This is me back in September 1973

[sd489]

Stingray240, - Roman
At last I got the spare parts manual on a CD in PDF.
Send me your adress to my mail; x7777@ono.com and I will send it to you.
I will be glad to share our technical info, and pictures with you
Regards
Johnny

[stingray240cs]

Johnny,
Ivé got the cd - thanks a lot !
I´m on a business trip now - I will send you an email when I arrive home.
Best Regards,

Roman

[wolfie]

Johhny, Parts listing turned up here in England as well, many many thanks mate

[wolfie]

hi, i know its not a tornado, but this is one of the engines the tornado was based on, ( note to self must get round to stripping and rebuilding my remaining Tornado this year)

In the mean time i managed to find this 40 year old AP450 off shore that had never seen water, the gentleman bought it and used 4 of the 5 he bought to race in his local club, but he never needed to use this "spare" one, so it has sat in his garage for 40 years, all wrapped up, till now.

well i took the plunge over the weekend and ran her up for the very first time, videos below

part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAMRdYa3PQ
part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB_KetMe2Rk
part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eh-U6_YIOE
part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYnyB-5bGrY
part 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyMNvKxOlAY

Sorry so many vid links, camera only takes 60 secs max at a time

[Per]

This seems to be the thread to be in if you are a VP outboard fan!
I don't have any tornado engine but a friend of mine is currently working on a replica, that is supposed to be rigged on a 16 foot Classic offshore racer.

The link below is leads to a gallery with my latest work on a VP700 from -78. This is one of three VP700 engines I have.

I'm waiting for warmer weather then I to might be able to show some video

I'm a member of the "Nymans vänner" (Friend of Nymans) association and I might be able to help with facts regarding the Tornado

https://picasaweb.google.com/kvicken...lvoPentaVP700#

//Per

[stingray240cs]

Wolfie,
what a nice engine ! It hurts, that you have started it.. )
I would have kept it unused...
But anyway - this is a big thing to find a new aengine 40 years after its production..

Per,
you have the "Jubileum" version of a VP700 - very nice. I have only the partslist for it...
Please if possible, send me a contact to your friend who is building the Tornado..
I would like to share some informations with him.

Beside others I have one Tornado, one AP 550X, one Archimedes 60sX.

br
Roman

[Alexander]

Johnny,

could you make a scan or copy of your 600SX partslist for me please?
As I know, there was a different crankshaft used for the Crescent Tornado and Tornado S.
Do you know the difference? Maybe the Tornado had the regular one?
Have you more engines from Uppsala, or only the one you have with the boat?
I have an other as well, here the picture...
br
Roman

Hello members;

I found an old picture of a 550cc Crescent with me as a 5 or 6 years old "pilot" behind the steeringwheel back in the late sixties. In that time there was a CU class with max.550cc outboards in the Netherlands. This boat was from my old man and he became the Dutch champion CU in 1969 or 1970

Best regards

Alex

[wolfgang]

Was this boat built by Harry Grupstra of Amsterdam or a homebuilt clone? rgds,W

[Alexander]

Was this boat built by Harry Grupstra of Amsterdam or a homebuilt clone? rgds,W

Hello Wolfgang;

At that time my old man already designed his own boats. One year before the CU class he came out in the B stock class with a Konig engine. That stock boat was an American design, I believe from what now is Boat Plans International. I still have the original drawings which show a stock boat called Jupiter. Grupstra was at that time already a few years a pilot in the EU class.

Best regards

Alex

[Per]

Picture from Skokloster race summer 2011.
Engine is not a Tornado from the beginning but a replica built to Tornado spec.

The rumour is there will be several more Crescent / Volvo Archimedes Penta rigged boat this summer

//Per