I would say that was a 18ft Molinari Omc did begin taking delivery of these Marathon boats in 1977 they were supplied for the Paris 6hr race oct 1977 and all but one shipped over to the US after the race` they were heavy boats.Molinari and Hering started using a smaller Molinari even for marathon races this picture shows this boat having front and rear deck air splitters his later boats had only rear air splitters?.
Bill, thanks for the photos! Good to see Terry Leatherby. Hev have one of his old trophies to congratulate me on my first win. Good memories of him and Nancy.
You are welcome. Here's another one of Terry running SJ class at Rockford, Illinois in the boat your dad built. I think this was in 1976. My dad is in the Hydrostream, #328 running MOD 90 at the time. The race was a 15 minute 'mini-marathon where SJ and MOD 90 were combined.
Barry averaged 120 MPH for the first lap. Don't forget this year's Blue Water Resort and Casino 336, October 24, 2014.
It should be fun, Blue Water Resort is SOLD OUT and so are many hotels and motels in town.
Hi Ron is Barry Woods still around?if anyone ever went out with the OMC guys Ziggy Mouse and Barry Woods for a drink at night they were in for a real experience boy was he wild he drove hire cars like he drove racing boats` I only did it a few times when they were over in Europe but he must be around your age now Ron.I can remember he went missing from racing boats for 1 or maybe 2 yrs I was told he had been out at night with friends and got thrown out of a Corvette and a car hit him coming the other way I am not sure if this was true but he was out of action for a while?.Does anybody else have any stories about Barry?.
My starter wife worked for the Airlines, so we got great deals on tickets. She planned a trip between Paris and Berlin races. I told Barry, his wife Margarite, Bill Seebold and Lynn Seebold of our plans. Barry and Billy wanted to go with us. Seems Bill Welch and his wife (Bill was a Mercury wrench)....So, we fly to Lisbon, Portugal and rented two cars and headed for Spain. Barry and Billy had to drive. I think they started that European Rally Racing that day. I probably should have stopped both cars, and kicked there asses, but at the time I thought it was funny. They drove like "LOONS" all day.
When we finally found a town big enough to eat at, it was about 6:30 in the evening, no lunch and racing across Portugal had us all on edge. By the time my turn came to use the bathroom, everybody was already served tomato soup with rice. When I came back to the table, everyone was down with there soup. I looked at my soup and asked, "Why is my rice moving?" It wasn't rice, it was maggots. Welch wife got up a "BLEW CHUNKS" out the back door and told, Bill, she was going back to Wisconsin tomorrow and he could come if he wanted, but she was going home.
The "STORY" of Barry's "ACCIDENT" that I heard, was that, "Yes he'd been drinking and went around a freeway off ramp to fast in his Datsun 280 and the door came open, when he reached to close the door, the door pulled him out of the car, and his own car ran over him and screwed him up pretty bad.
Barry and his wife, Margarite own jet airplane that they lease out and Barry flies it roughly all the time. Margarite planned a 70th birthday party for Barry about 5-6 years ago, but she could never find a weekend when he wasn't working. I'm not sure I'd have gone anyway, as Portland, Oregon is like 1,000 to 1,200 from here!
I gave Barry the name, "KING" as he always wanted to be NUMBER ONE.#36 is Randy Pierson, from Avon, Minnesota.
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Randy did most of Barry Wood's "Set Up" work during the Formula 1 V-8 days.
After all of my reminding and correcting, you still can't get the "tomato soup" story right! My wife just read your version and said "That man has it all wrong", but we were laughing anyway because it is a fun memory. It was 72, the only time Peggy was able to join me on a trip to Europe. The plan was for her to stay with us through the Berlin Six Hour, but the boys cancelled the factory attendance at that event after seeing what they had left to race with after Paris. Lynne asked if we'd like to join you guys on the Gibraltar run, it sounded like it might be fun so we did. We had to kill a week before she could fly home anyway, adjusting her ticket to leave early would have been expensive. By the way, much to my regret, I was the one that insisted we eat at that particular restaurant. I was convinced that it looked "clean" !
Shifting gears, I recall that Jim Wagner was the #2 man in the OMC racing division. The impression I had was that Jack called the shots and Jim had to see that things got done. Get boats rigged, motors built, set a travel itinerary, etc. Are those the kind of things Jim was responsible for? Was he in charge when Jack was not around? How did that group function, who did what?
I think Jim Wagner was the #2 man up the the end of 1974. After that Paul Kalb was the second man in racing for OMC under Jack Leek.
Paul was running OMC racing in Europe and there was a lot of racing in Europe.
Did see Jim at some races after 1974 but he did not have much power.
Charlie Strang and the OMC President for Europe Beat Jenni was in charge of racing after Paul Kalb was out.
1983/84 GG and Second Effort took over.
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