Storz wrote:Flight Service wrote:I had the privilege a few years ago of driving an XR2001 with a hot drag motor on the back. The owner spent like 2 hours with me teaching me how to fly it on the pad. One of the coolest experiences of my life, I will own an Allison someday. This is the one I droveStorz wrote: Do boats count :)That Allison on top is something else.... Something about buying a boat stone stock with a warranty that will do 90+ right out of the box, 21 ft of awesomeness right there. Need more tunnel boat...
Did they tell you why Allisons are so rare? They can't guarentee when you will get them. If it comes out of the mold and isn't straight, they shread it and start over. They also cure 2 weeks in the mold. When you get one, it is right.
No Flight found in this one.
nderwater wrote:
Old School Flight:
Flight Service wrote:Storz wrote:Did they tell you why Allisons are so rare? They can't guarentee when you will get them. If it comes out of the mold and isn't straight, they shread it and start over. They also cure 2 weeks in the mold. When you get one, it is right.Flight Service wrote:I had the privilege a few years ago of driving an XR2001 with a hot drag motor on the back. The owner spent like 2 hours with me teaching me how to fly it on the pad. One of the coolest experiences of my life, I will own an Allison someday. This is the one I droveStorz wrote: Do boats count :)That Allison on top is something else.... Something about buying a boat stone stock with a warranty that will do 90+ right out of the box, 21 ft of awesomeness right there. Need more tunnel boat...
Yup - pretty awesome stuff. Do you own one?
Storz wrote:Flight Service wrote:Yup - pretty awesome stuff. Do you own one?Storz wrote:Did they tell you why Allisons are so rare? They can't guarentee when you will get them. If it comes out of the mold and isn't straight, they shread it and start over. They also cure 2 weeks in the mold. When you get one, it is right.Flight Service wrote:I had the privilege a few years ago of driving an XR2001 with a hot drag motor on the back. The owner spent like 2 hours with me teaching me how to fly it on the pad. One of the coolest experiences of my life, I will own an Allison someday. This is the one I droveStorz wrote: Do boats count :)That Allison on top is something else.... Something about buying a boat stone stock with a warranty that will do 90+ right out of the box, 21 ft of awesomeness right there. Need more tunnel boat...
No, it is on my bucket list. Guy who raced in SuperSport ran one when I was team engineer for an F3 team (we moved up the next year to F2) Nobody could catch it.
IT COUNTS!
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Duke wrote:RossD wrote:
What was that poor 'Cuda *supposed* to land on, and was there anything but scrap left when it did?
I suspect that Barracuda may have been doing something like this then the image went 'shopping.
You boat guys keep talking about Allisons, yet have not pictured the Allison that really maters:
Vehicle I saw on my way to Charlotte this weekend.
Offshore racing. A long time ago they thought they could race just offshore of Sodus Bay on Lake Ontario.
I have sailed on 40, 44 and 50 foot sailboats right HERE and been scared to death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBNnmy_vLzM
What could possibly go wrong?
Actually paid part of my way through Engineering school working on these kinds of boats and crewing on an offshore racing team. Don Johnson of Miami Vice fame and Al Copland of Popeye's Chicken were big players at the time. As far as I am concerned, an offshore boat race is more like a two hour plane crash than any kind of fun you would volunteer for.
Remember that in those days canopies were just starting to come out and crew were standing and not belted in to the boat. "Stuffing" the boat meant going from like 90 mph to zero in one second and smashing your face against the dash. A fraction of a second later the wall of water going the other way accelerates you to 80 mph into your seat. If you are lucky your head stays attached to your body.
For reasons that I don't quite get, a significant number of our clients seem to have ended up in jail for cocaine dealing charges.
Another memory is coconuts. I hate coconuts cause the damage they cause to the hull when you hit one is not funny.
$500 a day in gas just playing around and tuning is about right. In 1983 dollars and gas prices.
In honor of the page number-
aircooled wrote:
The_Jed wrote:aircooled wrote:
Chicks dig fast boats and the men who drive them. As you can tell, those women are very aroused.
Duke wrote:Because drag racing cars just isn't expensive enough.
I used to build these boats, the secret of going fast is no boat in the water.
I switched to Midgets and Sprint cars, before I helped someone die.
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