Bert Called the Allison Boats a Tennesee
WherE I got Bullet, I don't recall..Tennesee is what he called them..Is Allison from TEnnesee? Why do I still not think it was an Allison...??
When you Guys talk to Bert, maybe he can post some pictures...
When Scotti send about ten or twenty boat to OMC, OMC RACING made the decision, well this boat is the heaviest, and who is our heaviest driver?? Makes sense to me...Heaviest driver gets the heaviest boat....
They just didn't know Ron Hill that well... I set Top Time for Evinrude's 100 Mile An Hour Club with that Scotti...We won our Divison at Parker in 1973, and was first OMC, third overall to two Merc...
As I always told Jack Leek, weight doesn't matter, as long as it is on the gas pedal!!!!
I thought, Waltzing Matilda was Bert's boat's name!!! (As we had to put that name on the Scotti he ran at Parker)...
Obsolete And Proud Of It ....
T2x,
Actually, at the 1979 Parker, I had a 2.0 Liter Mercury, I was 35, two kids, 6 and 2, I saw 122 MPH on my Keller, in a wood Molinari....I knew that after this race, I'd never go that fast again a race boat...I was going MOD VP Racing.
I have to be honest, my only dealings with Allison was through Big Orange Marine and Joe Burgess...Galatin, Tennessee...Never really thought where Allison's were built...and like I said before, Alan Stinson, won Parker with Jerry Walin, and I thought he built Allison's (Alan...thus the Al, Stinson, thus the son....Allison and Alan Stinson was from like PA...What I focus on, I remember, just never thought about Bert Hine's boats being called Tennesee's because I always thought they were called Bullets!!!
As far as that Mullet, Billy Don Pruett and Me, hell, yes we were big...in fact I'm still big...and you know, I always thought being big was an advantage too, especially with the women...(Somewhere, I have a boating paper that shows a fly over with Screaming Yellow Zonkers trailing it...and the next plane flys over pulling this thing that says, "Billy Don Prurett is a MULLETT)... Gary Peacok drove the Screaming Yellow Zonlers Craft, the Steven Speilbeg used the idea/sound for his Star War Movies...but have no clue about the Mullett...
Your Switzer project, so sweet......She'd be fun to run at the 2007 Blue Water Resort and Casino 300 Enduro..