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    Sam: It was merc that did the turbine and it was Karl that test drove it and blew the compressor and cut the boat in half, not OMC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jackie wilson View Post
    Might not have amounted to much to you my friend---but i got a great kick out of it----enjoyed the whole season and made my own mark in our sports history. Delighted a few--------pissed off a lot -----------can't have been that bad if people are still doing the same thing all over again today. Don't have any regrets about the project and would be interesting to put the two boats together------just for a demo run--------after all the boat is 20+' long and has just 400 hp from 3 liters with a nice smooth V8 against a new light composite boat with a 6cylinder lump of 3.5 liters shoving out 400 HP. Now that don't sound like there has been a whole load of progress in the boat business over the last 35 years. And if my son could put his mind to tweaking a modern day wheel for me-------i may be persuaded to try a hefty $10 bet on the outcome SO--------what did you drive that powerboat drivers the world over still talk about????????????
    You missed my point Jackie, I meant yours was ground breaking 30 years ago and they havn't moved very far today with that new thing from South Africa

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    Quote Originally Posted by Powerabout View Post
    You missed my point Jackie, I meant yours was ground breaking 30 years ago and they havn't moved very far today
    I humbly apologise--------------i got hold of the wrong end of the stick and totally missed your point. There were so many sceptics and critics and finger pointers about what i was doing with the 4 cycle motors---especially the dyed in the wool Jonrude and Mercury brigade. I was fighting all fronts and the battle never ended.

    GG and i had fallen out big time and i said i would come back without any help from either of the factories ------when i say something i mean it -------so it had to be a solo worthwhile effort and not just a penny ante fizzbang project.

    I knew i was doing it right when both factories tried to put the block on me everywhere i showed up-----------even in Canada i wasn,t allowed to run under international UIM rules --it had to be local rules.

    In the USA ------I could race the class they put me in------which again they altered AFTER the race-----------and my co-drivers dad was OOD----- still the factories put the boot in again It wasn't easy being green as the saying goes.

    You put on a face -------you look 'em straight in the eye and you take 'em on----you argue ----you plead-------you threaten------ but you never give up-------you put up with snide remarks and the criticisms and the threats and accusations of ruining the sport and just smile at them when all you want to do is punch 'em in the mouth.

    It was like that the whole time i raced The Cosworth-----so if my shackles were up again and it was for all the wrong reasons I"M SORRY" 'nuff said.

    SO-- the new inboard /outboard folk trying ----to do what i did think they will be welcomed with open arms---------they will be -------------------only 'till it looks like it has potential----then the sh-t will hit the fan all over again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by T2x View Post
    Jackie and Rotary John at OFF 2010, conspiring to reveal the secrets behind the legendary 2 liter Rotary, V-10, Turbine OMC that only Renato Molinari was allowed to test drive. This engine would have put OMC at the top of racing. Unfortunately, not only couldn't it finish a race....no one was ever able to get it started....!!!!
    Great picture guys!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Oil Racing Team View Post
    Jackie, I've looked through most of my pictures, and I haven't found a tunnel mixing it up with the inboards yet, but I can't find my good loupe and so I have a hard time seeing details. I'll find it and go over them again. Here is an excerpt from the July 1976 LE Soleil, and an article from Powerboat that gives you mention at the Valleyfield race. This is one of only two articles I sent in for publication, but had someone else write the story. Both were in 1976. Steve and Lee Hertz accompanied us as pit crew for myself and Tim Butts, and since Lee was the APBA Region 6 correspondent, I asked if he would write the story and I would take the pictures. He readily agreed. Lee knew most if not all the inboard racers, and probably many of the OPC guys. Consequently, I didn't get the results or even have a roster. I don't even remember much about the drivers meeting. Seems to me that I remember most of it being in French.
    Do you have any shots of Dick O'Dea's Jones tunnel running at Valleyfield with his 7 liter/Mercruiser II?....possibly 1977? I believe Johnny Yale was running it and blew over running down the front stretch. He had never driven a tunnel before and the boat had a lope like nothing else I have ever seen...yet he kept his foot in it....... The hull must have been 25 feet in the air, spinning backwards as it passed the start-finish line in lap 2.

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    Sorry, but I don't. My only trip to Valleyfield was for the John Ward race in 1976.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Oil Racing Team View Post
    Sorry, but I don't. My only trip to Valleyfield was for the John Ward race in 1976.
    Was after reading about the JOHN WARD trophy i decided to do Valleyfield, specially as no englishman had ever done it, still think it was one of the best memories of my boating career and Chas [ my mechanic ] thinks so too .

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    Hi again Jackie...look at this picture..maybe Bristol??

    How is Fiona Brothers doing today?? Did she ever win a ON race??
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    Here's an article published in an Ozzie boat mag a few years ago about Jackies boat
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