Pictures From Reno/Sparks 1984

[Roy Hodges]

[QUOTE=Lil Stinker;68076]"Rubber ducky"
Sam ck. email
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Was this the Merc 800 previously used on "the midnight oil hydro ? "

[Lil Stinker]

Thanks Roy , I don't no the history on this Motor maybe someone else will comment. Here is another F /1100 pick

[Lil Stinker]

"30-0"

[Mark75H]

Couple more resized

[Lil Stinker]

Thanks Sam

[Ron Hill]

Lil' Stinker, thanks for the great posts. I only raced at Sparks once, that was September 1966. I'd graduated from NAU and was to start teaching the Tuesday after (Labor Day weekend). I'd had a good year, winning CU and DU Marathon Nationals and DU closed course...I had a Hubbell D Merc with Quincy pipes and my dad's/brother's Evinrude Six stud....

Carl Meyers and my fraternity brother Mike Gianelli and I drove all day to get to Sparks. They had passed a new law that you needed a right side rear view mirror when pulling a trailer, it went into effect 9/1, so every cop we passed turned around and stopped us...first one gave us a ticket, after that I just showed them the ticket...

Didn't get to Sparks until after dark, went right a motel and crashed. Seems the motel might have been next to the "LAKE" as the next morning I walked to the "LAKE" and my car and boats were there, but I didn't see a "LAKE"...We had fishing ponds in Orange County larger than Sparks...Sparks had two ponds, one where we pitted and one where we raced... The pond was like a figure 8 and had had to points of land sticking out into the course the year before, but Harry Bartolomei had run over them for like six laps in a row and now the water was about 6" deep where these to points went out...

NO BS, this pond could be walked around in five minutes...

We raced our asses off for two days had a great time, but I never went back.....I think we ran 6 laps, but you could lap a guy in two...NO ONE that reads this can believe how really smalls Sparks is...

47-C is a Dawe hydro, I sold it to Betty, I think at a boat show with Tom Ige...Her first race we called her "BONZAI" Betty....as she didn't understand how the squeeze throttle worked...(She thought it was a handle to hang on to)...She bought a camper and came with her mom...She actually got to be a pretty good driver...I can't remember her name...I heard she sold her house and bought a sail boat to sail around the world with her boy friend, but he left a day early and ripped her off...

She was the first to every use a cleaver on a 20 SS....ran good until she tossed a blade...(This is NOT "BONZAI" Betty in the boat...This is after she sold it).

LAST ADD: I know there were some great races at Sparks......and your pictures bring that out clearly! Thanks!

[Lil Stinker]

Warlord

[Lil Stinker]

47-c

[racnbns]

Ted May told me the race course at Sparks is so small you get the overlap on your own roostertail!

Bruce

[Lil Stinker]

Reno 70s