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Re: back in the dayss

Thanks for the pics of the little Rhino in post #144. My buddy and myself own a 79' 29mirage - Pete Smith's old pleasure version of the Wolverine. Playing with it in the summers and restoring it during the winters.

Re: back in the dayss

Post #157 Jerry Jacoby and Wayne Vickers as throttleman in Brut.

Wayne was one of the pros in the game and had been around many years, mainly with Joel Halpern in Beep Beep during the years he was national champion.

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Originally Posted by Robert Geoghegan

Although not my pics, I can help narrate,
Post 135:
#99 35 Cigarette Tom Gentry's "American Eagle"
#44 36 Cigarette
#126 "Head Hunter",30 Magnum, recently for sale in BoatTrader for $10,000
#M 18 "Beep Beep Too" 28' Cobra? Joel Halpern's first boat
Post 136
#P 257 28 Cigarette, "The Flying Machine"
Post 137
#68 "Really Ridiculous" 40' Cigarette
#257 The Flying Machine
#6 "Top Banana" 24' Banana
#M-18 "Beep Beep Too"
#76 38 Signature, Tom Adam's "Spirit of America"
#6 "Copper Kettle" one of Sandy Satullo's many boats-this one a 36 Cigarette
#13 "Bewitched" a 40 Cigarette, formally "Bounty Hunter"
Post 140
#US-1 "Beep Beep" the first 38 Cobra
#9 38 Bertram "Streaker" run by Preston Henn
Post 141
#4 Rocky Aoki's 38 Bertram "Benihanna"
#77 "Limit Up" 35 Cigarette, came over from England to race, owned by Michael Doxford
Post 144
#M-8 "Cocktails", 30 Corsa
#S-254 "Lil Rhino" 29 Mirage
Post 145
# 3 Joe Ippolitto's "Natural Light", 35 Cigarette

Time to get to work! :D

Bob, your younger than I am, how do you know this stuff? Waterboy gave me his secret, what's yours?

Re: back in the dayss

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Originally Posted by ScottB

Best thread EVER!!

Oh...... I don't know about that....most of this stuff is pretty "obsolete"....

One thing though....Tommy Adams Signature looks an awful lot like a Hustler.........?

:p :p :p :p

T2x

Re: back in the dayss

Post # 143 and 144 shows some of the "pleasure boaters" of that era in Miami in the background.

You will notice a pale green 28 SS Cigarette and a red Magnum 35 and also a 36 foot Performer which was Bill Elswick's company. That maroon boat was the show boat that year for Performer at the Miami Boat Show. It had triple engines with TRS drives.

The dry pits were located on the bridge leading over to the island right in front of the Four Ambassadors Hotel. As you can see, a lot of money was put into the tow rigs back in those days.....for the real big show offs they put a cap on the back of the pickup's.

I think that the 40 Cigarette..."Really Ridiculous" was formerly owned by Diamond Don, himself quite a character, who ended up deceased because of an indiscretion of some sort.

Re: back in the dayss

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Originally Posted by T2x

Oh...... I don't know about that....most of this stuff is pretty "obsolete"....

One thing though....Tommy Adams Signature looks an awful lot like a Hustler.........?

:p :p :p :p

T2x

Obsolete?? I didn't see that many egg beaters...

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I post 147, there is a 4 Mercury engine Magnum on the Bridge-I think the boat was called "Honey Bear", can anyone confirm this? :rolleyes: