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Weed Eater Outboard: Original Classic
My dad always said he was very even tempered, he was mad all the time....(Which wasn't at all true....he was mellow, but had learned to box as a young man...didn't take much BULL to set him off)... I on the other hand, feel I'm seldom angery, but sometimes I go off...I don't ever stay mad and anyone....And If you know me, you know that several people have taken advantage of me several times....and I give them another "CHANCE" (To screw me).... But generally, life has been very good to me. I went into teaching to be off in the summers, but never worked a day in my teaching life that I didn't feel over paid.
One day, I came home and Chad had taken my new Weed Eater apart and told me he and grandpa WERE GOING TO MAKE AN OUTBOARD.....(Kind of like the song: "Now you can say there is no such thing as Santa, but as for me and grandpa we believe"...I thought, Christ, new Weed Eater torn to hell...).
Well, Chad and his Grandpa made patterns, ordered gears from Boston Gear, made castings, machined parts and built a motor....Later they used the Zinowa and had their been an E-Bay, Chad and my dad would have made a million dollars on these OUTBOARDS.
This is the ONLY WEED EATER they ever made, so it is the "ORIGINAl" ... I did help make a four blade prop for it..
I was mad about my Weed Eater, but twenty-two years later, I'm so glad Chad wanted to build an Outboard and I feel how lucky he and I both were to have a grandpa/dad who would build a motor with his grand son!!!!
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Thanks for the 1966 Picture... Needle Marathon Winner
That "Head Shot" of me was in Power Boat Magazine, 1966. Dave Severson, who started Power Boat Magazine, liked me...He called me a "HERO DRIVER". He later hired me to sell subscriptions to the magazine and write articles...
I found these old pictures today...Hell, I guess all my pictures are OLD, but the first two pictures are the Elsinore 500, 1973. I had just won it, about one week before my daughter was born. I was supposed to race in Paris and Berlin the next two weeks, but my wife convinced me to stay for the birth of our "BABY"...I was one of the first dads to be in the delivery room, even though the doctor didn't like it at all...I stayed anyway...
Jessica was born on the day of the Six Hours of Paris, 1973....I've never regretted missing the race...
The guy in the straw hat is John Stoker...the YOUNG MAN, is AL Stoker...John's Custom Marine co-sponsored my boat in those days. The OLD MAN is in the blue hat (My dad....He owned 22 acres on Lake Elsinore, winning the 500 was a proud day for our family....My grandmother's house over looked the lake from Rome Hill.)...That's Gil Gilbert with the KM 55 shirt on... Gil drove Spectra Marine's Offshore boats...
The third picture is Ted March, in the red, and me in the blue at St. Louis, 1989...John Castelli drove my HST Hydrostream in MOD VP....I own the first two HST's ever build...Castelli had one, Jim Harris had the other...We ran a Merc on Castelli's and a Yamaha on Jim Harris's....
The rules were a bit tilted, and the Yamaha had to run stock heads, but now and then, Jim would put hot heads on the Yammie and win....
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Evinrude Six Stud and Sid Craft Hydro
I found these pictures of my brother's Sid Craft, 1960 Sid Craft, and my dad's Six Stud when we had it on a Merc mid section and gearcase...
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Old Hill Marine Ad in Vapor Trails
After this ad ran, Jim McKean from Mabank, Texas...called and wanted a "NOSE JOB" but he had one word wrong!!!! Started with a "B"...
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Dawe Craft Classic Race Boats
Ernie is building me a new KILO boat for 45 SST... I had Jimbo look the drawing over, I'm heading back to Indio today to pick you Broc's 45. Ernie put new decks on his boat...
We had planned to make the Oroville Kilos this March, 2007, but now, October at Devil's Lake, looks like the CALL!!!