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    I was a Johhny Cash fan before I ever met Marshall Grant.

    Every alky racer is familiar with Masrhall's "Ring of Fire", quite possibly the most famous boat in outboard racing.

    My favorite however, was "A Boat Named Sue"!

    RIP: Johnny Cash, Marshall Grant, Carl Perkins, Luther Perkins

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    My first boat was considered a E Mod back in the early 50s. The name that came with it was Slip-N-Round. It was a Voss built runabout designed for the rough waters of Long Island. Had a Sid Hornet named Bad News. It was as named. Liked to snap roll and Blew a 20H. I moved up to Sea Jay runabouts, named my CU, CU Later. Next CU was named CU Too. Never named my C/D alky boat.
    My racing came to an end in 1970 with a change of jobs. Good move with the job, bad move with racing.

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    I should mention the name "Titanic" - not the original ill fated ocean liner but a DeSilva Runabout I decided to try using in A and B stock. I painted it black and applied the name in gold decals. The very next day, I took it out to Fremont Marine Stadium for testing. When I emerged from the pits for my first run, a D hydro running at full bore hit the DeSilva broadside and my rig immediately sunk. One part of the boat that was left totally intact was a piece just the right size that still had the name I had christened it with the night before. Maybe names do have an effect!

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    Those are some good stories about the boat names.

    Marshall also had a boat named Miss Folsom.

    Tom Goslee's C Service runabout was "Slo-Poke".

    Jack Chance had a runabout with a skunk painted on it called "Lil Stinker".

    Seacow....you might be right that names have an effect. Tim Butts built us a C/D Aerowing and it snowed on it on the way back from Michigan. It had snow on it until a couple of days later when it melted somewhere between Dallas and Austin, Texas. It had a seal coat, but the deck still warped. My Dad screwed three strips of 3/4 inch half round on each side to bring up the depressions. Tim wouldn't stand for that though, and he replaced the deck. After we got it back and had it painted we named it Texas Tornado. I raced two heats of 500 hydro and two heats of 700 hydro with it. The next weekend we went to Baytown, Texas where I stuffed it on the back straight of the first lap doing about 90. The boat looked O.K. from the outside, but the stringers got crooked. Tim took the bottom off and replaced the stringers, but I missed all but the final race of 1975 due to severe neck injuries. We never raced that boat again, and sold it to Jim McKean in late 1975 or early 1976.

    Tim built us a rough water Aerowing for racing in Europe. We named it "Tex". The last I heard of it the Butts was still in Berlin at Motor Rennen Club where they used it to train upcoming drivers. It's probably long gone by now though.

    As many of you know, Bill VanSteenwyk's wife Eileen was a stewardess. That meant Bill Van got very cheap tickets on most carrier's and I think maybe free flights for the company Eileen worked for. He had a Rhoades hydro with a martini looking glass (I believe) painted on it and in gold script over a maroon deck was the name "Champagne Flight".

    I should not admit this because I still feel a little guilty, but it seemed funny at the time. Pit man Johnny Bezecny and myself changed the name on a boat raced by a stock outboard racer at Lakeland, Florida around 1973. I don't know whose boat it was, but it was pitted a couple of trailers to our right and it was green. It was on the trailer when we did it. As Johnny and I strolled through the pits, the name just happened to catch our eyes and I think we both thought of the name change at about the same time. We found either white paint or something to make the change and it only took a second or two. The original name was "Chicken Plucker". The name was painted on by an amatuer and was only about two inches high and a single brushstroke about a half inch in width. All we did was change the lower case l in the word Plucker to an h. We never saw anyone react to it, but I hope the owner wasn't too mad and got a laugh when he finally noticed it.



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    C IT GO
    My brother Ken's CSH Marchetti that won the Nationals and High Point.

    Ken's Marchetti ASH was A OK GO and got his first National Hi Point title. My old man was into the space program and called us the Rocket Racing Team.

    We had other names like J Rocket and Pocket Rocket.

    I named all my stuff Bits and Pieces 1 to 5 as I raced with Clark Maloof, Bill Giles, Rick Weinstein, Doug Reed, Scotty Neal, Bob Austin and all the New York and New jersey bunch in A and B runabout. We would compete for the most duct tape used to patch holes.

    My Clarkraft BSR Duck was called Corn Popper

    Bill Rosado

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    Art Hatch, a Canadian ran 266 hydros names Cost ' a lotta, and Lott a' costa.

    Mahogany Rush was always one of my favorites, but it was taken by a guy who ran stocks on our circuit....Later, I found an American 225 was named Mahogany Rush as well.

    Dick Buller out of Oshawa Ontario ran a SS flatbottom named "Bullship"

    I named my last boat, the one you see in my avitar "Jefferson Starship"

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    " I moved up to Sea Jay runabouts, named my CU, CU Later. Next CU was named CU Too." Those were great names for CU. When I raced the class, I had a reputation as a conservative driver. Inspired by the tuna brand, my rig was named Chicken of the Cs.

    Hal Kelley's Foo-Ling was a pretty good name...

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    Jeff, you just reminded me of Tommy Hooten's C,D,F Marchetti. It was called "Bullshipper". He had a truck that he hauled cattle in for a living.

    Bill Seebold drove famous big band leader Les Brown's 7 liter one year in the early seventies. It was like Mike O'brians boat also called "Long Gone".



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    Very interesting names that I have seen or heard about over the years. Fun to here them brought up again.

    I also remember Obriens boat of Long Gone, Parons boats of Chuck Wagon, and Toy Box great memories.

    How Michael Obrien got his name at a race that someone here mentioned is similar to how Michael Lopez got his boat name for his FEH of Never Ending. He went the through the Kilos at Modesto and afterwards made a comment that the motor just kept getting faster and faster going through the traps so when he set the record he put down the name Never Ending.

    I also remember Lloyd Mize's boats of Flux Capacitor, Baby Bullet, and Bullet and always thought those were really different and never understood those even when he explained them all to me many times.

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    Default Jerry Waldman's Spookers....

    All his "ALKY" Boats were called "Spooker". I think the last one was Spooker XXIV.....but not sure that is right.


    I like Lee Sutter's name..."Sutter's Gold".

    Fred Bowden's boats were always "California Gold"....

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