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Ron Hill Has Not Left The Building 2005-2017
2005, Hey All,
I went to Chowchilla.......OF COURSE, I left my camera on CHAD's computer when we went to the race......But it was SO HOT and we were SO BUSY....I probably would not have taken any pictures anyway...
We ran our new Gran Prix...(Old Berghauer Boat)....OF course, we never tested BEFORE the race....We ran Sat
The kneel downers had some great racing...I felt for two days I might be seeing HISTORY MADE as Gary Lewis drove LIKE THE CHAMPION HE IS...to four firsts on Saturday...and was on his way to four more Sunday....When Tammy Dawe ruined his PERFECT RECORD by winning A HYDRO...
Keep it up all, we have a SPORT TO SAVE...ONE CLASS AT A TIME!!!!
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March 7, 2008 Apple Valley Marine
Ok, yesterday, Dave Bryan...the outboard racer, Tinker George "Evil Knivel" Collinge and I headed for Apple Valley...
Fred Bowden told me to sell his three pit bikes, and I was thinking that would be a good job for Tinker George, as soon as his collar bones heals up from demoing his Honda Scooter...that he didn't sell...yet...
So, Dave I I went to John's Custom Marine to pick up Boat #34...A Stoker Mod VP that Fred asked me to pick up......Seems plans changed quickly here, so, we left the boat a John's...
We went to Tinker's....He's restoring his 280.....with one arm....Got Bottom pictures of that...
The flowers are ICE PLANT in bloom...pretty as hell....
Then, we headed for S and S Marine....TO check on the J Hydro progress..
Then, we met Ernie Dawe at Denny's...He needed stack pullers....and I had picked them up for him at the foundry....Gave Ernie money to buy plywood for our 45 KILO BOAT...
Then, we headed for Apple Valley Marine..
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Heading For Needles...and Parker
See you all at The Bluewater Resort and Casino Spring Classic...April 12-13, 2008...
New stickers on the Samari and we're good to go!
Thanks, Mike Leach for putting the tow bar on for me!!!!
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Every Been to a Banjo Tournament?
I don't know what it was really called but I called it a Boat Race without water...HOT, HOT, HOT and FUN...
Laurie's sister Betsey play the banjo in the BIGINNER DIVISION... Boat racing needs more "BANJO TOURNAMENTS"...a place for competition but fun was the MAIN STREAM...
www.boatracingfacts.com was at the tournament...
Check out my Blue Water Resort and Casino 300 boat... Pat brought her down from Fresno....Might just paint her all ORANGE and call her ARCADIAN. I'm sure if Jimmy Hauenstein was here, he'd drive with me...Freddy has to go to a UIM meeting so he can't drive with me.
Looking for sponsors, I'm maybe 5, 6...I'm a few thousand short...
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Memorial Day Weekend 2008
I talked to Al Stoker, that Baker that Pat bought with my money, is number two V Bottom out of Jerry Baker's shop. It is the first one with the notched bottom... And, the two four inch filler caps(Moon Caps as they were called) are in the original location as installed by John's Custom Marine.....Stay tuned, that boat will race agin..."No Boat Left Behind" is the motto for The Blue Water Resort and Casino 300 Enduro...
Let's see left for Needles with "Parnelli Jones" Stern....We kind of "KICKED" on Saturday, but Sunday we "GOT AFTER IT" and went to Chief Tito's Landing...His tribe is going back to their "ROOTS" and renaming themselves the Neuavi's...I think...
Picture 1: Clean 235 Evinrude, sold for $350...
Picture 2: Gas cap close up
Picture 3: Jimbo McConnell "Messing" with the APBA J propellers...(Comments of those props later..maybe MUCH later)..."ParnellI" getting "Warmed Up" to drive the Sea Doo...(Why the name "Parnelli" you ask????).
Picture 4: Jimbo not only looking at the APBA J props, he's looking at my props...I realize I'm not really the "KING" but I sure wish Jimbo would modify a few propellers, even if he just did them for ME...Jimbo knows props....But you ask him to rework one and he says, "Hello is this thing working?" Even when he's standing next to you....We've know each othe 50 years, but I'm still mad at him for driving the Black and White Scotti, with Ted May, and winning Parker......and getting on the cover of Powerboats...Freddy Hauenstein and I were second and we got one line in the magazine....and the month before, the black and whit boat was for ME!!!!!!!!!and Freddy...Until Jimbo tested it...I guess after 35 years, I shoul;d "let it go"....
