Evidently when they measured the boat they measured from the transom to the nose, so I presume the back of the extension where Daryl sat was considered the end of the transom or the bottom, and they actually added a beak to the nose for the extra few inches needed to be legal. Must be where Reggie got his idea from with the Fountain Beak`s. Cooper ran a monster motor in the thing, when he ran, all you could see was spray, really wet boat, I saw back in the forums that Brownie had gone for a ride in the thing. I was in the race, I think it was Miami Nassau, when they showed up with the boat for the first time, sure got a lot of attention, Cooper was a maniac driving the boat, and poor old Daryl used to hang on to his fake steering wheel for dear life, not sure if it was that race or not, but in one of the race`s, Daryl actually had his clothes ripped off his body, I think he finished in his scivvies.
Bill Cooper also ran the Salton Sea 500`s in the OPC days, semi sponsored by Kiekhaefer Mercury, Think he ran a ron Jones tunnel with triple stacker 135 hp mercs. Complete wild man, and all around great guy, reminded me of another crazy, Roger Hanks with the Blonde boats, that`s another story.

Here are PTM Express , Canada Homes and East Coast Marine .
I always wondered what happened to that 32 Superboat . I had heard it was sold to someone in the Middle East .

The [Come Again] Nova
 

Here is a Wellcraft Nova that raced in the mid 70's in the Great Lakes region. The Come Again originally raced with the OMC electric shift drives, but not very well. Sam Altese in 1975 made the change to Volvo drives and then won many races in the APBA class D.

Man those were the good old day's, i remember Sam nice guy. I had a couple of 29 mirage's running around on LSC back in the day. one raced and one played. it was the best of times

Did you have the SILVER STREAK. Hope you can make the OLD SCHOOL OFFSHORE REUNION at Jacks [Emerald City Harbor] June 14. I have posts here on the classic site [Reunion] and Magnum owners thread.

That was me. thanks for posting a picture of my old boat it's been a long time since i have seen one. an offshore reunion sounds great i'll make sure i'm there

Please, h2oboater can you give us more details on Walt Burns' fatal accident?
When did it occur? What did it really happen?
Thanks.

The race was the 1974 Blue Lagon Classic on Lake St Clair. Walt was racing in Steve Baums 8m Chris Craft [MAVERICK]. I believe a steering part broke and the boat rolled in a turn. The crew were thrown from the boat, and Walt was hit in the head by a deck cleat. This was the first U.S. offshore racing fatality.

A friend of mine and I bought the hull mold for the 8 meter Chris when they closed down the Holland Michigan plant, many years ago. We had the great idea to go into the boat building trade without knowing a thing about it. Long story short...it got burned up. I'm still a little bummed!

This L.S.C. Mirage [Lil' ABNER] just went up for sale on craigslist Detroit. By the looks of the pic's she has held up very well for being 30 years old.
http://detroit.craigslist.org/boa/660132890.html

Mark, That boat looks good and not a bad price! Looks like she is sitting at Millers.

Spark

Spark it dose look like Millers, this Mirage just sold on the East Coast for around $11500.00 a even better price. I would say this was a deal, these old girls still look GOOD.

Mark, you know how bought that one here from LI?
I was on it a year ago, knew it could have been bought for 18ish. It was in pretty nice shape. Decent Hardware too.

You can see on page 3 of this thread i posted some pics of it.
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...=155159&page=3

It is the same Mirage, she didnt last long when they droped the price from $23000.00 to $11750.00. Nocig sent me the link, I had hoped it was coming to Michigan, all I know is the new owner is in Egg Harbor. It was on screamandfly.com, http://forums.screamandfly.com/forum...ad.php?t=89472

Definetly going to go check out Lil' Abner!!!

Mark, that was a sick buy!
The boat was very clean, and i wouldn't have minded the bottom paint, since i could have left it in the water.
But my lifestyle will not support a project boat, or an older boat. :(
Got no time to toy around w/ the toys... just time to use them.

If you want pics of that 29, I took a bunch when i visited it last summer.
I can email them to you, or send you a disk w/them.
PM me your email or address if you're interested.

Here is one more pic of a LSC Mag [KRISTYL LADY]. If you raced a Magnum on Lake St Clair you had to have that add on rear hatch.

Did anyone buy Lady L ?

yes, i think someone on the board got it.
know i read it somewhere within the last 8 months.

Old School Reunion Pic's
 

Here are more of the pic's from the Old School Reunion. This was one of the many Cig's that were there.

man that is a beautiful boat.

wow is that a nice 35classic.
whos is that? on the board?

a guy from grosse pointe michigan, don't know if he is on the board

I believe it's [motownjim] Cig here on OSO, that Cig look's even better in person.

Here is a 28' Cig that came to the reunion, and it was very nice !!

All the classic manufactures were represented, even this cool Sutphen showed up !!

I remember our skater hatch coming down on Rich's head while doing our inspection. He was a great guy maybe a different guy after that.

mark, we need more pic's of the boats that were there that weekend

When Mark P is not racing his P-2 [Cat Can Do] cat, he is out running this beautifully restored 28' Pantera.

This 47' Apache was the talk of the reunion.

The Mirage powerboats were well represented at the reunion. Even Jack Mathes arived in a Mirage [WOLVERINE] with his son Kevin.

Here are a few more Mirage pic's. Two classic Mirage race boats [LIL' ABNER] & [LASALLE - white hull with red bolsters] made the reunion. Even our Canadian friend the PIRATE made a appearance.

can't remember where or when I took this pic.

You can really see the Mirage heritage in the lines of this Velocity.

Just found this pic, Lake St. Clair 1980's

This one is cool,,,,CIGARETTE :ernaehrung004:

Priceb...can u PM me re: Vicalenjet

I can't belive it! but I'm Sure that's my 1973 FINO next to the building at Magnum,It was all white with Red stripe! I miss that boat!

there was a movie in the 70s or 80s with a speed boat named slap shot and had to do with the Bermuda (sp) Triangle anyone remember?

C

I think the boat was a 27 Magnum Sport named Bank Shot.