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Keep the pics coming Jbear. Gee, no one's shown up at my place to work on my boat! BKH

A few more.

Backfoot-when ya need a little muscle

79, MM, Backfoot

Eddie, Chris, Reid

Wow!!!!! Can I be next.Looks great! New heads and intake?

John, Man does that engine look clean! How was the test drive?

Yeah Scott, you are next, except I mean you are next to work on the boat. Now that these guys have me fixed up so I ain't stock no more, I gotta get the outside fixed up to match. So I figured since I had this expert help on the engine I better look for a expert for the out side. Since I remember this fellow Ohio guy who really did an awesome job on this Torino........

john

MM: Thanks for jumping in with your pics!
Great day!

Scott: No test ride-We had a points problem. Problem was I had not replaced anything in 100 hours. But I did have a tune-up kit under the dash. Saved Chris from having to do something ugly to the dumb boat owner. Well he knew I never lift the motor box!

john

jbear wrote: Yeah Scott, you are next, except I mean you are next to work on the boat. Now that these guys have me fixed up so I ain't stock no more, I gotta get the outside fixed up to match. So I figured since I had this expert help on the engine I better look for a expert for the out side. Since I remember this fellow Ohio guy who really did an awesome job on this Torino........ john

OK, but I don't have a good looking team like you do.

break time!



back to work!



here's the one that did all the work!



we even made him do the clean up work!

It was a great day. So nice to meet everybody. We started out at SECC and we were all like kids in a candy store when we went walking through their warehouse. I, of course had to show the guys what a real ski boat (American Skier) looked like that was in the used boat section of the lot. We got to see MM's boat with the new K&N installed. Mark that thing rocks!!! Then the best surprise of all was Blondie willing to turn wrenches and gettin' dirty with the rest of us and then running for parts and eats. Mark, you better take really good care of her! You don't find 'em like that very often. 79 was the master of ceremonies and really knows his stuff when it comes to a CC with a Blue Oval under the cover. I was impressed! Thanks Chris! Keith, Mark and Reid were certainly just as impressive. They really are pa$$ionate about their boats and it's awesome that there are still people willing to help anyone in need and we all know John is certainly in need. Thanks also to John because if it wasn't for him, none of this would've happened. Then there's the free lunch, dinner and beer!!!!!! John, call me when you get ready to do a water test. I want a ride in that thing. I am glad that you got the interior cleaned up. I felt kinda bad about a few stains that I'm sure were hard to get out but we did the best we could to keep it clean.

I had a great time getting to know all of you and even play with something different than a Chevy for once! I learned quite a bit. We gotta do that again!

Looks like a pretty successful day. Let's see we got Wisconsin, N. Carolina, Ohio, Indiana and of course Florida represented there. Not a bad turnout.

Nice clean motor Jbear, guess I need to do that to mine one day, its still stock.

And that was awsome that all you guys, oh and blondie spent time to go help out

I need to adjust the carb anyway and install the choke stat too. Be sure and change that before you take it out otherwise it's going to run like crap.

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See "backfoot" taking a nap under the boat in pic #2..

John;
Yupper, you want to adjust all that stuff on the water. Then you know the thing is dialed in.

Mark, those are some awesome pics. DAMN that engine looks nice!!!!

All;
Look at what Chris lookin' at on the second pic that MM just sent!!! That's cla$$ic!