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Jimmy Hauenstein's Garage....Continued...
Some interesting stuff in Jimmy's garage...The Arcadian, an 8 engine (8 V-6 Mercury Outboards) is parked their...
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Jimmy Hauenstein, "The Arcadian Star"
After visiting Freddy last Friday, I visited Jimmy.....
Jimmy has a nice view of the mountains, where he and his grandpa use to walk and fly kites...
It has been a short nine years......
I know it was difficult for Freddy to show me Jimmy's garage, but I loved the chance to see the Arcadian Unlimited Hydro and other stuff...Like Freddy's 1968 GTO.....Fred let this car behind when he went to work for OMC (Before he worked at Mercury)....Just never got around to picking up the car....She's sat for almost 35 years...
That Mark 58 is brand new, Freddy stole the mag arm off it, otherwise it is new, 1958, and original...
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Fred...You got me to thinking
We made a 108 average in 1977 with our dual rotary valve Konig we got from Marshall Grant, but it was entered as 1100cc hydro. It was really an OE. I got to thinking why didn't we also run it as an OE? So I looked it up and found out we rolled the dice wrong.
We had won the Nationals with that motor the previous month in Hinton, and even though it ran bad the last lap and a half, we thought it was because I had such a lead and had backed off too much, loading up the engine. We didn't bother to go through it. All we did was change plugs.
Well, when we started to make our first run at Devils Lake, it wouldn't even get on a plane. I came back to the pits 3 times to change props. We had a 1:1 unit on it and we finally had to put the C prop on it to get on a plane. The first two attempts were for the 1100 hydro record belonging to Hu Entrop. Our best was 2 mph short of Entrop's record and 3 short of claiming a new one.
I found out that we DID go for the OE. That was the last year methanol was legal in OE. We knew something was wrong with the motor, but it was still running. We didn't know what the OE record was and it was obvious that we weren't going to break the 1100 hydro record, so we decided to go for the OE. We didn't know what the record was or who held it. Neither did the officials. It isn't listed in the APBA book except under Mod 50. I guess no one had a UIM record book there.
Our last pair of runs was for OE, but the top front piston that had a broken ring (unbeknownst to us at that time) further disintegrated, resulting in an 88mph average. Your record was 107.629 and to establish a new record, we had to equal or exceed 108.436. Oh Well!;) :D
I imagine all previous records were with gasoline, so if my engine would have been running right, it would have been like a motor with steroids:rolleyes: . So I am glad you held the OE record for a long time:cool:
Hey Mikey....Finally got my E mail working again. Took almost two hours and a couple of tekkies, but the new one is MORT73@hughes.net
The flowers on Jim's stone
were placed there by his widow a few days before Ron took that picture. They came from plants at the property/ranch/home they owned in the Woodlake (California) area, where she had stopped by just to look.
Yes, it has been a short 9 years, Ron. We all miss Jim quite a bit.
Kathy is doing well and is moving back to California. She sold the beautiful home she built in Weatherford, Texas, and currently has her horses with friends in California while she relocates and moves.
From SAF Top Tunnel Drivers...
How could anyone really leave Fred Hauenstein, Jr. off that list?
Freddy is/was an engineering nerd... always messing with motors. He got his degrees in aeronautical and mechanical engineering.
He started Co driving with me. He never was given much seat time because I did all the testing. But, by 1978 Parker, he had been doing test drving for OMC, who he worked for at the time. At 34, I felt I was heading downhill. (I had two kids, MOD VP was catching my eye...) Fred was quicker in '78 than I.
After our Parker win, Fred went to work for Mercury. He was also driving for Mercury. At some Alabama race, he and Mr. Bill pulled a double blow over where Fred ended up with a broken hand. No blame was ever placed, but Seebold was Number One, at the time, and employees were not suppose to be "Blowing the doors off" the company's Number One Man...
So, Fred took a back seat...basically retired from driving... so he could follow his first love and that WAS ENGINEERING... Fred has been past APBA President and is very respected and important in UIM.
He did drive a few times after the Seeebold/Hauenstein Alabama Crash....His last effort was testing an S-3000 (When no one knew about S-3000's) during a Parker race when the transom pulled out and he did a two and half in the air and ended up stuck in the mud...with a throttle wire through his leg. Had he not been in the mud along the shore (That is where the boat flew) he would have been a boat racing statistic.
The truth is Fred won many APBA National Championship where Bill Seebold finished behind him. Fred won the John Ward Thophy Race for 500 CC Outboards..something Seebold never did.
Fred drove for Barry Woods, and turned the fasted laps any Scotti turned at Parker, until a sponson runner came off and almost decapitated Fred....Fred had the savy of a Tony Stewart. He came from Sprint Racing but he could drive all day. Fred single handedly lead the Parker Enduro for 6 HOURS one year, only to have he bottom blow out with 30 minutes to go...
Fred was never a "TAKER" from the Sport. He always gave more than he took. Brother Jim was NEVER considered a good driver....but everyone loved him...Brother Donny, was the best driver in the family. He just couldn't seem to wake up in time to go to the driver's meeting or remember which day the race was....
If you ever saw Rich Fuchlin, Bill Rucker, John Soto, Harry Bartolomei, Walter Huhn, Ron Hill, Dave Nichols and Fred Hauenstein on the same race course with 13 foot DeSilva's with 40 cubic inch Quincy's racing side by side for five laps on a half mile track....You'd know Hauenstein can DRIVE ANYTHING...Don't ever forget this is were Billy Seebold came from also.
