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Blackwater 53393

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  1. My laugh at the above post is because back in the 1980s I built one of those to use in the pits at big races to get around quickly between the several cars that I crew chiefed for. I used a ten hp Tecumseh engine and heavy duty centrifugal clutch built for go kart racing to power it. For fun, we put a drag slick on the back wheel, a kart header, a racing carb, and a disc brake on it. The guy that built the engine added a hotter cam and a higher compression piston, ported the block and installed a larger intake valve. We figured that that engine probably made twenty-five or more horsepower with the governor disabled. The mini bike might have weighed seventy pounds, (I could pick it up with one hand) and my boss/racing partner weighed a hundred and forty pounds soaking wet with a horseshoe in both back pockets! We used that thing for a couple of years around the drag strips, often to tow one or another of the cars through the staging lanes, but when we got the chance, ol’ Billy, my partner would make an 1/8 mile pass with that little monster. It did impressive burnouts and would run well over 70 mph!! I wish I had it now! We never knew how fast it would really go. Nobody ever had nerve enough to run it wide open through the quarter! I don’t know what ever happened to it. Three and four wheel ATVs got popular in the pits about that time and they were much safer for anyone to operate!!
  2. That apron’ll fit ya’s!!
  3. If I don’t mind, it don’t matter!!
  4. I would have put a laugh on the previous post, but it ain’t as funny as it is true!!
  5. For reasons stated elsewhere in the Saloon, I offer this one AGAIN today! We now return you to your regularly scheduled program!
  6. Never allowed in my house!!!
  7. As it says in my signature!! I LIKE MOST DOGS BETTER THAN I LIKE MOST PEOPLE!!
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