is..as long as I can add something to this thread I am going to do so.
Thanks for clicking in here.

No need to thank me...the thanks go to you and all your viewers for making your thread the #1 read thread on S&F. Sure, Fuji's thread has more total views, but his thread has been around for 18 months longer than yours. If we do the math, you will see that you are #1 on Scream & Fly.

Currently Fuji has 1,189,527 views for his 57 months on S&F = 20.869 views per month.

You currently have 1,066,414 views for 39 months on S&F = 27,343 views per month.

It is not even close. You are clearly are the most read thread on Scream & Fly Outboard Racing History

[Bob V]

A piece of your past for sale...

https://www.ahlstrandmarine.com/prod...1929-2000.html

[powerabout]

20 years after OMC's demise, Mercury is still going strong. On the recreational side, if OMC had made engines as reliable as Yamaha's, they might still be in business.

On the recreational side, if OMC (Merc)had made engines as reliable as Yamaha's, they might still be in the (recreational ) business.[/QUOTE]
Does Yam sell like 20 engines to every Merc, seems like it?

[lars strom]

The Marlboro Man and ON World Champ 1975
The #1 Marlboro/Velden Racing/ Johnson V6 GP

[lars strom]

Dual spark plug cylinder heads for the OMC F1-V8 was available for anyone to purchase.

[lars strom]

The powerhead on the right use twin plugs cyl. heads.

[lars strom]

[lars strom]

We are ready for the Trump Boat Parade at Lake of the Ozarks today.

[lars strom]

This was a poster in the boating magazine Båt för Alla.
The race number 48 was from Paris 6 Hours 1974.
My yellow UIM SE class Clerici was also used for the Evinrude decal-sticker.

[lars strom]

Well..its 39 years ago now..

A fantastic day 35 years ago today.. September 19, 1981. A World Champion title and my son Richard was born.

http://svera.se/blogg/a-fantastic-day-35-years-ago-today-september-19-1981-a-world-champion-title-and-my-son-richard-was-born/

[Capt.Insane-o]

They could have gave you gas money

[Dave S]

6 men tooo lift it off the truck...…..

[lars strom]

They could have gave you gas money

Well..here is a long answer because most people living on this side of the Atlantic dont know this..

If you look at a map over Europe you can see Stockholm, Sweden is way up in the north Europe. Most of the 10 to 12 UIM OE/F3 races in the Aspen World series was run in central or southern Europe.
That means this little Swede must do a lot of travel to be part of the series.
Back in 1981 countries in Europe was still using their own currency, have their own borders with inspection before you could enter for example France or Italy.
After many years of traveling with a car and the race boat on a trailer I figure out a better way to do this.
This pick up truck was set up to try to bypass all the traveling difficulties..
Here is the advantage with my set up.
First..to leave south Sweden 1981 you must use a big ferry..Three options the one to Denmark, or the one to Germany or UK.
A pretty expensive trip if you have a trailer..with the pick up I pay for only one car.
Next thing was customs..with a trailer you must use the commercial entry in to every European country.. with my pick up I got away with using the car entry. Much easier and no Carne ATA document.
Even better was the speed limit..must countries have a max speed of 50 MPH ( 45 MPH in Sweden) with a trailer behind your car..
This "racing pick up" could run wide open on the famous Autobahn..I saved many hours driving much faster on my way to Italy for example.
Yes..there was two extra tanks on the pick up bed. One very large for gasoline and a smaller one for Methanol and yes I had sponsors for both gasoline and Methanol but I must do the fill ups in Sweden.
Back in 1981 a gasoline card for Sweden was not good in Germany etc.
This pick up was a big saver for me in many ways in 1981 when I won the Aspen World title.
I am not sure what I was doing in the first picture but could have been when I blow the pick up motor in Spain. We could not make it over the high mountains on three cylinders on the way back to Sweden. I was probably dumping the Methanol in the ditch do get over the mountains.
Back home I traded the blue pick up for a brand new red one with a lager cab.