LOL... I met a BOAT RACER tonight...

All good stuff. Maybe I'll call the guy and get some more good quotes to put here....and some sweet MANTA pics....

And I forgot to mention the 26' Vee he had w/twin outboards that ran 120++.....IN THE EARLY 80's.....

Right with flux capacitor props
 
You know, it's funny, the guy across the street from me has a DeTomaso Pantera. They have Pantera club meetings at his house. They go freakin' nuts for my boat...

After I put the 575 N/A motor in the boat, we pulled into shoreline village. We had the blower hatch on the boat (thanks Mike!) and dry exhaust. Someone shouted down from the board walk "how fast is she" and before I could respond, my mechanic (MM1) shouted back "112, but were doing some prop testing and think we can get 117 out of her" the guy smiled a wide grin and gave us a big thumbs up (it runs 75). You never know how big the sack of crap is going to be! :D
 
WTF is up with posts deleting around this place?!?!?!?!

Could you be more specific? Typically speaking, the mods and admins are particularly averse to editing, censorship or deletion. It's a very rare occurence and typically only happens after group discussion, unless it's really out-of-bounds.
 
I once met a guy on an airplane that saw the "Penske" tag on my carry-on and asked me if I worked for Roger. Being tired, I just said "yes" and left it at that. He promptly launched into a long monologue about how proud he was that employees like me were there to support Penske Racing, which he ran. I listened politely for a few minutes, then went to sleep. As we got up to de-board, I opened my briefcase, got out one of my cards, and handed it to him. It said "General Manager - Penske Racing". He was still standing there slack-jawed when I left.

Nothing like meeting yourself.....
I've had the same thing happen when I'm installing on a car, a couple of people say they know the owner and don't think I'm him because I am working on a car. :D...I love the look on their face when they get handed my card.
 
What you gona do when the Yankees pull up lame with that payroll they got? I want to know now so that there are no excuses for you to fallow through when you are out of the playoffs. :26: Winning over the Red Sox is not enough. Nothing short of a World Series Ring for you guys with that stacked deck is acceptable. :sifone:
 
We've got an real EX racer here in town that EVERY time I go to the ramp, I have to hear from a different person of his exploits. He is a paid Mercury racer, He is paid to race boats in the Middle East, he is the universal galaxy champion, he is faster than greased moose poop.......I just say wow really , that's cool & go about my business.

German?
 
What you gona do when the Yankees pull up lame with that payroll they got? I want to know now so that there are no excuses for you to fallow through when you are out of the playoffs. :26: Winning over the Red Sox is not enough. Nothing short of a World Series Ring for you guys with that stacked deck is acceptable. :sifone:


It was the stereo guy putting the check in the mail but asking for the address where to mail it to!!!!:sifone::sifone::sifone:
 
a sales guy at a company we used to do business told me that he was a driver back in the 80's for the big Miss Madison hydroplane (now Umberto beef jerky) I had a feeling this was BS so I PM'd Steve David. Steve put me in touch with a guy that had all the records from day one with the names of everyone that had ever been part of the team. Funny his name was nowhere to be found, nor could anyone remember him. I am sure the guy had no idea what easy access I had to Steve David and how I could check his story out. I never said anything to him, just to some of his coworkers who laughed and said he has been telling that story forever.
 
I like meeting old dudes like that. At least he's not a hater...or a tree hugging kayaker! :26:

A couple years back, I pulled into a local marina for fuel and this old buck walked over and told stories of how he raced boats back in the 70's. He claimed to race a Pantera. We shot the bull for a few minutes, he'd just got back into boating and bought himself a new Crownline cuddy.
Several weeks later I was tinkering with my Cig at the dock and the old dude pulled up. He handed me a stack of old offshore race boat pictures from the late 70's. He had pics of his old race boat, a Pantera named "Mr Mean" and then pulled out a Bennihana Grand Prix jacket with lots of cool patches. He needed a hand changing his oil and then gave me the jacket and pics.

We're all gonna be a bunch of old goats full of war stories someday!!!:sifone:


Awesome story!
 
I LOVE stories like this. Chick in a bar in Cadillac this winter who was tellin us about the motors on her dad's boat that had TWO superchargers on each one had me rollin'. She also mentioned "the guy he bought that boat from" down in Florida that had a boat that went 207. It was KILLING me!

Now thats funny!:26::biggrinjester::rofl:
 
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