Originally Posted by
Ron Hill
Does anyone actually have a list of those who died driving V-8 OMC's?
Note to Rotary John RE OMC Boat Companies....
Hanging around OMC in the PRE BOAT COMPANY DAYS, I as a young Californian who had no experience in high finance or the real world of business,,,,asked Jim Briggs, "Why would you buy a boat business for several million when you could start it again for a few thousand?"
His answer was, "OMC is debt free and we are target for a take over by investors. Therefore, we need to be in debt so we don't get taken over,," I said, 'YULP...give me another martini...
I think OMC was run by a group of "ARROGANT" rich people that had never really made a dime in their lives. So when some "GURU" told them they should do this and that , they did it..... Maybe, they should have asked Roger Penske...
Jimmy Jost was Evinrude's PR man. He loaned out and sold "MEMO" motors to MOD VP Racers...At Havasu we had 30 Evinrudes racing MOD VP..Jost had sold or given most of them. Evinrudes were selling like crazy out west...So...at Havasu, Mercury brings out a "HOT MOTOR"...30 Evinrudes and one Mercury.... Mercury didn't win....but that was politics....
Had everyone continued to race Evinrude 235's in MOD VP we'd had NASCAR in boats.....Instead Mercury build ONE fast motor and Evinrude built one fast motor, soon we had two boats racing MOD VP!The bottom LINE is you don't need to race "TRICK" motors...you need a level playing field...
I'm hoping Jake's new Johnson Racing E-Tec motors level the field here in America...Even E-Tec motors with carbs, could be a great class...
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