jolley
Thanks!
My car is a 68 camaro. Got it when I was in the navy. I ran across a guy whos dad just passed away. He has corvettes from 1954 up to 1999 and used them as daily drivers, he kept them all. They are for sale at pretty reasonable prices. They are high mileage cars. PM me if interested.
You have a great boat!
jim

You guys are not going to believe this!
I just got off the phone with my brother.
I had heard that his boat had got stolen but that he got it back so I thought no big deal. Well he got it back minus the back third of the boat! They cut it off and took the engines and drives!!! This was a 36' Spectra with two 1575 hp 572's built by Howard Davis, this boat had been to 168 MPH!
The engines were painted yellow and had huge blowers with dual 1050 carbs.
Watch for these engines I am sure they will show up somewhere. I will see if I can get some pictures.
At least it was not a classic, it is replaceable and he had insurance.
I can't believe I put up a post about cutting up a boat and come to find out my brothers boat got cut up!
Unbelievable!!
Sorry about the earlier post I was frustrated after spending two weeks trying to get a deal together on those turbines and I had just gotten back from four days of living in my truck to get them.
Then to have someone tell me my efforts are worthless and I should sell my boat hit me way wrong.

Sorry to hear about your bros boat man.

We had a boat get torn up on rocks in a storm right in front of us and it can be a brutal ordeal.
You never realize how attached to a boat you can get.

Talked to Odell Lewis today, really enjoyed the visit!
He told me some very interesting things a about the boat. For one he told me about the dual set of throttle controls, one set controlled the percentage of throttle and the other set was used to throttle the engines.
The floor of the boat had a plywood bottom with 3" of foam and a layer of plywood on top.
The bottom of the boat also has a curve on the back 6 ft of the boat to counter the lifting action of the v-drives, kind of pulls the backend down.
The transmissions where 3 sp truck transmissions ( 7Xchamp says la salle transmissions) If they where lasalle transmissions that would be great, I have an extra set of those. Does anybody know for sure?
Apparently with the turbines in it they didn't need the ballast tank up front, at least Odell did not use it when racing. It would try to plow through the waves and then shoot up in the air.
Also the gas tanks hold about 250 gal. each.
7Xchamp on a earlier post you said it had lasalle transmissions, I can understand them being used, alot of circle track racers where using them in the 60's it was a very strong transmission. I want to use the right transmissions if possible. If anyone knows for sure please let me know.

Sounds good. Hope to see that bad boy in the water next year!

Angel

I just ran across a guy with several 427 side oilers as in 4 plus, he collected them in his younger years. Also has 406's, 3 deuce setup's ect. he has had them for years and wants to dump them. Just bought his 1972 ford pantera with 12,000 miles on it, paid less than you could buy a fender for it! I will keep you posted.

Please do. Here, ChineWalking.com or you should have my email.

One set was for the engines. One was for the free turbines which. The engines ran into free turbines that were connected to the drive system. most modern versions of jet power are pulling the power right off of jet engine.

There were also a couple floor controls for braking the free turbines prior to shifting.

I have been trying to figure that out, somehow one set of throttles must have controlled the fuel and the other set must have controlled the governer's? Odell talked about the P&W guys turning up the goveners.

I just read this thread & think its pretty cool that you are taking on a challenge of that magnitude. I hope you are able to find everything you need to finish & would really like to see it when your done.