Quote Originally Posted by Gene East View Post
Quincy came out with pipes at the beginning of the 1959 racing season (I was still in high school). I returned from the Navy in 1962.

Arlen and Freddie Goehl moved to Bryan, TX either in '63 or '64 to form Bryan Marine. I know they were not with QW at the 1964 Championships at Lake Spivey.That would mean the picture was no earlier than 1959 and not later than 1963. My GUESS is 1961.

BTW: That is NOT the Quincy dam in the background. Too many trees!
Actually, Chris developed the Quincy pipes in the fall of 1958 following a serious butt kicking at the NOA Nationals in McAlester. Vera (Mrs. Christner) was at that race and made the statement, "You've got to make those motors faster"!

Wives can be so cruel!

A great deal of testing was done by Chris and his son David at Twin Oaks that fall, but the pipes weren't raced until 1959.

A set of "B" pipes was sent to Mercury that fall for evaluation.

If you round out and straighten the original welded up 20-H toilet bowl pipes, you'll find they would be very similar to the Quincy pipes.

Hmmmmm?