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Old 09-14-2008 | 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by MOBILEMERCMAN
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I remember Mr Zip when it was a twin engine boat. Sorry, No I don't have pictures.

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Sorry Guys I missed a bunch of years in the early nineties. I will go thru my piles and scan more programs and such after this race season.
Jim ,MR.ZIP was never a twin . I thnk you are thinking of Mc Combes TRITON ,which is the same boat just twin engines.
They also had a Cat once with ZIP EXPRESS but not an AEROTEK.
Are going to be in KW this year ?
Would like to meet you.
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Old 09-14-2008 | 01:34 PM
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very cool
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Old 09-14-2008 | 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by daredevil
Jim ,MR.ZIP was never a twin . I thnk you are thinking of Mc Combes TRITON ,which is the same boat just twin engines.
They also had a Cat once with ZIP EXPRESS but not an AEROTEK.
Are going to be in KW this year ?
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Scott,
I may be mistaken, but my memory usually serves me well. There was a boat owned by a guy in Virgina Named Wayne, he owned a corvette shop. It was a twin engine A boat back around '88 or so. It was clean clean. I remember it named Mr Zip.
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Old 09-14-2008 | 03:10 PM
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Jim ,.......could be that he had owned a a-boat befor the Aerotek.
But the MR.ZIP Aerotek was and still is a single.
He also raced it in a-class but it was built in 91/92.
So i quess we are both right .LOL

I just try to find all the history from my boat, as you know that is the MR.ZIP AEROTEK.
For the $ ispend to rebuilt it ,i could of both a new one.
Ya just gotta love it................
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Old 09-14-2008 | 04:33 PM
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It was my first year. i didn't know it existed before then. I returned the following year and helped my friend Art Lilly race the Joker a stock B boat. I returned a dozen times or more since. I first raced there in 94 and again in 98. I am looking forward to going this year.
Hey Jim, great pics and stories. You wouldn't by any chance have any photos of Brian Ross's Snap-On Scarab when it was used as a pace boat around 94 or 95. I have one very grainy photo that was given to me a few years back by a friend that was there as a throttle man. It would've been in the graphics pictured below.

Thanks, Wayne
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Old 09-14-2008 | 05:02 PM
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Sorry Guys, I took few pix in the nineties. In fact I wish I some would share some pix of me in '98 in the Matco boat F2-71 in Bahamas.
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Old 09-14-2008 | 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by MOBILEMERCMAN
Scott,
I may be mistaken, but my memory usually serves me well. There was a boat owned by a guy in Virgina Named Wayne, he owned a corvette shop. It was a twin engine A boat back around '88 or so. It was clean clean. I remember it named Mr Zip.
The twin engine Mr Zip was originally this Predator powerboat, [Magnum copy] it was also called Little Miss Dangerous. The hull was built by Jim Clem of Lancer, Aero , Predator, & Awesome powerboat Fame. She was owned and raced by Dan Humes from Michigan around 1987.
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Old 09-14-2008 | 11:37 PM
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Wow, thats also a cool boat.
What happend to it ? Hope somebody saved it, hell hope somebody saved all the old raceboats.
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Old 09-15-2008 | 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by MOBILEMERCMAN
Sorry Guys, I took few pix in the nineties. In fact I wish I some would share some pix of me in '98 in the Matco boat F2-71 in Bahamas.
Thanks for check'n Jim
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Old 09-15-2008 | 11:16 AM
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Memories - had a lot of fun back then. Great pictures, thanks for sharing!

Post #70 - Bam, Liberty & Obsession, the way I remember it Danger zone won the first race, can't remember where we placed then Obsession (Bob Oetringer) won the second with us right behind. Danger Zone had blown an engine and was using someone's spare for the second race so we were able to get by them. That was particularly painful as I had lent Bob the props he used to beat us.
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