Found some ModVP photos

[fyremanbill]

That Molinari was a cool looking little boat. I think it had a v-4 on it.

[Ron Hill]

MOD VP was a class that I LOVED.....I spent a lot of money racing the class...........We had something that can never really be replaced...MAYBE...At the time, we thought Stoker was "CUTTING EDGE" Safety, which he really was...but when you look at his capsule, today it doesn't look that safe.

Everyone that ran MOD VP never took SAFETY to heart....We should have...:

1. Held the speeds down
2. Had boat weights
3. Required more/better safety cells...


Teddy Whalen's sister was also my student...She and her family came to Long Beach and San Diego this year to CHEER for my boys (Broc and Chad)....Teddy was a great kid....

We've been running MOD VP at Parker with "SLOW DOWN" rules....Chad Hill was 8 when I quit running MOD VP, but his three MOD VP races have been the height of his racing life....

You can't go back...but sometimes you can move ahead, not making the mistakes of the past....


Great pictures...Wayne...

Jim Hauenstein's Arcadian ...Tide Sponosred boat!!!! At one time, Arcadian Trucking was the WORLD's largest hauler of Proctor and Gamble products....(Tide is P and G)....

Some people think the South will rise again...I believe that MOD VP will rise again!!!

As my brother says, "You were what you were when..." When I put my MOD VP in the water, I thought I was Richard Petty!!!!

[Miss BK]

Everyone that ran MOD VP never took SAFETY to heart....We should have...:

1. Held the speeds down
2. Had boat weights
3. Required more/better safety cells...

And don't forget the helmet restraints....
After cells came out, "stuffs" were just as (if not more) dangerous than the blowovers. Dale E wasnt even going that fast...

[Dabull1919]

Ron, What ever happened to your blue/white Eliminator Mod-VP?

DB

[Ron Hill]

I sold my 19 Daytona to Freddy Hartman, after I'd run so well at Havasu.....1982...maybe... Rod Zapf and I drove fro Freddy at Parker the next spring and finished 4th in Mod VP.

Then, Freddy took the boat home and I never saw it until Thanksgiving 1983. At Thanksgiving dinner, that night, Freddy came walking in the restaurant that was then the Holiday Inn in Havasu, with a 12 inch by 4 inch piece of the boat...Freddy said he'd had an accident and that was all that was left of the boat....(It was a piece of the rear sponson, so I believed him that the boat was totaled). Brent Leach had layed that boat up for me and she was very light for the time...

Someone posted a picture of me running that boat somewhere here!

http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forum...t=1463&page=11

Here is the picture I was talking about!

[fyremanbill]

True about us not taking safety seriously. Only right at the end, after I'd seen a few accidents, did I start looking at it. I wondered, Why do motocross riders wear more safety gear than we do? So at my last Parker 7hr Enduro, I padded the inside of the boat and adapted some MX type gear to wear.