Mark Poole ModVP
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Mark,Thought you would like to see one of my other toys. These were some of the loudest racing outboards ever built. Can you see why?
1970 15' Allison
1971 135 Chrysler stacker
Allison at it's best ..1987 NOA Speed trials , Glenn Reynolds from Reynolds Racing Marine in TN ......2.4 Merc , Allison XR hull . 129 mph .UNREAL PASSES !!!!http://vimeo.com/3569752
One more memory from my youth.Every summer we would go to are shore house in Stone Harbor NJ. The next door neighbor had a merk dealership and sold Baja boats. He would bring home the demo boat a 16' Baja with a 150 merk. The 18' chopper prop looked like the terminators n#!. He would take me and his daughter out in the sound on good nights when water was like glass. We weighted about the same has he did. Made perfect balance for the boat.
He had the boat on radar gun by him self at 96mph. This was about 1975ish. I Will never forget watching the rooster tail grow as he trimmed the boat. One of those memories you will never forget.
This is what he told me the radar gun was the police chief of Cape May's gun and supposedly his boat did 98mph. The prop coast $750 (allot of money in 75) and it was a piece of art no cleaver. Then again I was just a kid at the time.One more memory from my youth.Every summer we would go to are shore house in Stone Harbor NJ. The next door neighbor had a merk dealership and sold Baja boats. He would bring home the demo boat a 16' Baja with a 150 merk. The 18' chopper prop looked like the terminators n#!. He would take me and his daughter out in the sound on good nights when water was like glass. We weighted about the same has he did. Made perfect balance for the boat.
He had the boat on radar gun by him self at 96mph. This was about 1975ish. I Will never forget watching the rooster tail grow as he trimmed the boat. One of those memories you will never forget.
Whoooaa!!
Back in the late 70's I had a Merc 1500XS (150hp shortshaft) on a 15 footer that ran an honest 73-74 mph pulling a 28 pitch cleaver. That was a legal weight J/Production boat. I believe the APBA Kilo record at that time for J/P was about 78mph. Your neighbor should have raced that 96mph Baja. Or maybe calibrated his "radar gun". Even uside down 69mph would have been a stretch. Tim Tinus running an 18'factory Baja at the Powerboat Shootout in St Louis managed 82mph with a V-6 Mercury 225. Single seater raceboat no interior. Probably as fast as a Baja in that era was capable of.
David,This is what he told me the radar gun was the police chief of Cape May's gun and supposedly his boat did 98mph. The prop coast $750 (allot of money in 75) and it was a piece of art no cleaver. Then again I was just a kid at the time.One more memory from my youth.Every summer we would go to are shore house in Stone Harbor NJ. The next door neighbor had a merk dealership and sold Baja boats. He would bring home the demo boat a 16' Baja with a 150 merk. The 18' chopper prop looked like the terminators n#!. He would take me and his daughter out in the sound on good nights when water was like glass. We weighted about the same has he did. Made perfect balance for the boat.
He had the boat on radar gun by him self at 96mph. This was about 1975ish. I Will never forget watching the rooster tail grow as he trimmed the boat. One of those memories you will never forget.
Whoooaa!!
Back in the late 70's I had a Merc 1500XS (150hp shortshaft) on a 15 footer that ran an honest 73-74 mph pulling a 28 pitch cleaver. That was a legal weight J/Production boat. I believe the APBA Kilo record at that time for J/P was about 78mph. Your neighbor should have raced that 96mph Baja. Or maybe calibrated his "radar gun". Even uside down 69mph would have been a stretch. Tim Tinus running an 18'factory Baja at the Powerboat Shootout in St Louis managed 82mph with a V-6 Mercury 225. Single seater raceboat no interior. Probably as fast as a Baja in that era was capable of.
The chief's boat looked like it had wings on the front of it can't remember what make it was but it was striped down to nothing. The Baja was all stock and brand new black with 3/8" silver flake in the paint and bright red interior with every opt. bin In a few 70 plus bass boats no comparison. His mechanic did some work to the eng. not sure what but he did just get back from Merck school.
This is just from what I remember it was along time ago an I was very young but the cars on the road going 55+ next to the canal were getting passed like thy were standing still and we weren't even full throttle or trimmed.
He would always laugh at me because I would have to pull start my suicide 6 because the battery was always dead.
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