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That would be kind of geh then......It's a 1 seater. lol
That would be kind of geh then......It's a 1 seater. lol
I'll ask Dave Sammons what the plans are for running it and let you know.
Nice to meet you. See you out next weekend on the strip.I am bummed that I missed seeing some of you guys! Great pictures as always Wheeler!
You should have shown up Joe! I had tickets for you.
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Oh hell no! When. I wake up to this every morning, you can have Parker!I wish. I'm buried in website work. My weekends are spoken for for awhile.
Although...
Someone is bugging me to make a quick trip. Will you be in MV this weekend?
I would really like to do that, but, it's not my boat.Sounds like a good excuse to bring it out to Billy's event in the end of September and run her
Figured it was time to tell one of my "Start up Stories".
I know this story is going to sound a little far fetched given the times we live in now, you would NEVER think of letting your sons do this!
But it was different times.
The year was 1974.
I was 14.
I grew up in Carlsbad(still live here) and we have a saltwater lagoon here that we all grew up skiing on.
The Landing where everyone launched was called Fox's after the owner John Fox.
It was a gathering place for Flatbottoms from San DIego and Orange Counties and nearly every Saturday or Sunday there would be 8-12 in the water. With skiing all day and Racing in the afternoons...Heaven for a young gear head!
Me along with a few others started driving and pulling skiers around at 12 and 13 years old, and in the evenings I usually got to make the last lap before putting the boat on the trailer which usually involved a speed run of some kind.
My family was typically on the water 3 times a week in the summoer and a couple days in the winter. The Lagoon was 2 miles from our house.
I'll have to do a thread about the place sometime!
Anyway we became ski racers and ran many laps around the lagoon practicing.
By the time I was 14 my Dad would send me out to go race the out of towners and he told them if they beat me, then he'd come drive! Boat ran a legitimate 100mph, but not much more.
So, It's the summer of 1974 and we were at Castle Rock where my Grandparents had a trailer.
I had another friend with me who was a year older and could drive pretty well too.
The parents always partied pretty hard, so we were allowed to put the boat in ourselves at daybreak, get my younger brother up to observe, idle out of the marina and strap on the Murdoch let the slack out of the 165 foot rope and go!
I would typically drive the first leg which was around 6:15 am.
We would run all the way from Castle Rock to Bluewater, Change skiers and head back. Note...this before the "Aussie Style" of having the handles wrapped around ya. Great workout!
My dad set a 5000 rpm limit on us so you can bet we stayed right at it. So it wasn't like it was a little 1/8 mile burnout, they could here us coming for a long time.
Can you imagine the number of 1 finger salutes we got! Don't forget, most everybody slept outside in those days!
We did it a number of times over the years and it will always be a fond memory of mine every time I look out on morning glass in Parker.
Here is our family Ski boat at Castle Rock.
Picture below that is me at 15(note date) registered under my Dad's name at Lake Ming(another great story you can ask me about over a beer at Foxes!)
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Oh...And we had quite a few other boats tied up at Castle Over the years...here's a few I could find...
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Hate when that happens.
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Conovay, it's for sale! Steel body, you need it!
Probably Rolf driving.
Great pics Dave! A time and place where the seeds of our disease were firmly planted.
Didn't you say there was something different about the way this engine runs?
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The Great Ronny Bolton told me onetime...
Those ads are super cool Jerry. Thanks for sharing!
That sucks.
It's real expensive to build a competitive Ford motor. It always seemed like half the cost to do a sbc.Yes it does especially since I warned him not to go down this road with a Ford.
Or...leave the boat on the trailer and work on that '37 for a bit
I heading out later today to hopefully strike a deal on a '69 Mustang.
I have a chopped and channeled 31 coupe i should be working on, a 65 Ranchero pro-street to reconfigure the chassis, and a 34 tudor after that...and yet in my shop I've been working on my 15yo's 83 Silverado It's just getting quick and dirty body work and a little shine. After that, I need to get some stuff moving through here to replenish the coffers from buiding the shopBoats getting a Buick motor fitted right now as I type. Trying to get it ready for Bakersfield next month.
You should buy the '37 and finish it off. I heading out later today to hopefully strike a deal on a '69 Mustang.
Cobra Jet?