Recent content by Moneypit

The SC just agreed (today) to decide the Colorado case. It appears that case will be the controlling factor for the rest. BTW, I'm back boys and girls. I will try very hard to "fit in" in this forum as we pick up speed headed for 2024. Happy New Year to all, and please be safe on the water...

I've got a Sleekcraft jet that looks like it has been raced. "The Wetter the better" name on deck, a midships turn fin, cave plates, and what looks like snaps for a tow cockpit cover. It has a 455 Olds in it, but has been exposed to the weather. Complete minus carb and distributor, (easy to...

BEWARE. DO NOT USE a filter without a bypass, like Wix racing. The block mounted Olson cooler eliminates the the block mounted factory stock bypass. Cost me an engine at Long Beach in 2009. Ray

It depends on what you are doing with the tools... Casual garage use, it isn't important. BUT, using them in the pits during a race environment it is critical to have tools well organized and knowledge of where each tool is... Looking around through a rollaway takes time. Time you sometimes...

ANY, hillbilly simpleton that has grown up around guns can tell the difference between a loaded gun and an empty gun... Well, at least I could and I don't have an alphabet of letters behind my name... Apparently, either this "accident" was intentionally created, or someone was just too fricken...

Unless he paid cash for the boat it was likely insured... HOTBOAT mag had an article about a flattie that was on the bottom of Havasu for a couple of decades.... "Sunken Treasure" was the article and I use to have the issue. Blown Hemi...The boat was cleaned up and ran.... Ray

Unbelievable, as usual... So many stunning women, so little time... Thanks again, Ray

No, it was a different era with pictures and cameras... 57 Ford, 2 door wagon, 427 8V, C&O 4 speed HYDRO. 389 gears 10" x 28 "Wes Vally Cheatas"..... A real screamer across an intersection with the 1 - 2 shift in the racing built Hydro.... I ran Lions, or Irwindale, and San Fernando on...

Boy, this thread went kinda sideways from the "Flying Boat" to the Culver City facility.. I have been reminded of a time in my life that could easily be the best .. I had an extremely fast street racer, (Never beaten on the street, NEVER, beaten on an actual drag strip just about every week. ) I...

Boy, it sure means more than a pool game when you say "RACK EM".... Wonderful, just wonderful... Ray

I was there, working @ the range before the tunnels were built, AND, we had the nose cone rivets of a gun pod fail and float the nose cone into the line of fire. Several rounds, (20mm inert) ricocheted off and put part of that burst up on that hill. No one was home, but as I recall there were 2...

Remember, every sinner has a future, and every saint has a past.... Mustering all my positive thoughts for you Mark... Ray

Dave, the crew that maintained that stuff were all friends/workers from the actual Hughes era... The firing range, bld 27, (where I worked), was staffed by some more "old timers" of that era and the last stop was the range just to keep them employed. Boy, did those old farts have some "Hughes"...

Back in the 60s I worked at Hughes Tool Co., and Bld 24, a separate section from the working area, had 8 Pratt Whitney "Wasp" engines stored in "cans" that were LEASED from PW @ something like 100Gs a year EACH. They were spare engines for the Flying Boat and were opened up and serviced...

The recent ads about being affected by commercial "Paraquat" in weed killers is way old news. Any one else remember "Paraquat Kelly" from KMET?? He was heavy into exposing the American Gov'ts involvement in the spraying of Mexican pot fields with Paraquat. Another feature, Friday afternoons @ 5...