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Well, I ain't never seen it...but
Mike Wallace and I drove together in Paris, 1971...and as I wrote here, somewhere, I broke a crank with 30 minutes left...while leading...
The next weekend was Berlin, and we didn't get to Berlin until Saturday morning, as the Seebold's, Wood's and Hill's had toured PORTUGAL and Spain...
When I got to Berlin it was so frigging cold, there was ice in the boats...I had won Berlin, with Jimbo, the year before, so had figured Wallace and I would have a chance to repeat.
To my surprise and delight, I was TEAMED with Ceasar Scotti...Seems the American Flag was on the boat with the Italian flag.....It was Scotti's call, he wanted me as his co-driver...The problem was when we went to test, I'm 6'5" and Scotti was a lot shorter....By the time they figured out how to get me into the boat, test time was over.
Unlike the year before, when I'd thrown a "WALLEYED FIT" when Leek wanted Jimbo to start the race, I agreed to let Scotti start the race... Scotti broke a crank in the first hour and I never got a ride.
Scotti ran the same boat at Havasu that year and when the race was over his boat went to me, which I only ran once and that was at Morgan City, Louisiana. Then, Ted May got the boat and he ran it forever....Until he got the RED HIGH RISE MOLINARI...the one in the posters...
Scotti's boat and Jimbo's 1971 Havsu Boat were "SISTER BOATS"... Jimbo won Havasu with his Black and White Scotti, with Mike Wallace second...
After Havasu, Mike Wallace and I (Maybe just me) agreed to be friends...and we drove together in the spring of 1972 to finish 2nd overall in a New Scotti...
Funny, we ran a brand new Mercury 17 inch pitch prop that I'd bought from Mercury and re cupped it myself...
So, was I in a brochure???..Maybe, but I don't recall ever driving the boat...with Italian flags on it...
As for Jimbo's black and white Scotti, I was to run it in January 1972 at Miami. The race got blown out, but my testing told me that it was the greatest boat I'd ever driven....
After Miami, Jimbo ran the Black and white Scotti, with Ted May, to win Parker overall, with me and Fred Hauenstein second in the black and yellow Molinari that is my avatar!!!!!
I always felt, had the Miami race been run, I'd have won it easily, as the OMC 8 Carb was "KING" then...and Had I won Miami, I'd screamed like hell to run that Scotti at Parker...and Freddy and Me would have three Parker wins to our credit....
No clue what happened to the Black and White Scotti, but Ted May's (The one in the brochure) ended up in Jay Root's hands (in San Diego) and he installed a Mercruiser outdrive and beat the fire out of the 150 hydros, so they kicked him out of the class...He may still have that Scotti in San Diego!!!!
Top picture is Jimbo, close up and the second one is from the 1972 Havasu Program (full page)..
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T2x, help me with names...
This is Jim Hunt, Powerboat, 1968....
Those Jones had a habit of once reaching a "SWEET FEEL", they took off... I think they needed more set back, because, they had none, except Pruett's Triple, and she rode nice...