Top Banana

We seem to have a lot of other brands that have been or are being restored, but no 28 foot Donzi's???....that was a such a great race boat there must be some of them around somewhere.

We just had a new member send us the story and photos of his restoration on the first boat that Don ever raced called..The Cigarette...it was a Formula 233 and it was a single engine 409 cu in.

Check it out on the HORBA website under the section called member's boats.

www.historicraceboats.com

Scott B

J&KShabas on the Donzi board are redoing one.. It will be spectacular when he is done I am sure after seeing his other boats..

h2oboater

In my back yard I have a 28', my brother bought back in 1972 in Port Huron Mi the guy claimed it was the Blue Devil he also said this boat sank in Miami to Nassau race back in the 60's.
The Donzi was powered at that time with twin 440 Chrysler engines with v drives, , originally it was to have had 409 Turbo Daytona's??? It dose look like it had many change's !!! On the Donzi web site some one also has a Donzi that's was to be the Blue Devil that they are restoring,, Our's may not be the real one but could be some one's old race boat. It dose need some TLC. Hope to have it back to it's original shape soon. IT"S BIG BLUE AND COOL!!!
Will try to post a pic soon.

Top Banana

Any photos that you have of a restoration process, please send to the historic website of HORBA at www.historicraceboats.com and we will be very happy to post those for you.

Also please join as a member..... it is free and you don't actually have to own a historic boat to be a member, just have an interest in the old race boats.

Scott B

Early resto pic..

I believe it will hit the water this spring.. Twin 502's now, updated V drives etc. John is a true fanatic, the boat will be unbelievable when he finishes...

WA-LO

Hi everyone, Scott thanks for posting pics of my boat.

My 28 will be done this spring!!! be it late spring!

I just joined this site I dont no what took me so long.

I joined theHORBA site also. I will post more pics soon I

might need to e-mail them and let some else post for me

my Nikon D1x is not letting me down size the file. I t looks like

I might be taking on a other 28' Donzi raceboat restoration

2-Holman Moody 427s !!! this spring!!! all I can say about that

for now..You know Im a ford nut and have collected alot of HM

stuff over the years.. Cant wait Love all the history on HORBA

keep up the good work!!

John Shabas
Email [email protected]

cuda

Can't wait to see it John. If it's anything like your Hornet, it will be awesome. Catch 22 and I were talking on the phone this morning about Way Lo, even Debbie jumped in on my conversation with Jim saying how much she love that ride in your Hornet.

Are you still in St Pete? I thought I read something about you being out west somewhere.

WA-LO

Hey Cuda , we still live in St pete bch. but my buis. is in
California/Arizona so I comute about once a month.
We havent done much boating this year but I can tell you thats gonna change!!! WA-LO is still as dependable . My 28
will be done in late april and back in Fla. !!!! Cant wait.
Say Hi to Deb for me. See ya soon !!!

cuda

Hope you make it to Mt Dora again this year.

WA-LO

Im coming and staying at the holiday inn express. That place
was nice. might even have my corsican runnin by then.