Original 69' Mandella Longdeck Never Wet/Never Rigged

[Racey]

Update Here: http://www.***boat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137553
I'm putting this up cause i know a few of you old school v-drive guys will find it pretty cool. My dad built this boat working for Louis Brummett, it was built to be a marathon boat with 5 fuel tanks ~180 gallons of fuel at full capacity, it was just out of the mold when Louis had his accident in '68-'69, my dad quit racing after that and never completed the boat, even though he made most of the hardware for it, it's been sitting inside collecting dust ever since. I finally convinced him it was time to put it together so hopefully we have it together by summer. We have a 482 KB n/a Hemi with Bosch Sequential Mechanical injection, and Hilborn stacks, dry sump, 7900 rpm. 10dg Casale, Gear Steering (no cables!), I'm pretty excited about it, i will be posting updates as we make progress.
So Far here is what has originally been done to the boat:
Strut is Mounted
Prop shaft Hole is drilled
Mock-up V-drive has been fitted and all hardware for that is made
Cavitation Plates are mounted but got a little warped being polished on the boat so we have to fix that.
http://raceyindustries.com/Mandella/IsoFront.jpg
http://raceyindustries.com/Mandella/Front.jpg
http://raceyindustries.com/Mandella/Side.jpg
http://raceyindustries.com/Mandella/Rear.jpg
http://raceyindustries.com/Mandella/5thTank.jpg

[Kurtis500]

:jawdrop:
VERY NICE, Old school for sure.

[gn7]

very nice :rollside: :rollside: KB hemi with stacks huh, that is going to be one sweet piece

[old rigger]

I'm putting this up cause i know a few of you old school v-drive guys will find it pretty cool.
Could be the understatement of the year. What a beautiful boat, cool story too. Hope you have more pictures to post.

[707dog]

thats a bad azz classic bro..i dig it..good luck with the project!!

[sanger mike]

now that is just sick. real nice, love the old school. :crossx:

[Day-Go]

Nothing better than a Nostalgic boat with history and good story. My buddy runs a 66 Mandella. They make for awesome lake boats. Good Luck.

[GofastRacer]

That is sweet!..

[squirt'nmyload]

you have my vote for best 1st post of the year.......that thing is bad azz....love them colors

[BA Kurtis]

Very cool history and boat keep the updated pic's comin.