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Paris 6 Hours 1979.

More about Paris Six Hours 1974 here..http://svera.se/blogg/paris-6-hours/very-happy-with-our-paris-6-hour-race-1974/

I think this is Briggs..!!..and Scottis boat before start.

Picture: Winrace, Norway

This was also good year for OMC..I raced OE..but no not remember Team Mercury pulling out
the day before the race..!!

Edit Jan. 25 2012

That is a fun picture Rotary John..

More fun reading about Paris 1973..and the new OMC V-6..
Where is Jackie Wilson..!!..:)

Ray Bulman reports on the Paris 6 hour.
Photographs by Eric Coltham

Check this out Jim and Rotary John..Great reading..

Wait..I have more..!!

Hi again Nerstrom...please tell us more............:)

Back in the early-mid seventies a Evinrude-Johnson racing jacket was really hot stuff..
OMC did lots of racing developments and was the...

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Mr. Rotary John himself at OMC Racing.. Bruges, Belgium just before Paris 1974..
I think it is a big honor to have meet you John..
I don't really remember that day outside the boat house...but my...

Here is a better picture John

and one picture from OMC Racing, Belgium a few days before Paris 1974

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I am pretty sure the boat directly here.. behind the #32 ON boat is my Clerici/Evinrude..!!

John..please..check your PM at FB..Lars..:)

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John..this is how I know there was Evinrude V-6 outboards in Paris 6 hours 1974..
I am on the inside..boat # 48..I think it is Briggs on the outside #30 with a Scotti boat-Evinrude V-6 ..

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I am pretty sure Scotti used a Evinrude V-6 at the time of the accident in
Paris 6 hours 1974..:)

I have more pictures..coming soon..must first go boating today..

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Thank you Rotary John for explaning the "mist" issue..!!

When I am reading this report 38 years later..I can see there was a problem with the "mist" when the Rotary boats where passing me in the...

I have seen Rotary John here today..

Well..one more thing..the yellow boat to the left in the picture have a young hungry driver
that finally got to start in the Paris 6 Hour race..!!:)

Hehe Ron..

Rush hour traffic at the river Seine, Paris.. Sunday, October 1974

I think the two first is Scotti Boats with the Rotary´s..

Remember the "mist" after the Rotary boats..hard to...

Red dots is the turning buoys..made out of concrete and a truck tire around.
The yellow dot is the place for the Statue of Liberty.
Race course was around 3 miles long.
Start 11 AM firm and finish...

More Lars Block R-114 from 1970..

To bad I can not be part in this year..My first Paris 6 Hours was 1973..well..I was in the pit with my boat..but no racing..long bad story.

The overall winner 1970..Boat # 12..Sanders-Posey..USA.

Sounds like fun Ron..

This entry list for Paris 6 Hours 1972 I got from Lars Block in Sweden..
He is the driver of the yellow 2 liter inboard boat # R - 114 same year.