Antique/Classic Trophy

[Ron Hill]

I got to looking at my dad's 1941 trophy from San Diego....I had my mold maker make a "Down and Dirty" copy.... My goal is to make some trohphies to give out at Antique/Classic meets...

[Ron Hill]

Well, as usual, the first part came out of the mold, but not whichout some problems...I have to move the fill hole for the wax injection...

So, there goes another week or two...

Check it out though, I think she'll make some "COOL" classic throphies...

Is this what "RETIREMENT" is really about??? Fooling with stuff you want to fool with... Let's see, if I make these trohpies for $80 each (I'm going to cast them in stainless and polish them....and give them away, how many would I have to give away until I broke even??? Wait, how many would I have to give away until I went broke, would be the correct question....

The trophy was my dad's...I'm sorry we broke the boat making the mold....but....my dad had thrown the trohy out and I got it out of the trash, so!!!!

[Ron Hill]

Well, they've cost much more than expected, but what is new??? They are stainless steel and I had them polished..I think I'll run them through my prop polishing machine...

As I was figuring..If they cost me $75 each, how many do I have to give away before I get my money back???

OLDALKY: Doc Schaffer took us (my dad, mom and me) to the Flood Control Channel "CULB HOUSE" (Judges Stand) early June, 1955. I had raced my first race at Bakersfield and made the final 12...(May 23, 1955)...And about a month later there was a race at De Anza Cove and at Lake Millerton, Fryant Dam, Fresno...The same day.

My brother was just about out of the U.S. Army or was out of the Army, I really wanted him to see me race....But he went to Fresno and as I recall, he didn't race...I had been to De Anza Cove and had walked around it with YOU...or as far as you can go around it...Anyway, it seemed small and my first lap, I spun out before the start...and got a late start, caught two guys and failed to qualify....for the final heat.

Lee Morehouse told me it was just as good that my brother didn't come...He said, "There'd be other chances..."
That after noon, Doc took us on a tour and said, "From now on, we'd be racing at the Flood Control Channel..."

Bunker Hill, Ted May and I were the last guys to ever run a boat in the flood control channel...Winter of 1976-77. We could only run about one lane up and back and then, only when the tide was in... Sad as The FLOOD CONTROL Channel was a great racing place...not very good for the pit crews to watch....

Where are you living now... Yuma or in the islands???

I listed one on e-bay... http://cgi5.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws2/eBayISAPI.dll just in case someone whated one!

[Ron Hill]

Satin finished the side and the strip down the deck... Look better??

Need a bigger box for the bottom??? Taller would look better...

Hey, Oldalky..when you get back to Yuma...drop me and e-mail and I'll come and wear out my welcome...

[John Howe]

Years ago I was helping, at least that`s what I told them I was doing, the Daily`s move from Miami to Stuart Florida. The Daily family had been racing flatbottoms since about the time God created water. There were trophys stashed all over the house and shop, in closets, in cabinets, shelves and under benches. Most of them were hitting the trash pile with the move. From time to time Duff would find one that he had forgot about and announce that they would keep it. If he found one that he liked that was damaged he told his wife to save it so she could repair it with parts from others that he really didn`t want. She, Rhonda, would just smile and say, "Yes, of course dear." She would take the trophy, wrap it up and place it a box. Half the trophys Duff couldn`t even remember winning. Later, as I was leaving, I noticed the box that Rhonda had packed the "to be repaired" trophys into sitting in the trash pile. They did indeed keep some of the nicer, and memorable, ones.