Tim giving his Al Copeland pose in front of his 3 Scarabs.

Sorry to hear about Tim. God bless him and his family

RIP. Do you know when he purchased the 5 boat? Some friends of mine partnered in it around 10 years ago. They purchased it from someone in TX. Rebuilt all 3 engines, converted it to 5 man bolster set up and put a new flag wrap on it. Is this the same boat? Last I was in it , it ran 123 .

No this boat was never cut into a 5 man cockpit its still the three man setup it still had the number on the side when Tim purchased it

Tim's Flag Scarab in front of his # 5 Scarab in this pic has 3 engines, is that the Scarab you are referring to ?

Did Tim bring the Red White And Blue Scarab with the staggered engines and 6 pak to the Old School reuniion last year?

Wannabe

The boat in your pics is a 38 scarab that Wellcraft did in the 90s. The hull was laminated on thee west coast and rigged by Wellccraft

That boat is a Larry Smith and was originally built by Bill Leslie. It is a 38' powered by Merc 1000s. It is now owned by Bob Costa.

The one the bought had the original Gentry graphics including the lettering regarding the record. It was identical to the pics you have posted. We did strip the graphics and did do a flag wrap on it. Do you have any other pics of that boat?

I will try and find some before and after pics of the conversion.

I picked up the 5 boat this weekend while racing in MIS.
Yes that's the 5 boat at MIS in the team parking. It even made tv aireal shot.

Here's what i was talking about, it was DJ's Lambo powered 43....

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You are right Ratman72 that was the 43 Scarab Mercruiser Lambo it was converted to a pleasure boat about 20 years ago it was in ventura Ca for many years owned by a friend of Larry Smith's. Then it went to the ST. Louis area. Lost track of it after that it was rigged with 502 EFIs and Bravo's. The number 99 Boat you posted is the same boat that we bought in Georgia last month with the number 9 on it . It raced under both numbers (9) & (99) Tom raced it as number 9 and Don raced it as number 99

Very interesting, your certainly the goto guy for Scarab info!!

So these two are the same boat............

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The 5 boat made it to Team Archer this afternoon!

and its clean now!!!

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The 5 boat sitting at Team Archer along side "Smokin Joe".

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Fuel tanks are out & work is started on converting it back to how it was originally built for staggered twins.

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What was the power and weight to run 126?

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Finally finished the engine room all the little braces and blukheads all done in epoxy.[ATTACH=CONFIG]542041[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]542042[/ATTACH] Looks just like it did in the beginning 23 years ago.

Whatever happened to Gus Anastasi's red 43' Lambo-powered Scarab boat?
1987 vintage I believe?

It had an accident on Lake Michigan and was destroyed

Dan, what ever happened to the restoration of this boat.

I would love to see what's going on with this restore.������

Nothing at this time we have finished all the glass work and were ready to start the next part of the project but as in so many cases. $$$$$$$

Thanks for the update. So glad Y'all are keeping Tim's dream alive. The $$$ part we can understand. I didn't know Tim but have lots of respect for anyone that's helping on this project.