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A lot of us racers had models made of our boats back in the 70's and 80's......This is the model I had made of my race boat and tow rig.
I found a guy who made the original molds for Revell models living in a trailer down in the hill country and sent my whole rig down to him for a few weeks. He crawled all over it and measured and remeasured everything and drove my driver crazy asking questions, but when he finished the job, I was very happy. It has been sitting on my mantle for the last 25 years and looks as good today as the day he deliverd it to me at the Long Island race in 1979. I know Don Aronow had two models of the Cigarette made, one of which Mark McManus of Apache has. Anybody else out there with pictures to post? |
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Well after seeing Top Banana's I'm not sure I can compete. Excellent display.
Will post mine later. |
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TB, That thing is just awesome. I wish they had a kit of it. I'd buy one and put it together for my mantle!
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I remember watching that boat trying to get on plane before a race with two girls acting as ballast sitting on the very front of the bow ,with their legs hanging over. Ah the good ole days.
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Thats really cool, something cool to have!
We have some model sail boats ;) They are actually pretty cool if you look and see how they were hand done and all the details that are on them. |
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Originally Posted by Popeyes
I remember watching that boat trying to get on plane before a race with two girls acting as ballast sitting on the very front of the bow ,with their legs hanging over. Ah the good ole days.
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My tenent has a 6' long model of a 41 Apache with twin #6 drives driven by a 8 H.P. nitrous motor. This thing is cool as beans! He says it will run about 60 m.p.h. I can't wait to see this thing run. Can't post pics ... no digital camera yet. :(
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Originally Posted by Popeyes
I remember watching that boat trying to get on plane before a race with two girls acting as ballast sitting on the very front of the bow ,with their legs hanging over. Ah the good ole days.
NO NO NO......That was not me.......Just to clear up that story forever.......I sold the boat and the buyer was supposed to change the name and the color scheme.....but he didn't change the name and he added a greenish color over the yellow........and then changed the number from #60 to #666......need I say more? :evilb: |
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Here's another model - although it's not mine, it is a 24' Banana Boat...
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Fred what you doing posting picks of girls :eek: :D |
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Singapore I bet that was cool :D
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I"ve got to go back to typing school. As I was saying to Audiofn, These were definitly no models, I could tell that through my glasses and visor. No loss if they were tossed. I am so glad it was not The "Top Banana" on OSO. Whewwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!! :D
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Ok Chatim and T.B., who's 24 model is that and how can I get it or one like it? I would love to make one to look like mine! And or have that Team Banana (or Top Banana for that matter) as a cool display piece.
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Elite's HUGE. That comp card above is from the Singapore office.
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"Tiger Cub" and "Tiger#1"
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these aren't mine but they are pretty good.. I'd like one of these drives for mine
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Who makes the scale Speedy Six?
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My boat
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the company is MHZ they make all kinds of scale stuff including trim tabs and trimax drives... they make a coupler to use one big motor and 2 speedmaster drives
http://www.mhzusa.com/xtdoc/catalogu...tType=55drives http://www.mhzusa.com |
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Charlie, I'm sure this will look familiar :)
Harry |
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Very cool :drink:
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How accurate is the model? Did the real Cigarette not have counter rotation drives?? Just curious. Great looking model!
Wasn't Michael Aronow supposed to build a limited # of these models? |
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All the boat models are very cool, but....
FRED WINS WITH HIS!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :D |
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Robert, I don't know about the drives on the original boat, but the model is almost dead on with everything else. One of the original twelve that Don had made in Europe. And yes, Michael and my buddy Christian are making a limited number of the model, he hangs out on here, RoseBudRacing. Talk to him, he'll tell you more.
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