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    There needs to be an icon or emoticon for going over people's heads
    Since 1925, about 150 different racing outboards have been made.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark75H View Post
    There needs to be an icon or emoticon for going over people's heads
    agreed
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    I heard it ran on diesel or gas too!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Powerabout View Post
    I heard it ran on diesel or gas too!
    Actually it converted water to hydrogen.....so the faster it went, the more fuel it received directly from its cooling system....
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    Rich,

    Are you sure! I believe it ran on Methane gas obtained from Mid-West feed lots!

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    John:

    Ahhh yes the Methane gas moment, you only heard Edgar's earlier secret tapes after his bratwurst and beans dinner...... The hydrogen part came later in the design process.....
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    Believe it could be refueled with this thread

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beale Tilton View Post
    Believe it could be refueled with this thread
    Beale:

    Not possible. This was all down well before the internet started. There were no provisions to harness hot air from a world wide computer network built into the concept....but it certainly could have been updated if only Steve Jobs had lived a little longer.....

    You'll have to excuse me now as I have to resume my cataloguing of every prop nut vendor and part number in outboard racing's history......

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    Quote Originally Posted by T2x View Post
    These were real ultra hush hush motors..... not even Charlie Strang or Jack Leek knew about the project.......

    Edgar Rose hid the prototypes away so thoroughly that 2 days later even he couldn't find them...but if they ever actually got on one of those bi-plane hulls that Staudacher and Molinari were developing (also in secret..code named "Molidachers").... they definitely would have been faster than anything else to this day..... .

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    P.S..... This is for all those guys who are always searching for the "inside story" on minutiae like why the factories chose specific stripe colors on engine cowls for a certain year...
    Hiya Rich, Been away from this site too long and had forgotten about the Staudanari and the 10 liter hydrofart. That thing had a fifty foot afterburn that was positively lethal, whenever anyone ran behind it , they were badly singed and many drivers had to be given mouth to mouth and a shot of J/D to revive them.APBA had a rule about alky levels during competitions and once burned and cured by the MTM/J/D method, referee's were very strict and insisted on trying the cure for themselves before allowing racing to continue. Stickle is a prime example of the results of being a referee.
    The hydrofart was another. Of the short lived inventions.

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    Came across this pic from Bristol Docks of Jackie chatting to Gary Garbrecht.

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