lets play name this hull

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eric stockon

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can anyone help I.D. this hull i got this off of jims, ill post more pics when it gets here if i need to, he says its 29" and wood.





Ready, Go!.......lol

 

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RonShaw

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Dumas Hot Shot????

 

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i dont think it is ron the sponson tops look flat

 

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Looks like something that Dunlap guy used to design for wood over foam.

JD

 

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Jerry Dunlap said:

Looks like something that Dunlap guy used to design for wood over foam.

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thats funny, fred uftring said the same thing last night

 

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Well, Fred, or "FU" as I've called him in Hobart has been around model tunnel boats since we was carving them out of solid blocks of wood.

JD

 

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Ok, may not be a Hot Shot but close...LOL. There is definitely some Dunlap "Influence" on this boat...

 

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Looks DPI to me..

 

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Grimracer said:

Looks DPI to me..

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Could it be because of the dpi instruction sheet underneath it? Did dpi do wood, i thought the were all abs...

 

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Grimracer said:

Looks DPI to me..

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Little known fact - or maybe a fact no one really cares to know - JD did the prototype for the DPI 20 Tunnel.

JD

 

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moparbarn said:

Grimracer said:

Looks DPI to me..

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Could it be because of the dpi instruction sheet underneath it? Did dpi do wood, i thought the were all abs...

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DPI - Design Plastics Incorporated. All DPI hulls were ABS.

JD

 

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Yea.. Big boat is a dunny tunny.. looks like a DPI cowl

 

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Yup, leading edge of center section and radio box position........WOF! WOF!

Gene

 

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He had 2 like that. Thread is on jim's in the nitro forum. I scored a nib python canard kit for $35, all the hulls were $35!!

 

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that canard was cool, good score on that

 

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well it might not matter now they got mixed up, i got the wrong boat, he is gonna try to figure it out, wish me luck

 

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Great fact to know Dunny....geeze seems like you had a hand in everything back in the day

 

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That Looks like a Roach Boat around 2006-2007 I still have two center for that boat.

 

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dave roach said:

That Looks like a Roach Boat around 2006-2007 I still have two center for that boat.

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Yes >> I think you would know ..............

 

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dave roach said:

That Looks like a Roach Boat around 2006-2007 I still have two center for that boat.

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I know personally that Roach knows how to build a boat!!...