Talked to Al, today. They are "IN"...The boat will be Fred Bowden's Stoker, powered by a Mercury. Al really wanted to run the new E-Tec Evinrude, but they are just starting to come down the assemblyline...
Next year.
John Stoker drove the first Evinrude V-6 I ever saw in the parker 9 Hour...The same year, Al race a Chrysler on a HILL TUNNEL boat...
Al seems VERY EXCITED about racing...He ordred a new Life Line jacket...His old jacket had been in the bag for 27 years.....which doesn't seem right...He and Fred Bowden may have "MENDED A FEW FENCES" whci always please me...
John Stoker is going to The Blue Water Resort and Casino 300 Enduro to keep and eye on Al.......Few people have ever loved boat raing more than John Stoker....He goes back to Lee Taylor's jet boat....days...
The Stoker Family has always been our friends...Chad Hill's high vchair was Al Stoker's...It was nefver ours, it was laoned ot us, becasaue John Stoker and I let Jessica's high chair blow off my truck when we moved to Irvine....
Sid, Ida, Sandy and Tina Stoker have always been friends of the HILL's....
We are going to Parker to race....with our friends.....win or lose, we'll still be friends!!!! (Even thoguh, we'd probaly never tell anyone else....)....
As I tell anyone who will listen....I say, "when I really get in trouble with an engine....I go to Stokers, and take all the BS.............but they help me, and they KNOW!!!"....
Wish that Al would built me a 140 for my Tri Hull....
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