The lake was flat, you think they were looking for a little air for the camera ????

Butch
 

Butch, did your son follow in your footsteps into the trucking business? Hope so. I remember him being a boat nut also years ago.

Yes, The Dummy, He Works For Me. Tried To Have Him Do Something Else, But He Wanted To Be The Third Generation In This Damned Business

Last I knew(years ago), Dave was in the boat transportation business at the G.I. Navy Base property. Whats/hows he doing these days?

Lady L
 

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Attachment 313946YEAH, SHE NEEDS SOME WORK... I BOUGHT HER LATE THIS PAST SUMMER, GOING TO TRY AND BRING HER BACK TO HER FORMER GLORY.
LOOK FOR HER BACK IN ACTION SUMMER OF 08' IN P-5!

Congrats, keep us posted on the project.
Where will she be running?

Opa/sbi
 

Thanks,

We Plan On Running P-5 With The Opa, And Maybe A Couple Races With The Sbi. We Would Have To Run P-4 With The Sbi Though. We'll Have To She How She Runs Once Dialed In This Spring. Got Her All Stripped Down Right Now, I'm In The Process Of Building Some New Fuel Tanks, And Replacing The Floor And Few Bulkheads. For Her Age, And The Action She Has Seen Over The Years, Structually, She Is In Really In Good Shape. Besides The Floor, The Rest Of The Actual "boat" Restoration Will Be Mostly Cosmetic, Exterior Paint & Fiberglass Work. The Motors That Came With Her Were Not The Race Engines, Just Some Old Crate Engines 350/300hp's. They Are Being Replaced With Two 600hp Sbc's, Built In House Here At Custom Performance Marine.

I have hit the MOTHER LOAD of MAGNUM pic's, THANK's to Kevin and Jack Mathes owner of Emerald City Harbor. Home of most of the Magnums that raced Back in The Day from Lake St Clair. These pic's are from there collection.
Most are Magnums, from the early 70's, that I will post on the Magnum site, but there are some other cool pic's.

Dave Is Still Hauling Boats, He Had A Bout With Cancer 2 Yrs Ago But Apparently He's Out Of The Woods Now And Feels Pretty Good.

VintageOffshore,
Did you catch this picture of 28' Magnum White Knight? Looks like indeed had #124 at one time :drink:

One more from the way back around 1973, The Griffin owned By Fred Alter who was a Unlimited Hydro driver in the 50 & 60's. With it's stepped hull and turbo 409cu Daytona's it was different. It raced in the very first races on Lake St Clair.

Here's a few my mother took on my fathers boat back in the day! :cool-smiley-011:

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that's enough for now..... :drink:

The Griffin was originally "Grifo" (Italian for Griffin), Designed by Bob Hobbs, owned and raced by Carlo Roncallo, Sr., originally in 1965 Gateway Marathon, West Palm Beach to Lucaya and back.

here is a few.......
 

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Thanks BROWNIE for the info, I think She went back to Florida, and was for sale in the 80's there.

I believe these pic's are from a 1973 race in Miami.

Sabre Dance is Lance Taines, Boar Hog is Juan Fernandez of Nassau, Bahamas.

Boy that photo of Boar Hog really draws a line between the Mags and the Panteras huh?

Check out these vintage race programs which coincide with the earlier pix...first one is from the '73 Sam Griffith. These guys did it right!.....crushed velvet covers with gold dividers & tassels, not to mention handicaps, remarks & open calcuttas. Love the remarks for Hanks' # 36....could be the new name of the old Fayva Cig if H20boater gets off his wallet!?

I believe this was the first time the Michigan Boys went on the offensive and tangled with the OPBRA bunch in the P classes.....

The '74 line-up....note the Ladies Race Division

...rest of the '74....lotta legends in this one.

Interesting that stern of Cigarette / Cary? to the right. Very probable that deal with a former Black Tornado.
Just in the 1973 runs a 32' ex BT driven by Mark Raymond....

