stimleck

the boating knowledge on this board never ceases to amaze me! you guys are awesome

BROWNIE

I built that boat for Al. Bill Sirois and I built the first #4 style drives for it by setting the drives back (my part) and shortening them (his part). I drove it at 132 (hauling azz back then). Funny story: Bill thought the engine hatch was too heavy, and asked me to build a lightweight one. We did, and Bill asked us to install it at night because of his racing schedule. Nick Miller, Art Brown Bud Kirby and I went to Bill's shop, which made an operating room look messy, and changed the hatch. At 2AM we finished and were cleaning up the shop, when Bud Kirby dropped a cigarette (no smoking shop) on the floor, and hoovered it up with 55 gallon drum vacuum cleaner. KABOOM! It exploded, and the 4 of us looked like cartoon characters, with hair blown back and black faces. It took 6 more hours to reclean the shop. Bill showed up and asked "How did it go"? No problem....................................

FoxLakeHO

Brownie, would you write a book? These storys are why I read this site....Simply Awesome......what confuses me is NO ONE smoked back then, ha ha ha ha.....

chewiekw

Brownie do you happen to have any pictures of the cat from back in the day? Thanks for the post those were the good ol days.

butch ryan

I have a cd of the time trials but no still shots

Too Stroked

Brownie could probably write a book, but everybody would think it was fiction because they wouldn't believe it. I'm thinking there might just be a little humor in it too.

Hustler40

Anyone know what happened to the big 4 engine Geotz cat. I looked at years ago when a broker had it for sale. Cool boat. Had 4 Ford engines in it at the time. Just wondering if anyone ever did anything with it or if its been mothballed somewhere.

Biggus

Here's a pic of the Popeyes cat that had been rigged with the outboard powerheads linked to #4 Speedy's. I took this pic in January '06 when it was parked behind the old Formula factory off Biscayne Blvd. -When Larry G had Extreme Marine there. I believe it was cut up shortly after this pic was taken.

bulletbob

I would love to see pics of how they linked the outboard powerheads to the drives! Now thats some thinking outside of the box!

ironhead

I think it was injected 2.4 power heads on there sides linked with blower belts to a common drive shaft , there were in/out boxes on the power heads, from what I remember the flex in the hull and the drive shaft and a flex-e-flyer hull was its down fall it was later converted to inboards but it coudnt take any rough water