Picture 5: My daughter's back and youngest granddaughter...
Picture 6: Granddaughter in chair....Jimbo did the painting....Actually, not sure who did the painting on that chair, but Jimbo and I agreed that if MY OLD MAN had have been there, He'd have thrown the chair in the trash! Jimbo and I both miss my OLD MAN...We really don't have anyone to yell at us anymore!!!
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Chemehuevi Indian Tribe (Havasu Landing Resort & Casino
Tito tells me the Tribe is going back to their original name, but forgot what it was...Something like Neuvis...
Picture One: This is Tito Smith, Tito's air conditioner was working great...He had the Needles area cooled down to the mid 80's...perfect...
Picture Two: This old boat, (Red) is The Tiger, built by Cliff Bedford...Sad to see a proud boat like the Tiger...sitting in a lonely spot on the desert...
Picture three: Mud Prop on a Mud "HUNTER'S" Boat...
Picture Four: Mud Buddy Motor and prop....Add a Skeg like a racer and put this on a HYDRO...
Picture Five: Some more "Every ****" I got...Do I find deals or what???
Picture Six: ...Daughter and granddaughter enjoying the river....Any QUESTIONS AS TO WHY I LIKE THE RIVER???? Parnelli Jones Stern is out on the river....with the Sea Doo.....
Pictures Seven and eight....Stacker trailer.....
Dago Fast, you need a trailer?, I'll sell you this stacker...It really ain't mine, but will sell it anyway...I could LOAN IT TO YOU...
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Not Looking for Sympathy, Just an FYI
Had some skin cancer removed today..50 stitches...
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Oh Lord, I Get Better Looking Each Day
Thanks for all the support....and not just about my skin cancer....It is great to have lots of friends....
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Skin Cancer is Doing Well
Seems I'm pretty again...Now only need an eye lift on the other eye...
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Seems I Went to NY Via Washington DC
My grand Niece, Marlee Hill, went to Washington DC with her class the only sovenir she brought back was this one...I've sang Johnny Cash's Ira Hayes song nearly a million times...
I brought you home a sovenir from Whitney Point, New York Nationals...I guess I don't have a picture of the new B and H Hydro I bought....New to US, as it was built for Brent Dillard a few years back, I bought it from Tomm Nuccio. Who I had not seen since 1976 in Hinton, West Virginia...
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John Peeters Works, And Others Do Too!!!
One thing I REALLY liked about Whitney Point, NY, 2008 was that i saw and heard most drivers working, womewhere, sometime...This is OUR sport we need to do more than race...Great job. all..
Here is John Peeters check fuel...REAL bad picture of Fred Hauenstein....
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Went To Apple Valley Marine
Went to Apple Valley Marine to get the BMB Storage Parker boat and get my rebuilt CLE gearcases... While I was there with Tinker Collinge and Dave Bryan, I thought I'd pick up two of the five Merc 500's Tinker and I had found at Apple Valley on the last trip...
Instead we found four new Merc 500's...I am planning on building up a D Mod or two....Tinker and I don't have enough projects...
How about these pipes?? Water injected...
John Banicci's capsuled PC at S and S Marine.... Dave Bryan and Tinker watching Micke Schwarzenbach work.
Last picture is of Danny's Schwarzenbach's Evinrude 36.....And again I'll say, "BEST OUTBOARD CLASS IN APBA." Our Commodore, Race Chhairman and patrol Boats were always the 36 drivers.....Much like the Sport C GENTLEMEN in Region 11.......(Patrol Boats anyway)...
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We Took A Break and Went Ice Skating
Laurie Stern (Brandel) was once a National Champion skater. Her sister is in town from Idaho and brought some extra skates along..
We went skating: Bunker, Annette, Corey, Chad, Matt, Jessica, Russ, Carolyn, Broc, Reese, Peyton and me...(Laurie's sister and husband...).
