1960's Speedliner

[david bryan]

wade terill

if you have a picture of wade i would sure klike to see it

[Guest]

Randy Terrill

The photo inside is of Randy Terrill driving an unnumbered E Mod runabout.
Alan

[Guest]

Fresh restoration of a KF-9-1

Doug Kay has outdone himself with this old clasic Merc. It has been gone through completly and now is in first class shape. This engine was pulled up from the bottom of a lake in Washington state and I bought it from a friend in Montana. It has all the correct parts including the AJ-31 carbs. Doug even found a new original mercury rope for it. The next engine in line will be a Mark 40-H followed by a Mark 50. Hope you like the photos.
Alan

[Guest]

My first Speedliner

A very good friend and 36 class racer found this old photo of me in my first Speedliner. This boat was bought in 1955 with a brand new 20-H which I still have in its conversion condition. Have the original S/N tag that came with it. The photo is taken up in Lake George N.Y. testing for the 88 mile marathon that once was run there. If I remember correctly I got ejected from the boat 6 times during the race. Eech time I went through Indian Kettles I seemed to loose it and found myself swimming back to the boat. Guess I did not learn the lesson the first time.

Alan

[Tomtall]

Funny

If I remember correctly I got ejected from the boat 6 times during the race. Eech time I went through Indian Kettles I seemed to loose it and found myself swimming back to the boat. Guess I did not learn the lesson the first time.

That's funny as hell. Well at least you perfected getting it going again.

[oldracer]

BU Speedliner

Alan- You mean that you found water to run on worse that the Long Island Bays? LOL
Ye Olde Desert Geezer Al
P.S. How did Dave ride out the storm?

[A/B Speedliner]

Storm

Hi Al,
The storm is still going on, it will not leave. In Port Orange I only have had about 4 inches of rain but south of here they have up to 30inches in 24 hours.

I am working on the 5th 20H restoration this year. This is just like the old days when we would take them aprart after each race and then put back together for the next weekend of racing and testing. Only now the parts are hard to find. If you look at our web site www.aeroliner-boats.com you can see the fourth engine I completed a week or so ago. We have that and a JU rig for sale. This 5th engine will also be for sale as will one of the recently acquired Sid Crafts. Either the Sid or one of the 510 Model Speedliners we build would make a nice nostalgia racer.

In closing I have to ask how are you doing with your treatments, I you are improving.

Best regards
David

[Guest]

Lake George

Hi Al,
Good to see you on line again. Hope everything is working out and I will see you up at Mark Sutters this year. Lake George was a handful to race on. We made 4 laps in the early races and 6 laps of the course in later years and it totaled about 90 miles. Indian Kettles was a unique area where a shear rock face entered the lake on the east side and caused all wakes to bounce around which included the pleasure craft that were out there on the lake. You never knew which way the waves were comming from. My first race at Lake George was in 1956 when I went up with Nick Chatman. Back then we had100 plus folks showed up for the races. Come to think of it I dumped the boat testing that year and we had to rebuild the engine in the hotel during the night. Nick wanted to see if it would run so we started it hanging on the bed. Man did that cause problems! The noise wasn't bad but the smoke did us in. Oh well got to what you got to do. Here is a link I found about the race that give all the correct info. Enjoy the photos in the link.
http://www.utopianstate.com/modules....le=print&sid=9
Best Regards,
Alan

[oldracer]

Still Alive

Hi Dave and Alan- Glad to hear that the storm kind of skirted you. Remember some of the hurricanes back on Long Island in yesteryear? Never did run any marathons in the 60s, just closed course in New England and NJ. Alan, do you know what has happened of Nicky Chapman?
Dave-as far as treatments go, the cancer one is put aside while we try to see what will happen to the radiation burning which has caused such pain and missery. Tomorrow I visit another onocoligist for a second opinion. Alan, will not be able to get up to MI and boy would I like to go to Mark Suter's meet again. I would like to just have 1 old race engine much less than the 90+ Mark has and all looking just great. Who knows Dave, at the rate you and Alan are going, you might just end up with a collection like Mark's.
Keep Dry.
Ye Olde Desert Geezer Allen

[Guest]

Think I have found a 44xs block

Going through Harry Brinkmans parts I found this raw casting block set for a 44 cubic in engine. I beleive that this would allow machining it so that you could get minimum legal CC's. Anyone have any ideas. Hope you like the photos.
Alan

[crankbearing]

A little early

Going through Harry Brinkmans parts I found this raw casting block set for a 44 cubic in engine. I beleive that this would allow machining it so that you could get minimum legal CC's. Anyone have any ideas. Hope you like the photos.
Alan

Almost Alan, That block is the same as a 44XS but a little older as the provisions for the fuel pump are not on the crankcase. this could be 1978 - 1985 model block. But yes that seems to be one of the Mystery blocks that never left the factory unmachined. You will also notice the reed cage holes are not machined in as well. Which I assume was a cost savings as they never removed the threaded holes in the reed cages.

I see it still has a restriction that we remove for mod in all blocks.

Is that Harry's pencil lines on the block side sealing face or casting marks.

Good find and yes that would make a heck of a block for Doug to play with.

Regards,

[Guest]

Block

Hi Dave,
Yes it is marked up by Harry and I have his note card. I am sure I will find lots of things as I go through the parts. I found a B crankcase with Quincy mumps and a bunch of really intresting things. When I get it all sorted out I will post photos.

Alan

[Guest]

Raw Block

Dave,
The cast in part number is 960-7795. Maybe this will give you a better idea of the year.

Alan

[46torpedo]

I have only been able to get 12' lengths of Ply in 6mm from Condon, I have to scarf the 4mm Ply. I found a good source of 12' lenghts of 1" rough Mahoganhy that I mill down to a full 3/4" which is the exact size used in the orginal boats. The finished boat will be nearly the same as the original except we will nail the bottom. I someone would like one screwed,(pardon the expression) we can do that.

I am restoring a 12' 1946 speedliner trophy that was my dad's and you can clearly see the seams in the plywood. at about 8'. you can call steve Shromburg i think it is at seajay boats if you want any information. His dad designed many of the boats

[A/B Speedliner]

Plywood

I have been able to purchase Mahagony Plywood in 16 foot lengths from Boulter Plywood in Mass. They ship it by FedEx Freight and it is delivered right to my shop door.
We bought the plans and patterns from General Marine, the makers of Speedliner in august of 1965 that is years before the Schumbergs purchase the company. I met Steve at Muscatine,IA this spring and he had wondered wher the plans and patterns went for the M510 runabout. Now he knows. We have been building the boats since 1965, you can see our work at www.aeroliner-boats.com