Have You been in a bat boat?

[john acosta]

one design !

What a Ride!!!
For some $$$ we got to drive or throttle a reindl bat boat.

How many racers ,started out in one of these?

My favorite was the lime green one . in 2003 reindl did a gig in central florida for chrysler .I throttled that bat boat around a small lake .which dina paoella called the mud hole.while about 200 employees drove! .what ridiculous fun .
I met frank ( koolhand ) and ken doyle there.both became offshore racers .

Everyone has a bat boat story .dont you?

 

[rschap1]

Sorry to hear the sad news

R.I.P.

 

[Ratickle]

Yep, it was a surprise when I was notified. RIP Chris

I'll share my BatBoat story later.

 

[Ratickle]

St Claire 2009

 

[Ratickle]

That was a heck of a day of racing.

The Batboat in the pic belonged to Dean who I ran it with in Harrison, but Rick and I ran it in St Claire where Freeze took that pic. We ran it first in the Class 5 race. Then next in the Vee Lite class.

Chris ran in Class 6 first, then in the Vee Lite class. We did beat him. But, that was before he put in the bigger power, and at that time Dean's had a 377 Merc Scorpion with a Bravo.

 

[john acosta]

Yes V lite .We tried several of us to get the bat boats legal in v lite in 02 maybe ?
Anyway the complaint from will smith owners was the wings gave lift on the bat boat .
Lotta controversy there. but even that was fun .

 

[Ratickle]

I remember talking to Chris after. He said they tried to keep up with us in the Vee Lite race, he was right on our ass, but after 3 or 4 corners where all he saw was water burying the side window they slowed down.

I think the Bravo boat cornered better than the Volvo boat.

 

[john acosta]

Absolutly.the bat boat needed a bravo and small block stroker.

i think scott utah had a white one with that combo .and it would hang all day with the phantom.s

 

[Ratickle]

We were doing good until we lost a belt bracket and the belt started slippin so we had overheating issues.