Looking for 40 Cigarette 40

[pete60]

Originally Posted by ondawater

Just had a bit more of a read through searace and it appears that there was three slingshots', two 40' one of which was stretched to 44' as Richie has spoke about, and one 35'?
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I have just been reading through this thread.

Peter Dean had four Slingshots. He started with a 40 ft version in 1974, built a 35 ft boat in 1975, then built a light weight 39 ft version (based on the 40 ft hull ) which he took to the Worlds in 1977 and finally built a Dean Special ( a 44 ft hull based on a stretched 35').

The 40 ft was converted to pleasure cruiser in the late 1970s and was owned by Barry McMillan for a while. The 35 ft hull was also converted and, according to a recent thread, unfortunately was lost in a fire last year.

The 39 ft hull was bought by Brian Stevens and it was this hull that was mentioned by 7xChamp earlier in this thread, as breaking in half in a rough race on Port Phillip Bay in 1978 while driven by Barry McMillan.

Peter Dean ran the 44 ft hull in 1980 and 1981 before moving to the USA. He took the boat with him ( it ran at least a few races as Tosti Asti (?)) and the boat is still at his prop shop in Georgia.

[hallj]

Originally Posted by Top Banana

Roger raced with Mark and did not win any races...however in the summer of '76 he teamed up with Doc Magoon and ran in the Benihana out of NJ.

They won, but Magoon said afterward, that he had to keep slapping Penske's hands off the throttles as he wanted to run wide open all the time.

Magoon knew from experience that you only need to run as fast as will keep everyone else behind you. Be easy on the engines and they will be there when you need them....it worked.

Roger was on a, million things to do per day. schedule even back then...he didn't stay for the awards dinner, but took his Lear Jet and flew off for another engagement somewhere.

Mark built Don A an IROC Camaro for the street.....it was really cool...so naturally he wanted all his friends to have one too. Magoon had a red one, I had a silver one just like Don's ...but instead of the # 1 and the Cigarette logo, I had my racing number 6 and the banana logo on the spoiler. Photo below.

Richie remembers that back then, the offshore racers and the auto racers were very friendly and we moved back and forth in each other's venue all the time.

Emerson Fittipaldi was good friends with Don too. Jochen Mass and I became friends after Marlboro took me to Europe to help them come up with an offshore racing plan. He loves boats more than cars I think.

Here is Jochen and me at Sebring the year he won the 12 hours co-driving with Bobby Rahal and another photo at Daytona.

Is that the Bayside Disposal 962?

[Top Banana]

Originally Posted by hallj

Is that the Bayside Disposal 962?

Yes it is.....Jochen was loaned out by the Porsche factory to privateers....Bruce Levin being one of them.

[GB]

Originally Posted by buzmacdowell

I currently have the boat in my front yard ,and have had it for 26 years...it has quad 2.4 EFI mercs on it and is still in excellent condition ...It is all yellow with a black bottom currently..I only have a few pics that John Crouse sent me of it..If anyone has some pics I would be really interested in them...561 793 3520 Thanks, Buz

Hello Buz,

Any chance you've recieved or have current pics you can post?
Lots of great history in your boat that many would truly enjoy seeing.

Thank you in advance,

Gary