multiply by infinity!!! Incredibly inspiring and amazing. (understatemment).

Yasin

Thing resto from The Samba - still ongoing.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1231079905.jpg
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Looks great, I love those Things.... My first car...

Before...

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After ...

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This is my parent's place in Idaho. The car in question actually has some Pelican content -- it's a 78 BMW 318i that he's working on. He's partway through the conversion to fuel injection using the megasquirt system. Great stuff. :)

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Oooohhhh..... Lovely low-light Ghia! What year?

angela

A Thing was my first car, too.

1956

alright alright what the hell is wrong with dis picture vinman????

first we have the "before" pic of the uber zoomy ge-racen boot.

and then we have the "after " pic of das boot ge-fuched fubar'ed beyond all words.


what the hell gives here. as a long standing member of the u.s.c.g. aux(crewmember jes shy of coxswain) i demand an intelligent in depth analysis of this incredible devastation.

my ideas that come to mind:

1) an exocet miss-kill nailed yer ass.

2) a rogue untersee-boot nailed you with a torpedo ("torpedos los")

3) sky lab fell on you

4) the freeking andrea doria was lurking off the east coast after being resurfaced

5) the real name of the boat is "PT-109" and the jap navy drilled ya

6)recent fiberglass repairs failed

7) the u.s.s. missouri fired a salvo at you from her main guns

8) latest greatest stealth tech u.s. navy ship based in san diego came for a visit

9) a reef was struck

10) a buoy was struck

11) a sandbar was struck

12) a whale was struck

13) another race boat hit a wave or wake and careened into you

14) poor design too big of a wave hit full speed

15) pilot error

pick one and elaborate please for us inquiring minds

I'd say it hit the very element it was meant to operate in. WATER!
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How long do you think those pumps will keep it afloat?

This students, is the result of stuffing the bow of a boat into the backside of a ocean swell at 85 mph. Boat launched off of one wave , back of the hull came down on top of another wave , tripped it up, slammed the bow down and stuffed it.
Believe it or not, the boat was towed back in still floating.

The crash was similar to what happened in the video below at 1:18. except the water was alot rougher.

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Stuffing the bow is probably the leading C.O.D. in that sport.

Actually more racers get killed getting tossed out, when the boat spins or hooks. Most of the time its from a serious neck injury. We had 2 fellow racers killed this past summer out in a race on Long Island. The boat (a canopied cat) caught air and flipped. The canopy collapsed in and the force of the water rushing in killed them. The boat was doing about 120, when it went over.

well vinman , ive done some crazy poo in my life BUT THAT TAKES THE CAKE, knowing someone(you) that survived that brutality. wow thank god yer alive.

thats one for the grandkids.

glad yer alright. im staring at a picture of stephen stills album "RIGHT BY YOU" that i have on my wall. has "SS" on the forward bow deck. really cool paint job, about 40 gazzillion HP mercs no doubt. stills used to offshore boat race quite abit years ago.

your a brave man.


i flipped an AVON after rescuing a kid in a summer monsoon storm here at bartlett lake. air got under bow and over she went! man i was glad i had my kill switch attached to my PFD. otherwise i would have been sliced diced minced and purreed!

Whatever floats yer boat...

No, no, that wasn't my boat! That was another boat that runs in my class. Trust me, I would have hung up my lifejacket and helmet if that was me. The crash happened right in front of me. Shook me up a bit witnessing that.

Ive stuffed, but never like that. Ive never been hurt racing,(knock wood) other than a lot of soreness the next day.

Before and After Part II or: 30 days with an Oldsmobile

Before:
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After:
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