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  1. #1
    cyclone
    November 1966-craig breedlove on the cover...
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2083-med.JPG
    a two page spread ad from rudy ramos.. Rayson Craft was blowin' up.
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2084-med.JPG
    the fastest drag boat at the time, Citation II, a shovelnose hydro that Rich Hallett built, gets totalled at Oroville.
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2085-med.JPG
    here's the pic of the crash...
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2086-med.JPG

  2. #2
    cyclone
    Quicky Too a 17 1/2 foot Rayson Craft...
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2087-med.JPG
    for all the jet heads- one of the first ads for Berkeley's Packajet propulsion system...
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2088-med.JPG
    an ad for Kindsvater boats....
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2091-med.JPG

  3. #3
    cyclone
    howard ad...
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2092-med.JPG
    the classified section is full of full blown race boats for sale. this hemi-powered Wickens flatty was the most expensive one for sale at 10 grand. The rest of the ready to go racers could be had for 5-6 grand. those were the good old days.
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2094-med.JPG
    Shiada Boats ad...
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2093-med.JPG

  4. #4
    cyclone
    now here's a real sign of the times. lots on the water at havasu for 1650 bucks!!!
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2089-med.JPG
    Hallett Boats ad celebrating the win on sunday, sell on monday mantra. Check out the prices- a hull started at just $1350!
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2090-med.JPG

  5. #5
    Kindsvater Flat
    I would like to see an ad for the runner bottoms. I wonder if they were even advertised?
    Cool shit Cyclone!!

  6. #6
    fourspeednup
    Kindsvater ad...
    "...comes in your choice of metalflake colors!"
    Yeeeeaaaah!!!

  7. #7
    cyclone
    here's a 1966 ad for Roger's dad's company, Weiman Custom Boats, and one of his first jet-powered hulls?
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2109-med.JPG
    this is cool, its a page in the magazine with a boat drawing and a wish list of cool gear to cut out and paste onto the boat.
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2108-med.JPG
    Kalawain Boat's.....
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2105-med.JPG
    check out the vinyl-covered trailer bunks. pimp!
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2106-med.JPG

  8. #8
    cyclone
    jack drigger's 20-foot Rayson Craft, powered by a 427 and Berkeley 12JA ran 55-60mph..
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2101-med.JPG
    check out the pump-the whole thing is mounted inside of the boat with only the nozzle extending beyond the transom.
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2102-med.JPG
    a Hydro Flite flatbottom powered by 427/casale
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2103-med.JPG

  9. #9
    cyclone
    Sorcerer, an 18-foot Sanger...
    http://www.***boat.com/image_center/...G_2104-med.JPG
    and i'm spent. enough for now. more to come when i recover from all this photo posting.

  10. #10
    quiet riot
    cool stuff cyclone. Do any of you guys know a guy named Ray DeFir? He's a wealth of knowledge it seems up here in the northwest. Its been awhile since I talked to him but he restores some of these neat old boats and has a couple molds (rayson craft I think?) and still makes them on a custom order basis.
    Maybe oldrigger or someone might know him? He's done some neat stuff like water skiing the length of the lower columbia river and drag boat stuff.
    jd

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