Old pictures...fast jets

« **Reply #50 on:** February 07, 2008, 08:27:26 PM »

Craig Millet's Eliminator

« **Reply #51 on:** February 07, 2008, 09:17:34 PM »

cool picture...where did ya find that one? but actually, thats a rodgers...it was named the excaliber. it was the boat he raced after the raspberry.

« **Reply #52 on:** February 07, 2008, 09:46:31 PM »

Quote from: Brad @ SoCalJetBoats.com on February 07, 2008, 09:17:34 PM

... thats a rodgers...

I should have known that. $:-\$ I was in the chat room and wizard612 said he used to be a crew member of Craig Millet's boat and that he had a picture that he wanted to post but wasn't able to figure out how to post it so I offered to post it for him. It's also in the '76 Bonneville thread... he came into the chat room right after you left.

« **Reply #53 on:** February 07, 2008, 09:47:12 PM »

Sorry, it's in the 19' Rogers project thread.

« **Reply #54 on:** February 07, 2008, 09:51:40 PM »

Quote from: Brad @ SoCalJetBoats.com on February 07, 2008, 09:17:34 PM

cool picture...where did ya find that one? but actually, thats a rodgers...it was named the excaliber. it was the boat he raced after the raspberry.

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Looks like somebody was still racing the Raspberry, its in the background.

« **Reply #55 on:** February 07, 2008, 09:58:52 PM »

Quote from: 76 Bonneville on February 07, 2008, 09:51:40 PM

Looks like somebody was still racing the Raspberry, its in the background.

yes, craig and tom (wizard) told me they brought the raspberry out for a skijet class for fun....though it had the same numbers as the newly aquired excaliber....they changed it to 712R (R for Retired)

Here is a pic of them blowing through the feild durring that skijet race....

« **Reply #56 on:** February 08, 2008, 06:10:43 AM »

good stuff

« **Reply #57 on:** February 08, 2008, 01:29:24 PM »

Well I guess this is the thread I should spend more time on. I looked through a couple of stacks of old slides and if I can figure out how to scan them in using my home scanner I'll work on posting them. They include some of the best So Cal Jet boat racers of the 70's. Dan Duham, the Barrons, Steve King, Mel Bacon, etc. I have over 1,000 slides from Long Beach to the Austin Aqua Festival. Some I have have no clue of. I discovered something interesting though... once I started to drive a boat the pix all dried up. No time to be historian when your trying to keep the boat afloat. Word to the wise, have someone take pix, It's what you will share thirty years from now.

« **Reply #58 on:** February 08, 2008, 01:32:28 PM »

Quote from: wizard612 on February 08, 2008, 01:29:24 PM

Well I guess this is the thread I should spend more time on. I looked through a couple of stacks of old slides and if I can figure out how to scan them in using my home scanner I'll work on posting them. They include some of the best So Cal Jet boat racers of the 70's. Dan Duham, the Barrons, Steve King, Mel Bacon, etc. I have over 1,000 slides from Long Beach to the Austin Aqua Festival. Some I have have no clue of. I discovered something interesting though... once I started to drive a boat the pix all dried up. No time to be historian when your trying to keep the boat afloat. Word to the wise, have someone take pix, It's what you will share thirty years from now.

Sweet. Cant wait to see all these pictures.

Rod told me you had some difficulty posting pics last night. If you need help posting pictures, let me know. I will do my best to walk you through it.

« **Reply #59 on:** February 08, 2008, 01:59:08 PM »

The one old shot I have in the office is one of my old Ski Jet (II) sprint boat wizard I'll work on more later

« **Reply #60 on:** February 08, 2008, 08:30:13 PM »

I figured out why I can't get my photos on this thread when I try at home. It's this suckie P-4 computer!!!! It takese too long to load the photo and times out even small files take too long. Good news is I have a buch burned on a disc and will try to get them into the thread from the office next week.

« **Reply #61 on:** February 12, 2008, 08:51:19 AM »

Here's an oldie of (right to left) Jack McClure's Liberty, My Eliminator Wizard, Craig Millet's Eliminator Spirit II, and two of Liberty's factory boats

« **Reply #62 on:** February 12, 2008, 08:55:22 AM »

And how about Bill Muncey driving Atlas Van Lines just off the beach at Firebird (yes Firebird) course was too small to run the unlimited hydros together but Muncey ran solo close enough for us to get wet from the roostertail

« **Reply #63 on:** February 12, 2008, 08:58:45 AM »

Here's George Stregal blowing past a horizon at Bluewater

« **Reply #64 on:** February 12, 2008, 09:08:06 AM »

Now we have the Rodgers, Strictly Business, of "Captain" Bill Scotten in Ski Jet II and American Express driven by Steve King in Modified Jet, also a Rodgers.

« **Reply #65 on:** February 12, 2008, 09:14:36 AM »

The Avenger "the Devil" at Long Beach and the Start of a K-Jet heat at Bluewater with Dan Durham on the Left and I think the Barrons far right. the Sanger in the middleI can't remember who's boat that was.

« **Reply #66 on:** February 12, 2008, 09:28:42 AM »

Last three for a while... Craig at speed in the Rodger Excalibur with a Tiger like victory fist pump and two shots of the Hondo Spirit, on the trailer heading for the Austin Aqua Festival, and on at full song in perfect water at Bluewater I think.

« **Reply #67 on:** February 12, 2008, 12:31:52 PM »

Those are awesome pictures Wizard, thanks for sharing. I see one of those Roger's designed carb scoops and a few mechanical fuel injection systems in those boats. Sweet.

« **Reply #68 on:** February 12, 2008, 01:33:10 PM »

Quote from: hotrod56cars on February 12, 2008, 12:31:52 PM

Those are awesome pictures Wizard, thanks for sharing.

what he said x2

Always enjoy seeing and hearing about boats and their drivers from that time era

Thanks again for sharing!

« **Reply #69 on:** February 12, 2008, 01:59:33 PM »

Tom,

I fixed the pictures for ya.

Thanks for sharing...those are some bad ass pictures.

-Brad

« **Reply #70 on:** February 12, 2008, 02:45:59 PM »

Got a shot of Lowrance Maynard (sp?) at Bluewater. A great running Rodgers trailered in from Texas and wuped mose everyone. The stern of Tom Stolart's (sp?) Warlock is to the right. That's the boat that Team Warlock Boats was named after.

I think this is the first single cockpit Sleekcraft Aritocrat with Rodger Finney driving in Comp Jet.

« **Reply #71 on:** March 09, 2009, 06:08:00 PM »

anyone happen to save that picture of the old picture of the wild injun k-jet with the jaccuzi in it?

looks like it was hosted on hotboat and is gone.

« **Reply #72 on:** March 10, 2009, 02:36:15 PM »

the pict of the cj454 boat was indeed a single cockpit boat and it was owned by my uncle bill pratt

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« **Reply #73 on:** March 10, 2009, 03:08:58 PM »

Nice picture collection Wizard, post more whenever you have time.

« **Reply #74 on:** March 10, 2009, 06:23:50 PM »

Quote from: Brad @ SoCalJetBoats.com on March 09, 2009, 06:08:00 PM

anyone happen to save that picture of the old picture of the wild injun k-jet with the jaccuzi in it?

looks like it was hosted on hotboat and is gone.

Brad, What kind of hull was it?

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