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What have we become?!

Heck, Obama had less than that and he's president. We run a tight ship around here! (no pun intended)

Being a car guy and in the vintage auto restoration biz in a past life i am absolutely fascinated by "car in the barn stories" but being a boat guy this is off the chart cool. I understand if you are not at liberty to divulge but . . . . . how the heck did you come upon something like this?

just way cool and cant wait to see more pics.

on my own here locally i un earthed one of 37 1904 Buicks, found it in a barn a mile from my shop when i went to look at a 36 Chrysler for a customer. Also found one of one Aston Martin Ghia Supersonics behind a Donzi Marine dealer i did work for. It was siting in the weeds like any other old car. Had the car at my shop for over a year before it was sold to its current owner and the gentleman who restored it.

http://www.autoweek.com/article/2013...WS01/131029944)

http://www.rmauctions.com/lots/lot.cfm?lot_id=1059964

AWESOME FIND, Tom Gentry is LEGENDARY in our sport. His equipment was light years ahead of it's time. I would love to have one of the raw turbo housing with his logo on it just for a paper weight....seriously.

Shaun.....Sammy James, Richie Powers and John Conners were very involved with Tom Gentry over various periods of his racing.

I am sure that they could go through the containers with you and create an inventory of what is there and also give you an idea of what would be of interest to today's boaters and what is just antique junk.

Great find and thanks for trying to keep the goods from falling into hands that would just toss them out.

Think the crash boxes with the pto drive were made by Carl Kiekhaefer

Back to Keith Atlanta post. We also need at least 3 Credit card numbers front and back

cool find! post more pics!

Extremely cool find!

I am interested to see everything that is there. As some have said already there are many items that could be of value both in restorations and new builds. I also agree with that some of it will be antiquated and not worth much. That said, anything with Gentry or the like stamped or printed on it holds a certain value to us boat freaks that would just display it for its cool factor.

Going from memory here, just a fragment from decades ago. I seem to remember a pic of Gentry's engine tuner in a magazine. Maybe Japanese? Long hair, dialing in Gentrys engine with a hand held meter. Last name might begin with the letter M? Possibly the brain behind the twin turbo hardware? Interested in knowing the development history myself.......That's all I got.

Picture of Chief Engine......I believe that is originally Gentry hardware.

Thanks Jolley, I'll post on here AND Facebook :) My car friends are also very interested in this stuff. Seems like more then a couple have car projects they want to put these motors into. My preference though as someone earlier pointed out is these going to a good and proper home. I know Tom would have wanted someone to have fun with this stuff and it should go into a boat (IMHO) and preferably a vintage one or one which these motors would have gone into originally.

If you've seen any of the stuff I've personally restored (cars), you'll know I spend HUGE effort in 1) doing it right 2) document it 3) doing it period correct. You have to, to be able to run in events like the Monterey Historics which I have with my Impala.

I would *love* for someone to get this stuff who is restoring one of Toms old boats.

shaun