Red's Chrysler Laser
 

Originally Posted by Black Tornado
It seems that Chrysler Laser was the former Wolverine. But Wolverine seem is still alive somewhere.
But for this I think it's better open another thread.

BT,,After the Active cat Benihana broke in the 1982 Kiekhaefer/St Augustine Classic Red Crain bought the Active cat and had it repaired by Active. With it's new name Chrysler Laser, Red and Bob Kaiser race it with Chrysler Hemi power. Red would later race this cat under many names, Daddy Cool, Duty Free maybe more ? Red said he sold it to a movie company, were it was blown up for a TV movie.
The Wolverine cat became Bud Light, then A J Roberts were in a race it broke up in Lake Michigan , last seen in a field beyond repair, gutted.

What a shame so many of those boats broke apart - they always looked great.

The early Active cats were the first of the big cats to be made fiberglass & Kevlar. The 37' and 33' Active cats had a great Cougar design with it's wide tunnel pushed the way they were made to the max. But if they held together they would usually outrun other big cats of the day. Alot has been learned since then, I'm sure todays Skater and MTI cats have a technology advantage that wasn't there in 1982.

Many Thanks h2oboater! You are very informed about the Active too.
Can you make an Active story opening a new special thread?

8 Meter Chris Craft
 

How many remember this Chris Craft, they came out around 1975. A white and red 8 Meter called CC Rider raced in P class back then in the Great Lakes. But their was another one called the Maverick raced by Steve Baum in the sport class back then. It was a White hull with smallblock Mecruiser Tempest engines and the new Trs drives, and it was Fast. But sadly the Maverick rolled over in a turn and killed Walt Burns at the 1975 Blue Lagoon Classic on Lake St Clair. Steve retired the hull, but later used it's basic design to build the Maverick boat's he and Lew Cooper [Miss Gallo] raced.

Jim Talbott
 

The actual date was June 4 1978, it happened on Toms River in NJ. Jim Talbott was my father, I was 7 when he was killed. If anyone has any pictures or stories of Jim Talbott I would love to hear them. Most of the stuff that I had was destroyed in a flood when I was a teenager. I used to have a 1st annual Burns/Talbott memorial race book but that was lost as well.

Dave Talbott

I have a few images

http://dtalbott.googlepages.com/jimtalbott

Seeing as I haven't posted on here yet, I had enough trouble putting up some photos I took in Key West in 1984. So if I can't get these to show up check out my Photo album. Some great Old School shots.

And another two.
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Hey Guys I thinkt there is a problem... ;-)
 

I think they were a little nervous. went straight to the docks on plane and barely got it out before it sank if I recall right, but hey, I was only 14 at the time...

Always loved the look of this boat
 

"Jesse James" was always a great looking boat.