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    Default Re: John Webster

    Hi Brian,
    Thanks for the update.
    Hopefully he will post on this thread and let us know if
    my memory's were correct.
    EZ

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    Quote Originally Posted by ezryder View Post
    Hi Brian,
    Thanks for the update. Hopefully he will post on this thread and let us know if
    my memory's were correct.
    EZ
    I will see him in three weeks at a TORC swap meet in Picton, ON to start off our season. John gave up his computer when he stopped racing.
    I was wondering if the date was 1954 ?
    as [I think] John is about 75, and the man in the pic looks 25 or so. It can not be much later as he was one of the 1st to buy a 20H.
    When i get back to FL next fall I will come up to see your stuff, that is if the tornadoes clear out

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    Hi Brian,
    I think that photo was taken in '54 as you stated. I'm not 100 % sure, but I think it was. The photo was taken at
    Lake Alfred, Fla. I know that for sure. Don't know why I know that, but I do.
    Looking forward to any comments he may have about the photo.

    When you get down this way, give me a call at 352 259 0682 and I'll be sure we can get together. It would be great to meet you!

    I noted your avatar -- looks like your posing with either a PR or SR Johnson racing motor. My dad had both motors back when I was racing with him.
    He started me racing in M hydro in 1948, when I was 8 years old.

    Thanks for sharing your memory's.
    EZ

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    Quote Originally Posted by ezryder View Post
    I noted your avatar -- looks like your posing with either a PR or SR Johnson racing motor
    1933 Johnson PR65,
    a west coast motor,
    Toprahanian/Hubbell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark75H View Post
    A cracked rod is formed as one piece and broken into 2 for the big end split. The broken edges match back up to bolt together.

    An odd thing about the 20H specs a lot of places ... it is incorrectly listed as weighing 3 times as much as a Hot Rod where the real weight difference is closer to half.

    I think you are correct on all counts.
    Hi Sam,
    You win! I'll be at the world championships in Lake
    Alfred later this year -- and I'll pay off! "Cracked rods" are history now days.
    Still, a good idea for the time.
    Only a total idiot could have bolted the rod together wrong.
    But I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that more than one idiot did! Hehe!!

    EZ

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    Quote Originally Posted by ezryder View Post
    Hi Brian,
    Thanks for the update.
    Hopefully he will post on this thread and let us know if
    my memory's were correct.
    EZ
    I had a chat with John Webster at the TORC SWAP meet in Picton, ON yesterday. He says that he 1st went to FL in 1957, did run a utility then, but never took one to FL, only hydros. He was not absolutely certain, but did not think
    that was he in the picture you are posting.
    So I am sure you raced against him in the late '50s,
    and probably he is in some of your pix.
    I should be back in Sebring by NOV,
    and will call you then.
    Brian

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    Quote Originally Posted by BRIAN HENDRICK View Post
    I had a chat with John Webster at the TORC SWAP meet in Picton, ON yesterday. He says that he 1st went to FL in 1957, did run a utility then, but never took one to FL, only hydros. He was not absolutely certain, but did not think
    that was he in the picture you are posting.
    So I am sure you raced against him in the late '50s,
    and probably he is in some of your pix.
    I should be back in Sebring by NOV,
    and will call you then.
    Brian
    Thanks for the update Brian. I took another check of the pictures and the year was definitely 1954. So I guess that rules him out.
    Looking forward to meeting you this fall.
    George

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    Default I'm still Kick'n!!

    Hi everyone,
    Just thought I'd post a short note to let everyone know that I'm still around.
    Been so busy with my "re berth" and working on my projects in my race shop that I've not had the time to add to my thread.

    I'm busy building up a 20H "popper" from all the stuff I've acquired in the last couple of months. And having LOTS of FUN doing it!
    I've kinda "dropped the ball" on my musings about my past. But have faith --- I'll be back!
    Regards,
    ezryder

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    looking very much forward to your musings George. I timed out on my pm to you, but I think it should go through. If not....do it again.



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    Default I'm BAACK!!!

    Just when everyone was drawing a sigh of relief, thinking I had vanished for good too! But like your worse nightmare, I'm BAAAACK, with more of my musings from my "misspent" youth!

    Been really busy ever since my Daytona adventure working with my recently acquired collection of old race boats and motors.
    Having lots of FUN in my race shop these days.

    However, right now I'm stuck in the house, recovering from going "under the knife" a few days ago. Nothing major, but I did have to get
    a chunk of cancer carved outa my face. Basel cell type, so I should be
    ok after the plastic surgery heals up. This in not my first go round with this.
    And not my last either. I have another to go through in a couple of months. Most likely my problems have been brought on by my life style
    in my youth. Always in the sun, you know. Hell, I never even had to put on any protection from sun burn because I never lost my tan. Being a surfer tends to do that to you, don't 'ya know!

    Anyway, I figured this is a great time to tell a bit more of my ongoing story. And I'm going to do it mostly in pictures.
    Years ago Sheila did up a great colleague of my racing history to hang on our wall.
    You will have to excuse the quality of the pictures as I did not want to destroy the colleague by removing all the photos from it to scan into the computer.
    So what I did was take photographs of all the pictures and then do as much photo shopping as I could to make them look decent.

    I'm going to limit each post to one picture. That way I can comment on it in a meaningful way.
    It's meant to be a short summary of my racing history into the middle eighties.

    I hope everyone enjoys it --- Looking forward to your comments.
    It begins on the next post.
    Regards,
    EZ (George)

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