What happened to all the pro-stock boats

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Jim,

Pretty much dead on, except for a few modifications by Kurt. No cheating, just tweaking.

That was always been a great class. It evolved to Factory 3 and finally to Cat light.There are many cat lights out there. It would be great if they could all come together and race. Had 6 in Biloxi this year. I think that was the season high count at a race.

 

[smokeybandit]

I need to thank everyone on here for keeping me smile over the past few weeks. My wife was diagnosed with very early stage breast cancer in August and she has been through 3 surgeries and just had her second round of chemo yesterday. Prognosis is great for no recurrence, but getting thorugh the upfront stuff really sucks.

Talking about racing always puts a smile on my face.

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

I need to thank everyone on here for keeping me smile over the past few weeks. My wife was diagnosed with very early stage breast cancer in August and she has been through 3 surgeries and just had her second round of chemo yesterday. Prognosis is great for no recurrence, but getting thorugh the upfront stuff really sucks.

Talking about racing always puts a smile on my face.

Best of luck for her Robert

 

[DAREDEVIL]

I need to thank everyone on here for keeping me smile over the past few weeks. My wife was diagnosed with very early stage breast cancer in August and she has been through 3 surgeries and just had her second round of chemo yesterday. Prognosis is great for no recurrence, but getting thorugh the upfront stuff really sucks.

Talking about racing always puts a smile on my face.

more power to you and your wife !!!!!!

 

[Ratickle]

I need to thank everyone on here for keeping me smile over the past few weeks. My wife was diagnosed with very early stage breast cancer in August and she has been through 3 surgeries and just had her second round of chemo yesterday. Prognosis is great for no recurrence, but getting thorugh the upfront stuff really sucks.

Talking about racing always puts a smile on my face.

Glad you enjoy it. I sincerely hope the smile on your face rubs off on her....

Best of luck to you both.

 

[Gladhe8er]

Just an anecdote or two to add about the Pro-stock class.

-My Dad was the first guy to run a cat in the class(1980)
-His 30 Shadow Cat "Black Duck" was faster with twin 2.4's vs. the other guys running triples
-in '82(I think), "Fox," a 30' Velocity showed up with the new Steve Stepp pad bottom. It had triple Johnsons on the back and was now the fastest boat in the class. The next race, my Dad showed up with a 3rd motor and everyone said "oh chit."
-Lots of different types of boats/motors ran in that class. "Special Edition" was a 30 Shadow cat with small blocks. "Rolling Thunder" was a 32 Cobra with I/O's. Then you had the Tritons show up around 82. They were faster with triple OB's vs. the Shadow but could not handle the rough water. When my Dad retired, I think he won 29 out of 41 races. A winning percentage that we believe still stands to this day.
-Black Duck was sold to Nicky Cutro in '85(who still services our family's 3 boats). He wrecked that thing many times(flipped, burned, stuffed) but still won more championships. We believe it is the winningest boat of all time.

 

[Big Time]

Just an anecdote or two to add about the Pro-stock class.

-My Dad was the first guy to run a cat in the class(1980)
-His 30 Shadow Cat "Black Duck" was faster with twin 2.4's vs. the other guys running triples
-in '82(I think), "Fox," a 30' Velocity showed up with the new Steve Stepp pad bottom. It had triple Johnsons on the back and was now the fastest boat in the class. The next race, my Dad showed up with a 3rd motor and everyone said "oh chit."
-Lots of different types of boats/motors ran in that class. "Special Edition" was a 30 Shadow cat with small blocks. "Rolling Thunder" was a 32 Cobra with I/O's. Then you had the Tritons show up around 82. They were faster with triple OB's vs. the Shadow but could not handle the rough water. When my Dad retired, I think he won 29 out of 41 races. A winning percentage that we believe still stands to this day.
-Black Duck was sold to Nicky Cutro in '85(who still services our family's 3 boats). He wrecked that thing many times(flipped, burned, stuffed) but still won more championships. We believe it is the winningest boat of all time.

Couple of running pics....

After the the boat caught fire a new deck was put on...you can tell the difference between the two...