I thought that stern may get some attention to what it might be.

Three different AEROMARINE'S that raced on Lake Erie around 1973 to 75.

Now thats a real treat, thanks for sharing.

Marco: I am pretty sure the transom to the right is the back end of Roger Penski`s 40` Cigarette Sunoco DX It was one of the only boats around with Blue hull and Yellow deck, also has the Patterson side exhaust. I speak with Lance Taines regularly, his father lives in Ft. Laud. he lives in L.A. he syill has the fever. Mark Raymond AKA Big Dirty used to throttle for Bob Higgins in the 32` Cig. Snoopy ex: Broadjumper etc.
7XCHAMP

If my memory serves me correctly, and I was there at the time with Kiek. and tested both Cigs while working for ECK in Fond du lac. There were only two 36` Cigs for Magoon, the third boat in the picture right hand upper corner, I am pretty sure is a Memco built by Mabry Edwards for Kiek, a copy of the 36` Cig. The only other Cig. Kiek. had was a 40` which became Diamond Don, and ran the first true Kiek. drives, which should now have historical significance for the fact that the upper gear hsg. was locked straight and the lower gear case steered, They were the prelim. to the first number six drives. I built and tested the 40` with those drives along with Mel Riggs. I remember when we first tested the boat, we could not control it, it was a wild crazy ride. Eventually we found the problem, which was the fact that the helm we used was to quick, only about 3 turns lock to lock which meant we were over steering the boat, we changed the helm to slower and more turns and the boat ran perfect, hands off. Back then is when we were inventing the true power steering as we know it today, Prior we used dual ride guide cables with a power assist slave on one side, which was a derivitive of the power steering units from cars. 7XCHAMP

Phil found another picture of your 36' Bertram, I like your color matching tow truck,, COOL !!

29-9
 

h2oboater...do you think that #666 was another of the 29"9s,sure looks like one???? Bud

Bud I can't say , here is a fuzzy pic of your Mag by the hoist, and one more of the AEROMARINE II, she looks bigger than 30'.

H2O: the Aeromarine boat #666 is actually a Memco copy of the old 32` Bertram model stretched to 36` it was custom made for Carl Kiek. way back, It sat in the barn at Fond du lac for years, I was incorrect in one of my posts when I said it was a pop of the 36` Cig. I know the boat I was there, if you look at the strakes curving up in the front you will see the Bertram lines. Not to be confused with the later 38` Bertrams, totally different beast. I think Gil Lieber had something to do with the project and the actual owner was Sonny ????????? don`t remember last name, but Gil Lieber was close friends with Carl K. and used to visit frequently, I think they got the boat for next to nothing, it was built by Mabry Edwards in St. Augustine. 7XCHAMP

Oh yeah! I had forgotten the Sunoco DX! I think you are right Richie.

I knew the Sabre Dance for a black and white photo only; now thanks to h2oboater I can see how much that boat was beutiful!

You Guys are on to somthing,, Along with the box of all these great pictures I have on loan that I have been posting, there are some super 8 home movies of some 1973 races. In one race it looks like the Captian,, Roger Penske at the wheel of the Sunoco DX at a Ohio race. Did the 1973 Sam Griffith race start along the Miami beach ????? Because one of the movies has a GREAT 40+ boat start along the beach.

h20boater,please,anyone pics of the two Dante's Inferno(#89 and #98) and Black Tornado in 1973?!

H20: Roger used to run with the late great Mark Donahue in that 40, also ran with Magoon and I think maybe Gene Lanham. Jay Signore of IROC fame used to maintain the boat, Jay was also big fan of Aronow and Cig. He had a 28` Cig. maybe even still has it, I bet he does. Aronow was great friends to that whole group, That`s why he had the IROC Camaro`s as well as Magoon, and believe me they had the hot set-ups in those cars, I drove Magoons once and was incredible, wish I had one today to play with. 7XCHAMP