A great time was had...Finished with a bar-b-que at our house....
Laurie and sister can skate.....
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15 Johnson....Jeff Conant's 45 SS
AZ Outlaw may have a 45 "RIDE" at Havasu Landing...
I've got Chris Chamberlin working on THE BLACK REVOLUTION....
Dave Bryan and I are shortening two 15 Johnson mid sections to see how they will work on a J/A Hydro with a stock gearcase...
Quick story.......
Well I go to Chad's and pick up the Black Revolution and head for Chris'...
I'm cooling it in the right lane going about 60....I notice a CHP (California Highway Patrol) cruising back a ways....I somewhat panic, realizing I had no license plate, non working taillights and no safety chain.... (Who needs a safety chain right???).
Anyway, the CHP dude passes me, ALMOST, then slows and pulls in behind me...The BIG ONE...I feel like Fred Sanford...I know I'm going to have a heart attack...Of course, the traffic ahead of me slows and I have to use my brakes...So now, the CHP dude knows my brake lights don't work and I don't have any tail lights. So, I put on the blinker, that doesn't work and change lanes...The CHP dude gets off the freeway...while I'm checking my shorts.....
So, Chris and I unload the boat and I haul out of Eat at Joe's....GREAT pastrami sandwiches...Last thing Chris says, "Remember you have a trailer behind you..."
I stop at Eat at Joe's...Get out...No TRAILER.............I call Chris and ask if he unhooked the trailer...He said, "NO."...
I back track...and at Home Depot, there were twenty laborers sitting on a nice boat trailer.....$20 later, I was going down the road with my trailer...Maybe, I'll get the safety chain hooked up....
Chris's Mustang..
Dave Bryan's saddle for his Tohatsu "D"..
My 15 Johnson...
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Ron and Chad's 45 Back Up Stuff
1. Gran Prix that was Bill Ruckers. Then Garland Powells. Loaned to JohnLane. Then Broc Hill's. Current on loan to Tito Smith Jr. For Sale for $5,000 turn key, no trailer. Tito has said he'll buy it, when his taxes come back!!!!!
2. Gran Prix that was The Berghausers. Then a guy's in Vegas, Then Chad ran it for two years. Currently rerigging it and Clive Wilkins is going to run it at Havasu Landing. $5,000 turn key, no trailer. Clive may buy the package.
3. Black Revolution, Chris Chamberlin is repairing all damage, Jeff Conant of Trafficade Fame has been offered the use of the boat. $5,000 turn key, no trailer...
I'd take $2,500 for the Berghauer Gran Prix or the Black Revloution...AND might consider getting it to the Winter Nationals...
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Revolution Getting A Make Over...
Chris Chamberlin is doing a beautiful job getting the Black Revolution ready for paint...Fixed all holes...and cracks...
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Why I Might NOT Get A New Trailer....
Well......A new BEAMER and Sara Palin glasses.......What's next, new boy friend????
I never like Honda drivers.....but SHE had a Honda, So....
But I always disliked BEAMER drivers MORE...So.....
I guess and man can deal with it!
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Capsule Training at Chris's...
I hear Scott, Missy, and Mike Schatz, Bob Williams all want to get capsuled trained. Chris Chamberline has offered his pool for the "DUNK" tank...He needs to get trained and so does Clive....
I just wanted everyone to know I'm still working on a second Rescue boat...I have Chris working on the boat and Chad working on the motor...
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New Shop for HillMarine.Com
Our new shop:
Hill Marine
2683 Halladay Street
Santa Ana, California 92705
714-855-2986
1-714-608-7147 Ron's cell
Off Dyer between Main and Grand
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What Did Frank Banducci Buy???
By the way, the sign on the building IS STRAIT (not GAY)....straight...whatever, we measured it...
Frank bought Broc's Gran Prix and a trim ram...I made him a deal...I'd throw in a trailer and a boat on the deal....Bunker and I are delivering these things to Frank tomorrow....
Ain't that Tahati a beauty??? Them new five blades is pretty too!
See you at 11 tomorrow Frank lunch at the Mexican joint that serves Chinese food...Stopping to see Fred Hauenstein's mom, too!