It sure was great seeing both of you there! Congrats to you and Bill on 90!!! I have known both of you for half of those years and I'm only 54!!
Chris
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It sure was great seeing both of you there! Congrats to you and Bill on 90!!! I have known both of you for half of those years and I'm only 54!!
Chris
Ok Wayne, I want to throw a monkey wrench into the year of the picture. The C Service Hydro picture further up in the thread has my Dad racing his Merc on an 11'3" Byers (You can see pipe puller on...
Dale,
Thanks for posting these. I can't believe all the names I recognize! I also learned my Dad raced off of Long Island at 19 years old. I had not previously know until I saw the results of...
Hi John! Actually Pete Hellsten riding with Doug Bindrum!
Frank,
My dad only built one 4-cylinder C service. We didn't have much luck with it and I'm not sure where it wound up. The crank work in this one is not something we normally did.
The steel...
Eric,
I was at Jesup, Ga a couple weeks ago and saw the famous 250ccH hydro that won 1984national championship on Danny William's trailer. She looked ready to roll! We are all still racing...
Tom,
Can you give me any info or pictures on the motor shown to the right of the 8 cylinder in the first picture. I believe it is a Konig 125. My dad, Pete Hellsten, built that for me when I...
Hey Wayne I found the newspaper article from the 77' Alex race!
Wayne,
Thanks for posting. I know my family will get a kick out of this. I sent an e-mail to my sister to make sure my 3 nephews who have been racing with me and her for the past 3 or 4 years...
Great pictures Wayne. Brings back lots of memories. I was 11 years old at that 77' race in Alex and must be somewhere in the Novice 350 photo. Dan Kirts asked me to drive Jim Kirt's boat since he...
42 Years later we still have the same issues!!!