Look at DePue stats, Hauenstein has more wins than Seebold.
NOTE: The Arcadian Star http://www.boatracingfacts.com/forum...read.php?t=128
Don't Let The Facts Ruin A Good Story!
Ron - some of that is a little over the top! But thanks anyway.
Correction: I was working for OMC at the time of the Alabama incident (August 1978) and "quit" tunnel boats and changed companies in September of 1978. I drove tunnels again only after safety cockpits were in use.
I'll leave the rest for another time.
Jimbo set the Mod 50 record with his little blue Molinari tunnel boat and an OMC engine that was a few evolutionary steps further down the road. Quite an accomplishment. (Nerstrom - comments? I was a Mercury guy by then.)
Wayne: I made a few changes to the 705 Koenig (put on my 48mm carbs, Ron Anderson pipes, my tower, clamps and Eldredge gear case, etc.) so when I show you a picture it won't look too exotic.
Fred
Donny Hauenstein 2-21-1949/7-4-2007
Got this E-Mail from Fred Hauenstein, Jr. Lung Cancer.....
Hi Ron:
There will be a memorial service for Don on the Saturday, July 21, in
Seward, AK.
Fred
The circle of Life goes 'round
Mike Hauenstein can receive E mails, but right now he can't send them, but this needs to be told.
Yesterday Mike and Kate Hauenstein brought forth another Hauenstein into the world. Carmen Rebecca Hauenstein was born 9 pm and weighed in at 8 lb. 1 oz & was 20 1/4 inches. Mikes says lots of hair. He will post pictures later. Maybe Fred might have some to bring to the reunion. I don't think he still learned to post yet.;) :D
Congrats Kate and Mike.
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Moses Lake Nationals 2007
I think Danny Hauenstein made history at Moses Lake. In the almost sixty years of Stock Outboard Racing, I don't think anyone has ever won A Hydro and D Hydro at the same Nationals. If this isn't a first, it is still way cool. Congratulations, Danny and Family!!!
Posted this picture somewhere else, but Kingsburg is the Hauenstein HOME ....Old Fred was quite a guy!!!
Boatmark59, YES, More Stories...
Jimmy Hauenstein was one of a kind. Words like "Never limit yourself" flowed from his mount daily and often. Looking back, I guess I missed many of these "Saying" as that Hauenstein infectious laugh would cause you to forget what was said.
When Jim was going to Law School at UCLA, he and I frequently attended bars around USC and UCLA. We went to SC games when OJ Simpson played. Jim just seemed to know what was going to happen next in the world. He had majored in International Relations and just had a "NOSE" for the real world.
More stories for sure...
I could see Jimmy, James Findley, sitting in YOUR NEW truck, PROBABLY drinking YOUR BEER, saying you want to go to a party with us???
If I get time, I'll tell about the Halloween party at my girl friend's house in Newport Beach, that Jim and I attended together, about 1967. Then, again, maybe I won't.
I'd like to see Linda Hauenstein get on her and tell her story about her Honeymoon at The Lake Havasu Outboard World Championship when she spent Thanksgiving weekend with RON HILL and 7 of his fraternity brothers.....
Jim's been got since May 1997!
Thanks For The Pictures....
Maybe, I should post my thought somewhere else.......But as I drove through Kingsburg, today, March 4, 2011 I thought of the irony of seeing the Arcadian Unlimited of Jimmy Hauenstein being posted on BRF...yesterday.
September 1987, San Diego
The Arcadian Unlimited had 8 2.4 Mercury Outboard Powerheads. Marcel Belleville had build this boat in has garage in Santa Ana, California. I had designed the garage for Marcel when I was going to Orange Coast College, 1962.
When Marcel finished the boat, he called me and asked what I thought would happen if he took one wall out of the building to take the Unlimited out.....I said, "How am I to know?" He said, "You designed it?" I said, "I did?" I had forgotten...
I went to Marcel's and looked the thing over and said, "Hell, I'll bet the building falls down..."
Marcel, got the boat out just fine.
Fidencio Lara, who is building my Sport C cowling had build Al Stoker's MOD VP capsule old and capsules. Marcel had Fidencio build the capsule for this Unlimited.
In my opinion, Marcel was miles ahead of 1987 designs. Today, all Unlimiteds run four points (Small tunnel at the back). Short sponsons and low props shaft angles....
This boat had a few problems at San Diego. Each engine was hooked to the prop shaft with a blower belt and the belief was that when one motor blew the belt would break and that would be that for that motor....What actually happened, is one motor blew and the blower belt didn't break and it kept the blown engine turning til parts and pieces flew all over and around the other seven motors causing them to suck in broken parts and blow themselves up. So, first run 8 BLOWN POWERHEADS.
So, 8 new powerheads were installed, with fine screens over the injection horn and off for a second run. This time, when one motor blew, it cracked the block and drained the water from the other seven powerheads. Second run, 8 more powerheads blown.
Jimmy and crew finally got the boat going fast enough at Lake X to beat Miss Budweiser. So, when Bernie Little got wind of the Arcadians speed, he changed the rules for the turbines. So, Jimmy parked the boat.........at least that is the way I heard the story!