Sweet 60J for sale!

[Jeff Brewster 59s]

Excellent chance to add a little piece of our racing history to your collection!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...8654&viewitem=

[reed28n]

Memories

Greg Meyers, Mike Noonan, Sue Marcell, Kim Forcer, Todd Nelson, Todd Boulter to name a few I raced in Region 2. What sweet porpoising ride 28-32 mph.

Minister Beth Ann Chalk may be the most celebrated 60-J racer from Fishers Landing, NY (I think). (Craig Bowman can confirm). She started with the 5hp green tank.

A few years back we found my firstand my brothers last J boat, A Price Craft runabout at a swap meet, a guy was there and had a Yamato 80 on it...

[Matt Dagostino]

28-32 mph??.....................

Yea, my stepbrothers Billy and Greg Kneeland were in that pack also. Along with Marcell, France's boy, Dana Holt etc etc. We had matching Z-Crafts Frank Zorkan delivered to us at a race in Texas back in the early 70's. Each boat finished with hardware was in the $500 range. The 60J's were courtesy of Don Rosedud Roseberry. KayAnn had just 'retired' and we scooped up his motors.

On the hydro's we saw speeds just at 40 mph and my brothers would swap heats with Marcell, France and Dana on any given weekend. Even in those days 'good' J Hydros were very capable of blowing over and getting into all kinds of other trouble!

Frank Z rarely gets the credit he deserves for having been on the leading edge of hydro technology in the small hydro classes. Not to mention what a great asset he and Wanda have been to the sport for 40 plus years!

Go Z-Craft!!

[dholt]

Best I ever saw was 32 mph in JSR...36 mph in JSH.

One heck of a competitive class back in the day. Every bit as tough to win as any other SO class, considering who the drivers were and who the dads were. Lots of props...lots of testing...which wasn't easy considering how underpowered the engine was.

Best motor we ever had came from 1981 JSR champ Michael Sabin...Frank Cici's son. That put me over the top for '82 and '83.

And Darrell Sorensen's JSH boat we had was outstanding.

I echo Matt's words. Frank Z. and Wanda are giants in the sport.


Dana

[dwilderacer]

Oh, the 60's...

Me and my dad picked me up a complete runabout rig for @$500 at a Bakersfield race in '83. Turned out to be Scott Davidson's old Sorenson record boat. Won alot, right out of the box, and only cost me about four years allowance. I loved that boat but man did you have to plan in advance to turn one. Also didn't run too well at high alt. like Reno\Sparks.

[Jeff Brewster 59s]

memories

I can vividly remember sitting on the bank at our Oil City, Pa race with Tom Smith in 1974. We were watching my father and others hacksaw thru my transom so we could run the 60J we had just purchased from the Sweeney's. Ya, little Jimmy got big way too quick and they sold their engine.
I had been running the long tower Wizard the season before so this was a big step up!

[Jeff Brewster 59s]

Clarification on the propeller.....

I should have explained myself further when I stated the propeller was made by "George Price". This is not the George Price from the east coast and boat building fame of GP hydros.
This George Price was from the west coast and built propellers. Some of you old timers may remember the 74 Dayton stock nats when the Shuman brothers came from Washington and won both junior classes. George was reportedly their propeller guy. I didn't meet him personally because I was busy getting my butt kicked in JSR.

[Tony Staron]

I should have explained myself further when I stated the propeller was made by "George Price". This is not the George Price from the east coast and boat building fame of GP hydros.
This George Price was from the west coast and built propellers. Some of you old timers may remember the 74 Dayton stock nats when the Shuman brothers came from Washington and won both junior classes. George was reportedly their propeller guy. I didn't meet him personally because I was busy getting my butt kicked in JSR.

Jeff, That was my first race 1974 Nationals. I remember running JSR and making a donut at the Start /Finish line and finishing Dead Last. What a memory, but it gave me something to strive for. The only bad thing was that my hand hurting from holding the throttle for Three Very Long Laps.

Tony Staron 33F

[Brew56]

You won't find a 60J like this anywhere. It's been gone thru with great care as if one of us were going to race it next weekend. And the guy who put it together can build motors.

[Jeff Brewster 59s]

She might be going back to the basement tomorrow!

Bidding ends today!

p.s. does anyone remember how the engine used to 'shift' down the straights?

[dadams22]

I should have explained myself further when I stated the propeller was made by "George Price". This is not the George Price from the east coast and boat building fame of GP hydros.
This George Price was from the west coast and built propellers. Some of you old timers may remember the 74 Dayton stock nats when the Shuman brothers came from Washington and won both junior classes. George was reportedly their propeller guy. I didn't meet him personally because I was busy getting my butt kicked in JSR.

It was Joe Price.
You are right that Joe was the propeller man for the Shuman's. They dominated J stock back in the day. Craig Selvidge built the boats and taught the Shuman kids how to drive them. I remember stories of them testing over several days with Joe and Craig on hand to tweak both boats and props. Just running them until they had setup's for any condition and had all they could get out of it. Joe and Craig were probably the best J-A-B class builders/racer at that time.