Old B class boat. 28 Pantera Opa. Now powered by a couple of HP500's.

Beautiful Wolverine.

Unique cat owned by the marina owner. Someone said it was a Maelstrom. It had a flawless woodgrain finish on the deck. As well as plenty of hp.:D :cool:

Here's one many have fogot about, Triton Marine a trimaran hull. They raced in P class, around 1982, never caught on like the cat's did.

it ran into the 90's. i remeber that hull

thanks jo, i love that pics. aaaaaaaaaaahhhh the good old days of racing. that was dangerous:D

is that mark? if so that is the boat in the picture above:D

great boating there......We have a place on grand traverse bay, the shores right at the end of 72........Man due i wish i was up that weekend..........

The year 1975 Offshore Racing on Lake St Clair was becoming very popular, boat's like Lil Rhino, Wolverine, & L'IL SMIDGEN were the boat's to beat ! I thought I could run with the big boy's with my 24' Cheetah 454 jet boat in modified class M-77. What was I thinking !! But the cool thing was I got to race against the Great's Like Wally Harper, Pete Smith,& many more and that's PRICELESS .

Here is another classic, Sam Altese's 24' Nova Come Again, he would later race this Magnum P-83 Come Again, and when I thought it was time I bought it from him, this time I had a real boat to race.

Correct. He's in Lake Orion. Has a bar called Opa and another one I can't think of the name with a Pantera hanging from the ceiling. We had a OSO party there last year about this time. About time for another one.:D :evilb: :D

Two early Outboard race boats that ran in Detroit in the 70's. BZ-II a 30' Maritime Hull with 3 Chrysler 150 racing engines, If race's were won on sound this outboard would win every time. The other boat was just known as FREDDY P-172 a 24' Super boat hull. Fred Hartman surprised many in P class with the speed of this boat.

Here are a few more pics. from the 70s.

A few more.

Wow!

Brownie, what years did you work for Cary??

JH

73, 4, 5.

MICHELOB Light #3 & #89 on the Detroit River, 1979,&1980 ??

Wow great pics!

H20boater (or anyone else that might know), I read in Searace that Davey Wilson drove "a 38' Italian aluminum deep V" to third place in the 1983 Detroit Race(Detroit River & Lake St. Clair). It doesn't say what marque the boat was, but indicates the name/sponsor was "Ittios, Inc." I'm curious about what make the boat was and if there are any photos or if anyone knows aything about it.

Maybe that boat was the CUV Bandit/Caliente or another boat that was left here after one of the world championships in Florida? I thought that there was some indication that there could have been another CUV left in the US and there was also some comment that Billy Martin throttled or dove one at some point.

I'd also heard that Brownie knew something about the CUVs that ran here in the US. Is that true?

Any info or photos would be appreciated.

Is this it, not the best pic will look for more.

CUV as suspected! Thanks! Yah any more photos or info would be greatly appreciated. I does look a lot like Bandit/Caliente.

Like we can see It's the next Caliente of Antonelli.
I think it was a 38' builded for an american driver in those years(1982-83) or maybe it's the former Ali Reza of the weapons merchant Francesco Pazienza alias Frank Donato that had a all white 38' in 1982. The little lateral air scopes in the engines hatches seems the same of that boat. No other CUV 38' had those air scopes.
That American CUV have a windshield modified on the sides too. Was modified in USA or born in that shape?

A few more shot's of Betty Cook's #-89 Winning Scarab, one at the start the other finishing the Detroit River race.

Wolverine was one of the most beautiful Active cats!
It's a pity that exists few colours pics of it.

Pete was one of our local offshore Hero's ,here is one pic of the WOLVERINE and a pic of that beer add with the beak's of the WOLVERINE in the back ground of that Detroit race !!! Betty beat her old friend, Pete Smith WOLVERINE in that race.

Many thanks h2oboater,
To think that in those years I and a friend of mine we saw actual that page of addvertising and we recognized that that spike of sponson that breaks from the bow of the Scarab of Betty Cook should belong to the Wolverine. :D

To this day I still regret selling Pete's pleasure Wolverine Active cat,, LOVE THEM WOLVERINE COLOR"S

J Smith's many PUTT-PUTT'S.

Does anybody know where Wolverine is today??

Wolverine became the Bud Light than A J Robert's, then ????????

thats a scary but funny story........

I found out that when last raced as A J Mr Robert's on lake Michigan they busted the bottom out, and may be sitting in a field somewhere.

Thanks H20, Do you happen to remember a Magnum? out of Emerald City called LIL' ABNER??

No,, but I think there was 29'ss Mirage called Lil' Abner.

This Photo - is of my first Bertram - the 28 ft. orriginal Needle Nose - it was sold to Ken Black - he painted it pink - his wife drove it - it burned up in a fire

PHIL