Quote Originally Posted by toby View Post
Aaaaah yes I had forgotten all about Autolec, Lars !!!! Thank you. There was however a link between Pier 39 and Autolec. Pier 39 was on the bend just after Loch Vaal club if you were traveling up toward the Barrage wall. I loved going past there by boat as there were always exciting things going on. I once rode past and there was a Schultz or Schwitzer wing boat with a pair of Evenrude V4s strapped on the back. I never saw it run or race. Maybe the altitude was a problem? You will know first hand how difficult it was to get the boats to run well and how hard it was to dial out porpoising. On the rotary subject, I thought only one was brout out to ZA. A rotary run by Johnny Sanders and a V4 or 6 run by Jimbo Mc ( or the other way round). The big question was, did the rotary motor stay in ZA or was it shipped back to the USA?
Sanders ran the rotary and it was shipped back to Waukegan after the race.