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    The 727 motor was a 173CI & then further updated to a 183 CI V6 Looper powerhead. It was better powerhead than the then current CCC powerhead. For some unknown reason OMC did not put it into production. IT WAS a MERC KILLER.

    MORE INFO HERE!!!!! . http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forum...ead.php?t=1055

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    Default OZ F1 Molinari

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Size:  56.2 KBSome more pictures of the beasty, I hope this is to your li king!!!!

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    It's workin for Me ,Cuzz I got to get out thare, But i don't have to come Back and mite Not.

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    I'm sure Bert called the Allison boats a Tennesee here. As a kid I grew up about 1 km from a circuit called Cabarita, Bert Hines was a bit of a hero of mine, the Scotti you refer to did well here and was called Waltzing Matilda with a Strangler on the back. A guy called Ron Wren I think got a world speed record with either that boat or one similar with a Strangler, was that ON, OE was the 3 cyclinder and OZ was unlimited if I recall correctly.

    He had many battles with a great driver here called Bob Halliday, Bob was a Merc man and Bert OMC.

    heh that boat of Don's is a beauty, tell him Mark Evans and I say hello, and if we put another event on here I get in contact with him to run a demo in it. The crowd would love it on display. Is Don still running offshore?

    130mph to race in a boat with no cell is too quick though, those days are over IMO. Just go and have fun.

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    Default Bert Called the Allison Boats a Tennesee

    WherE I got Bullet, I don't recall..Tennesee is what he called them..Is Allison from TEnnesee? Why do I still not think it was an Allison...??

    When you Guys talk to Bert, maybe he can post some pictures...

    When Scotti send about ten or twenty boat to OMC, OMC RACING made the decision, well this boat is the heaviest, and who is our heaviest driver?? Makes sense to me...Heaviest driver gets the heaviest boat....

    They just didn't know Ron Hill that well... I set Top Time for Evinrude's 100 Mile An Hour Club with that Scotti...We won our Divison at Parker in 1973, and was first OMC, third overall to two Merc...

    As I always told Jack Leek, weight doesn't matter, as long as it is on the gas pedal!!!!

    I thought, Waltzing Matilda was Bert's boat's name!!! (As we had to put that name on the Scotti he ran at Parker)...
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    OK Guy, that is looking really great. I'm getting excited just seeing it, these guys have no kahunas , let me know when it's going to get wet and I'll come down with my helmet, jacket and might even deliver a gearbox to you at the same time.

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    Default mulinari

    got to say,,,,,
    that that is an "awsome job" that was done on the boat,,,,,,
    it looks great,,,,,
    i bought a hodges 140 boat a few yrs back,,,
    that has the same non capsule ,,,cockpit,,
    never been raced and perfect condition
    we are to repaint it and put it back on the water some day with the 140 set up

    if any other person has 1 of these non capsule hulls being restored
    i have an extra cockpit and rear cowling that has never been painted/mounted on a boat
    that came extra with the hodges
    john

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    Quote Originally Posted by onwatermarineservices
    . I'm getting excited just seeing it, these guys have no kahunas , let me know when it's going to get wet and I'll come down with my helmet, jacket and might even deliver a gearbox to you at the same time.
    I beg to differ.......These "guys" have big Kahunas...... We also have lost many friends who have died in boats a lot milder than that overpowered V-8 Moli.

    What that boat needs is cautious, controlled respect ....not over enthusiastic bravado.

    Don't mean to put a damper on a beautiful project...... I simply want to urge restraint in using it.....That boat can give years of sensible pleasure....or a nano second of disaster.

    Best wishes,

    T2x

    P.S. I have a project of my own that makes that thing look like a snail...but I never intend to run it over 100 mph....unless I put a full safety cockpit, oxygen, hans device...etc, etc...into the equation.
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    OBSOLETE AND PROUD OF IT

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    Quote Originally Posted by RonHill
    WherE I got Bullet, I don't recall..Tennesee is what he called them..Is Allison from TEnnesee? Why do I still not think it was an Allison...??
    Ron: Allison is was and always will be from Tennessee...........

    Quote Originally Posted by RonHill
    As I always told Jack Leek, weight doesn't matter, as long as it is on the gas pedal!!!!
    I always thought that being heavier gave guys like you and Pruett an advantage in gusty and rough conditions, because the utra light tunnel bow lift was significantly offset by your...er...um.....ballast.

    T2x
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    Default Obsolete And Proud Of It ....

    T2x,

    Actually, at the 1979 Parker, I had a 2.0 Liter Mercury, I was 35, two kids, 6 and 2, I saw 122 MPH on my Keller, in a wood Molinari....I knew that after this race, I'd never go that fast again a race boat...I was going MOD VP Racing.

    I have to be honest, my only dealings with Allison was through Big Orange Marine and Joe Burgess...Galatin, Tennessee...Never really thought where Allison's were built...and like I said before, Alan Stinson, won Parker with Jerry Walin, and I thought he built Allison's (Alan...thus the Al, Stinson, thus the son....Allison and Alan Stinson was from like PA...What I focus on, I remember, just never thought about Bert Hine's boats being called Tennesee's because I always thought they were called Bullets!!!

    As far as that Mullet, Billy Don Pruett and Me, hell, yes we were big...in fact I'm still big...and you know, I always thought being big was an advantage too, especially with the women...(Somewhere, I have a boating paper that shows a fly over with Screaming Yellow Zonkers trailing it...and the next plane flys over pulling this thing that says, "Billy Don Prurett is a MULLETT)... Gary Peacok drove the Screaming Yellow Zonlers Craft, the Steven Speilbeg used the idea/sound for his Star War Movies...but have no clue about the Mullett...

    Your Switzer project, so sweet......She'd be fun to run at the 2007 Blue Water Resort and Casino 300 Enduro..
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