Originally Posted by Cevert (Post 2253910)

First rule of guerrilla warfare: if you can't win by existing rules, change the rules!

Originally Posted by seeroy (Post 2244005)

OK Richie you sucked me into this one. The only things I remember about 28' Magnum and Aronow in California are as follows. One summer I worked for Don in Miami instead of working at the Lake. Knocky was in Europe with one boat and I took a 28' Magnum w/single sterndrive to Long Beach for 2 day race. Day 1 was Long Beach to SanDiego..Day 2 was SanDiego back to Long Beach. Odell was 1st with the turbine Maritime and we were 2nd. At the finish line Odell was sitting just out from the dock when we came by close enough for me to hand him a ham sandwich. That is, if I had a ham sandwich, which I didn't. Another of Bill's favorite sayings, "If we had some ham, we could have a ham and cheese sandwich, if we had some cheese." By the way "Searace" says that it was Bill riding with Don when, in fact, it was me. Also, apparently there was another race in California where Aronow ran a Magnum against Odell in the turbine. I believe that race ran from Long Beach to San Francisco and I don't know who rode with Don, but I would imagine that it was probably Knocky or, possibly Barry Cordingly. As to Jim Armington....I recently sent an e-mail to Buckeye Marine in Ohio asking about him. It seems to me that was the name of his dealership. I did not get a response. The only boat that I remember Jim in was the 32" Cary w/4 outboards that Chet Strickland had run somewhere, and I ran in the 3rd Bahamas 500 with Ralph Seavey as a Co-driver. Sometime after that, Armington bought that boat from Kiekhaefer and ran it in a race off of the New Jersey coast with Me and his son onboard. Brother Bill was running with Joel Cohen in the old "Ghost Rider". The Jersey coast was home waters to Joel, so we followed him thinking he would know where he was going. He was leading and we were running about a mile behind him in 2nd place. He missed a turn/check point.....Naturally, we followed thinking, "Hey. This is his home water. He knows where he's going."......WRONG! After about 5 or 10 miles he reversed course and, once again we followed him. Not too far down the line we picked up a plastic bag on one of the lower units thus plugging the water intake and toasting an engine. The drag from the puked motor put us out of the race. Armington ran the same rig at another later race with Chet Strickland along for the ride. Somewhere along the way they rolled the boat and Chet damn near died. I think he ended up in the water with a punctured lung and Jim's son holding him up until rescue arrived. We really need to get Chet on this site. I know he has some incredible stories to tell. Back to Jim Armington....I remember him as one on the truly nice guys from those days. I am sure he raced in other events after I had left the scene for USAF pilot training. My attention was pretty much centered on surviving through that year long school followed by another 6 months of Fighter/Interceptor training. During that year and a half, I really don't know much about anything that happened on the boat racing scene. Does anyone know what became of Jim or his son? -Steve Sirois

Originally Posted by mr vinyl (Post 2256657)

Steve Siros...The 29-9 was purchased on 9-15-80 from Cheetah Marine,Formerly Cheetah Racing Team Inc,6063 Crossview Road Seven Hills Ohio by Vaugh Szarka,per my paper work.We are quite sure that Jim owned it before that ,for how long we do not know do you have any idea ???

Also was't the Mona Lou driven by Mel Riggs on many occasion ??? Bud

Originally Posted by PJRIZ (Post 2256915)

Blk TornadO:
Sternwinder was one of a group of 27' Magnums purchased by Mr. K from Don in 66 - I believe Billy drove the one you are asking abouy

Originally Posted by Black Tornado (Post 2256461)

Hi Steve,
I have a question: You speak of the Long Beach-San Francisco and and back 1967 where you was with Aronow on 28' single engine. In that same competition your brother raced with a Bertram 31' #90 named Mona Lou with white deck and yellow sides. In the previous Bahamas 500 he raced with a similar or the same boat but named Sternwinder.
Do you know how to tell me because he call that same boat with two names or did it deal with two different Bertrams?
Marco