Ratickle
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Yep, sure has to be real close, if not the boat.....
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Yep, sure has to be real close, if not the boat.....
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http://boatmad.com/forum/showthread.php?p=166353#post166353
Submitted a request with the Europeans...
How bout this project?!
http://boatmad.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14372
Submitted a request with the Europeans...
How bout this project?!
http://boatmad.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14372
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Thanks for the postings on the other forum......I think after the shipping and the cost to due that boat right i could buy daddy cool and ram some scorpion blower motors in it with a original paint job and be further ahead....
Keep them coming.....
Buoy
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Things are well.
Loving the desert.
Do you wanna buy a snow shovel and two windshield scrapers?? You're gonna need them soon.:sifone:
So do it!!
Daddy Cool would be an awesome ride to bring back.
She's been sitting for a long time now.
Whatever happened to Ratmans old Mich Light boat? I know he sold it before he fled the country:rofl:
I thought I remember hearing it was going to get turned into a CC by some fisherman guy.
Damn shame if that's what happened.
There ya go Mike, you need to save Daddy Cool before it turns into a CC.
Dude! Sweet!
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Mich Light was bought and finsihed by the owners of Daddy Cool. Crazy Greek Racing (the Bacchius'). They've been racing it in P4 for a couple years now, which is why Daddy Cool is for sale, if recollection serves me right.
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Ratickle
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Here is a link to SI archives. Preston Henn used to race Streaker.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1091381/index.htm
It was a weird, difficult day, rough and foggy. Big waves are usually caused by wind, which in compensation sweeps the fog away. But now there were both waves and fog, and as the boats smashed down from five-foot crests and compasses swung wildly, the visibility was less than half a mile. With Magoon temporarily dead in the water, Preston Henn, in the 38-foot Bertram Streaker, and Joel Halpern, current point leader in U.S. offshore competition, in the 38-foot Cobra Beep Beep, had raced into the lead—only to miss a 16-foot-high buoy in the fog and spend 20 minutes searching for it again. At least four of the other boats darted wildly about the ocean, thoroughly lost. And no one seemed able to locate the sponsor of the race, Japanese restaurateur Rocky Aoki (SI, March 1), in the 35-foot Cigarette named Benihana. Before the race Aoki had said, "It will be the first time in sports that a sponsor awards himself his own prize." Would the all-too-scrutable Aoki miss this opportunity to pat himself on the back? Maybe.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1091381/index.htm
It was a weird, difficult day, rough and foggy. Big waves are usually caused by wind, which in compensation sweeps the fog away. But now there were both waves and fog, and as the boats smashed down from five-foot crests and compasses swung wildly, the visibility was less than half a mile. With Magoon temporarily dead in the water, Preston Henn, in the 38-foot Bertram Streaker, and Joel Halpern, current point leader in U.S. offshore competition, in the 38-foot Cobra Beep Beep, had raced into the lead—only to miss a 16-foot-high buoy in the fog and spend 20 minutes searching for it again. At least four of the other boats darted wildly about the ocean, thoroughly lost. And no one seemed able to locate the sponsor of the race, Japanese restaurateur Rocky Aoki (SI, March 1), in the 35-foot Cigarette named Benihana. Before the race Aoki had said, "It will be the first time in sports that a sponsor awards himself his own prize." Would the all-too-scrutable Aoki miss this opportunity to pat himself on the back? Maybe.
Ratickle
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From Black Tornado in 2007
Preston Henn owned two Streaker;
in 1974-75 a 38' with double cockpit and a modified deck with a little wheel-house(see the posts #88-89-90 ).
In 1976 he bought a (new?) 38' Competition not in Kevlar 49 named Streaker again coloured in red and white.
In 1978 Henn raced with another (third) 38' this time in Kevlar 49,the Natural Light, coloured in sky-blue. I think that this boat was owned by the Anheuser boss Bernie Little like alls the boats that him sponsored.
In 1980 Dale Whittington drove that boat renamed Swap Shop and coloured in red-orange-yellow over the original colours.
It seem that this Natural Light now it's the restored like a Whittaker Moppie of Sammy James.
There wasn't a Streaker 3.
Preston Henn owned two Streaker;
in 1974-75 a 38' with double cockpit and a modified deck with a little wheel-house(see the posts #88-89-90 ).
In 1976 he bought a (new?) 38' Competition not in Kevlar 49 named Streaker again coloured in red and white.
In 1978 Henn raced with another (third) 38' this time in Kevlar 49,the Natural Light, coloured in sky-blue. I think that this boat was owned by the Anheuser boss Bernie Little like alls the boats that him sponsored.
In 1980 Dale Whittington drove that boat renamed Swap Shop and coloured in red-orange-yellow over the original colours.
It seem that this Natural Light now it's the restored like a Whittaker Moppie of Sammy James.
There wasn't a Streaker 3.
Dude! Sweet!
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Paul, do you have any familiarity with the story of the Wittingtons and Preston Henn? It has to be one of the most colorful in all of motor racing! :sifone:
Offshore Ginger
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It is the red and white one and has been for sale awhile .
MikeyFIN
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One of the most colorful yes but the Top price surely has to go to Vittorio Brambilla... the Monza Gorilla
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My dad and i took a blast in my magnum for his birthday 2 years ago, shot up to brownies and that bertram was sitting at the dock........He almost fell in the water he got so excited.....
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Spoke with the owner in person on saturday told me the boat was sold to a gentleman from dubai....
Good news is he is leaving it in miami at his summer home...
Offshore Ginger
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I just saw something about it being sold also and even though mag's are probably one of my all time favorite boats the 27 sport and the Starfire the Berts are kickass and built like a brick $hit house and in the bert line it is the Barron and 38 .:26:
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The Whittington's drove the boat in a Bimini race and lifted the first 15 feet of the deck with a stuff....it was just sitting there flapping like a seagull's wings. However, that is the boat that was restored so nicely and just sold to the guy from the middle east.....They are just fiberglass folks...they can be fixed and fixed again.
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